AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Department: 166 Cloud Services

Location: Remote, Ireland

Description

AWS Cloud Solution Architect is one of the most critical roles in SaaS Cloud Operations (CloudOps) teams. The position is responsible to provide a broad view of how EIS deploys customer environments into AWS and ensure those deployments they're as standard as possible using Infrastructure as Code (IoC) practices.

Understanding that EIS SaaS Platform uses a multi-cloud strategy, ideally this candidate while focused on AWS has a strong background in at least one other cloud platform such as Azure.

This position designs AWS solutions in cooperation with the customer, team leads, expert engineers as well as other relevant stakeholders in the company.

While this position focuses on AWS, EIS maintains a multi-cloud strategy which requires this position to have deep understanding how to best design AWS/Azure solutions that are standard as possible across all customers and across all cloud providers: solutions are generic/common as possible across different cloud providers and unified across all customers.

After releasing the initial solution, diagrams and documentation must be reviewed and discussed with stakeholders - and that these solutions are also regularly reviewed to ensure that they are current, secure and cost-effective.

Where customer-specific implementations are required, the architect ensures that any customer-specific solutions are documented fully and makes every effort to take full advantage of established best practices to ensure consistency across all customers.

Ideally this person holds AWS Architect Certifications (or similar).

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud-based solutions using AWS services to meet business objectives and requirements.
• Develop architecture designs, cloud migration strategies, and implementation plans.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools, and platforms to enhance our cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project requirements and translate them into scalable and secure cloud architectures.
• Ensure best practices for cloud security, cost optimization, and performance tuning are followed.
• Provide guidance and support to development teams in implementing cloud-based applications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud infrastructure issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Stay current with AWS service updates, new features, and emerging technologies.
  
  

On-Call Duty:

• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to provide support outside of regular business hours.
• Respond to critical incidents and service outages promptly and effectively.
• Work with the team to implement preventative measures and minimize downtime.
• Provide support for urgent issues that arise in the cloud infrastructure during on-call periods.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional level certification.
• Experience building and deploying AWS resources using IaC - Terraform.
• Proven experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
• Proven experience and strong understanding of cloud networking including VPCs, security groups, load balancer design, VPN.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable and highly available cloud architectures.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools such as CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, DataDog or similar.