Job description

Anexinet, based in Blue Bell, PA, specializes in digital business transformation. We empower our clients to grow their customer base and improve workforce efficiency by envisioning, developing, and operating next generation technology solutions. Our core expertise is in digital applications, analytics, and hybrid IT, enabling businesses to rapidly transform. Our clients partner with Anexinet to support the full lifecycle of your next generation digital business. Our people come and stay at Anexinet because we are a technology focused, team-oriented organization with a culture that is second to none as reflected by our 10 consecutive Best Place to Work awards from the Philadelphia Business Journal.

The Cloud Architect is expected to have proven experience in building and delivering highly complex platform and strong technical background, and experience with modern technologies and leveraging best practices in the areas of open source tech solutions, and in managing software development and agile methodologies. In addition, working with the Engineering Manager - Cloud And DevOps, this leader will build and lead a highly technical team of developers and engineers.

For our AWS Cloud Architect, candidates should be local to the Greater Philadelphia area and comfortable with onsite presence in Malvern, PA 1-2 days per week.

• Under the direction of the Cloud Infrastructure Manager, this role is expected to apply leading edge practices to solve business challenges and develop a culture of high performance, urgency, and productivity.
• Embrace the vision to lead the transformation of currently leveraged outsourced application development model to an in-house model to include development of key business and customer facing solutions.
• Serve as the strategist who researches public and private Cloud technologies and frameworks, and creates reference architecture and implementations for the Cloud Automation engineers to follow.
• Completely own the technical delivery of the automated provisioning of cloud and cloud native application infrastructure stack using GitOps and Kubernetes Operators.
• Serve as the Product Owner of the entire Enterprise Cloud Provisioning Stack.
• Work closely with multiple DevOps teams to define/author infrastructure and deployment requirements; recommend, challenge and validate Cloud services to meet new application/product needs.
• Identify and recommend new technologies and optimize current technologies for cost in the CubeSmart cloud environments.
• Author clear and specific requirements, detailed design, conduct code reviews and approve pull requests for Automation implementations and mentor the team on cloud automation best practices.
• Translate complex functional specifications to detail technical designs regarding Test Case, Testing Automation, User Interfaces (UI), Custom Software Applications, middleware technologies, API, API orchestration/choreography, deployment artifacts, artifact packaging, and application monitoring automation, logging, and performance metrics.
• Responsible for compliance to ensure privacy, security of data/information on cloud platform/applications.
• Servant leader for the team, clearing their obstacles, study how to make every team member successful and stay ahead of the team to avoid unpleasant surprises for the team thus actively ensuring delivery within the schedule and allocated budget.
• Lead and play a leadership role in sprint planning meetings to ensure that the team understands their objectives and has committed to completing their work on an agreed-upon timeline.
• Own the development environment, development tooling strategy and toolchains for effective and efficient delivery of software in support of the chosen methodologies.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence with a focus on performance, scalability, privacy, and security.
• Define, create and serve as the custodian of the Cloud Automation and DevOps implementation Strategy.
• Ability to collaborate and hold the various development team members accountable for compliance to the Enterprise Technical Standards and Guidelines.

Qualifications

• At least 6-8 years’ experience building, leading, managing and supporting Cloud Platforms supporting omni channel commerce platforms.
• Software development experience a must with demonstrated affinity for continuous learning specifically in the technology domain and how to leverage it for building great reliable products.
• 2 years minimum experience developing Infrastructure as Code, TerraForm or AWS CloudFormation. TerraForm Highly Preferred.
• Hands-on experience with designing, building, and supporting microservices infrastructures in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Experience building containerized applications using GitOps, K8s, Service Mesh, K8s operators.
• Service oriented leader who possesses a true 24×7 support and service mentality.
• Experience leading and mentoring Cloud Engineering Teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field preferred or equivalent education/experience. Masters’ degree preferred.
• Full knowledge of agile delivery, DevOps cycle, Release Management planning.
• Should possess technical experience in cloud infrastructure design and operation to recognize the quality, reliability, and scalability of your team’s work.
• Experience designing and engineering enterprise infrastructure with AWS native services.
• AWS Solution Architect Associate or Professional certification.
• Ability to work with both senior management level executives and development teams.
• Experience in working on Agile Scrum operations and tools area (Build & Release Automation).
• Strong shell scripting experience.
• Demonstrate hands-on and fluency in at least one complete stack (Java SpringBoot or JavaScript or Python with REST API, Graph QL, SQL, NoSQL, Graph DB’s, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience with either Test Driven development or Behavior Driven development with a clear understanding of the tool stack. Expertise in unit test, building Integration, smoke and regression testing suite, code coverage process, and pipeline setup.
• Experience using a project management/ticketing tool such as JIRA.
• A product mentality - the ability to define goals, consider trade-offs, prioritize, defend decisions, and execute.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills.
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal.
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, and facilitating meetings.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: From $90.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
The health and safety of our employees and their families is paramount. During the COVID-19 situation our employees are currently working remotely. Once the shelter in place requirements are lifted we will continue to protect our people when in our office

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Malvern, PA 19355: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Cloud: 5 years (Required)
• Cloud architecture: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Malvern, PA 19355

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