Infrastructure Solution Cloud Architect

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Are you naturally curious? So are we at MKS. Our collective curiosity drives us to be an innovation leader in many industries. Our products drive technology advancements across a wide range of applications such as 5G, augmented/virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, clean drinking water and space exploration. We are a team of collaborators who value fresh thinking and believe in mutual respect, constructive candor, diversity and inclusion. As a valued and trusted partner to our customers, we are continually pushing the boundaries of possibility. We believe in creating technology that transforms our world and are looking for like-minded individuals to join our team. If this is appealing to you, we want to meet you.

We are looking for an exceptional Infrastructure-Solution Cloud Architect (AWS) who

works with MKS Teams, IT, and business stakeholders to effectively create solutions in AWS cloud. Implements a cloud first strategy that aims to enhance business value and acquire new opportunities. Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions on cloud as well as:

• Understand and develop an Architecture framework with focus on Cloud Services.
• Negotiate and develop system and application solutions in Cloud migration and Cloud based projects.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions on cloud platform.
• Implement & manage cloud-based solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, IAM, etc.
• Works with stakeholders to support existing and new Cloud solutions
• Keeps up to date with AWS products, solutions, market, and trends and evaluate new IT opportunities.
• Build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders to identify internal opportunities.
• Identify opportunities and find solutions that bring value to the company in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Design policies and guidelines related to cloud architecture
• Create operational documentation for cloud solutions
• Participate to architectural board, negotiating and evaluating opportunities for the business and IT.
• Coach, train, and mentor internal and external engineers to follow IT Architecture.
• Develop and maintain the Architecture Repository
• Monitor and review utilization trends for cost optimization
• Develops and implements a business continuity model
• Troubleshoot architectural issues that arise in a cloud environment
  
  

What will you bring to the team, along with your curiosity:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/Information Systems or other relevant disciplines
• More than 5 years of experience in progressive infrastructure/software engineering domain
• Experience of working on cloud infrastructure and solutions (possibly AWS).
• Knowledge of Terraform and Landing zone
• Strong systems thinking, pragmatic and creative problem solving and analytical skills.
• IT Architecture certification (e.g., Togaf).
• Infrastructure Security experience
• Knowledge of Cloud best practices and guidelines.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Proactive team player who is ready to learn, help and enjoys working with their teammates.
  
  

Desired Qualifications / professional experience:

• AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Lambda, Ansible & Chef experience.
• Experience (certification) with Project Management/Agile development methodologies.
• Quality management certifications (such as Lean or Six Sigma).
• Experience working for large scale enterprise applications.
• AWS or Terraform certification would be added advantage.
• 3+ years’ experience with scripting, especially IaC: Terraform, PoweShell or Linux Shell
• AWS Exp: ECS/Fargate, S3, EC2, ECR, Policies, IAM, Monitoring, Load balancer, CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS etc.
• DevOps framework experience
• Orchestration frameworks: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience in Configuration management: GIT, GITHUB, Codecommit.
• Databases: Oracle/SQL Relation Db or Non-Relational database like Mongo.
• Experience in modern software development languages (TypeScript, Python, Perl).