AWS Solutions Architect

Date: April 3, 2019

Title: AWS Sr. Solutions Architect, Aritex IT

Location: United States – Chicago, IL – Remote 

Job Summary

You’re a forward thinker, well versed in the latest technology, top in your field and ready to spread your wings. You are seeking an opportunity to work with others like yourself in a high energy environment where your leadership and experience are welcomed and appreciated.

At Aritex we move at the speed of innovation and have fun doing it. We are a consulting and managed services company that specializes in delivering high value, business impacting solutions through the integration and development of the latest technology for AI, ML, Data & Analytics, DevOps and Cloud Transformation. As an organization, we are quickly positioning ourselves to be one of the most forward-thinking cloud consulting firms out there. 

We seek top-notch talent, foster open and honest communications and allow you the freedom to be everything you can be. As individuals we are exceptional, as a team we are unstoppable. Our equity compensation model is as innovative and exciting as the cloud services market we serve.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for working cross-functionally to understand architecture needs by multiple business units. To be effective in this position, you must feel comfortable owning the entire architecture development process from inception to completion. You will have a continual thirst for knowledge and be a big thinker ready for challenges.  

Responsibilities

·      Lead architecture initiatives from inception to completion with customers and partners

·      Collaborate with business users to create architecture in alignment with business need

·      Coordinate delivery and sales teams to ensure alignment and at times participate in delivery activities

·      Continually develop and hone deep expertise across AWS technologies

·      Lead customer facing workshops, evangelize best practices and higher engineering standards

·      Champion the adoption of reusable architecture assets to improve efficiency

·      Produce documentation to aid in the understanding of existing architecture solutions

Preferred Qualifications

·      Hands on AWS experience and AWS Professional-level certifications preferred or should be willing to obtain upon joining Aritex 

·      Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills

·      Ability to demonstrate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

·      Bachelor's or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics

·      8+ years implementation / consulting experience 

·      Engineering background: SOLID, Functional Programming, CQRS, Event Sourcing are the main design principles of your life

·      Passion and hands-on expertise with any of the following areas: Streaming Architectures, Microservices, DevOps, Machine Learning

·      Advanced knowledge of highly available infrastructure and design

·      Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure in dev, pre-prod and production environments

·      In-depth understanding of enterprise server, virtualization, network, storage, monitoring and application technologies 

·      Experience with Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or virtualized environment, preferably VMware technologies

·      Familiarity with orchestration concepts, infrastructure-as-code and tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible 

·      Familiarity with disaster recovery and resiliency

Culture & Benefits

At Aritex, we celebrate individuality, diversity and the contributions each and every person brings to the table as a core component of our culture. Enablement and autonomy are critical to our success and through leadership. We maintain this thought process to build benefits package that will best support the needs of the team we employ.