Principal Architect (AWS, remote)

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About the Company

ClearScale LLC (headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA) — AWS Premier Consulting Partner, has been offering a full range of professional cloud computing services for more than 10 years, including architecture design, DevOps automation, refactoring and cloud-native application development, integration, migration and support using the best advanced technologies. Our team consists of 100+ certified architects, engineers and developers and has deep experience and hundreds successful projects. We help large Fortune 500 companies, mid-size businesses and Silicon Valley startups successfully implement ambitious and complex cloud projects to become industry leaders.

ClearScale is growing quickly and there is high demand on the services we provide. Clients are attracted by our deep experience with Big Data, Containerization, Serverless Infrastructure, Microservices, IoT, Machine Learning, DevOps and more.

Due to the growing projects needs we are looking for a Solution Architect who likes to find solutions to real-world software problems and challenges.

Our team works 100% remotely all around the globe, we trust each other, so we don't watch our employees through webcams and do not track their typing or screenshots as many other remote companies do. The professional reputation of engineers and developers in our community is of the highest value.

This is a unique opportunity for you to make a big impact, enjoy competitive compensation, work on a wide variety of projects for clients across multiple industries, and work alongside some of the best minds in the cloud

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Job Overview

ClearScale is looking for a hands-on Solution Architect (SA) to participate in various custom solution and product development projects. Most of the projects led by ClearScale are AWS-centric. You will become a part of the distributed engineering team, responsible for preparing infrastructure, design solution architecture, leverage a full cycle of solution engineering, workload optimization, and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep relationships with Enterprise and Mid-Market customers and act as their trusted technical advisor

• Partner with the sales team, and help execute a sales strategy

• Develop business cases, roadmaps and project proposals for cloud adoption, migration, transformation and innovation initiatives. SOWs capture the customer's requirements, propose solutions that meet their business and technical needs, and estimate the effort to deliver specific results

• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and ways cloud technology drives innovation. Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud

• Act as the technical liaison between customers and our internal teams during the presales process

• Lead requirements gathering meetings, evaluate and recommend third party tools, cloud technologies and processes ensuring highest quality solutions

• Support Professional Services Delivery team with hands-on projects delivery to customers in the roles of a project technical leader, technical liaison and/or subject matter expert

• Maintain knowledge of Customer’s projects, manage critical issues on the account, support the overall growth through a strong technical advisor role

• Educate internal teams and customers, share best practices, build relationships with technical leaders across AWS and ClearScale

• Collaborate with internal teams, including Technical Leads and Sales to contribute to ClearScale’s offerings by understanding technology developments, competition, and overall market direction.

• Contribute to company’s publications, run customer workshops and webinars, contributing to, white papers, conferences, and industry events.

Qualifications

ClearScale expects successful candidate to have most of the following qualifications and skills:

• Worked directly in the software or IT industry for 10+ years, preferably as a DevOps, SysOps or Solutions Architect

• Experience working in Professional Services, Consulting and/or Outsourcing companies

• 5+ years of experience building complex AWS solutions and/or proven knowledge of the AWS platform and services

• 5+ years of customer-facing (Pre-Sales) experience, preferably in the mid-market and/or enterprise space

• 5+ years in a customer/partner facing role or extensive experience working with internal business leads to develop solutions. Experience executing business transformation projects, including technical delivery, team leadership and senior client relationship management

• Good understanding of cloud native technologies

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, service-offerings, and technical challenges

• Broad knowledge and experience with DevOps-oriented processes and toolsets

• Ability to set priorities, goals and time tables to achieve maximum productivity

• Strong public speaking and writing skills

• Excellent troubleshooting skills

• Understand Agile & Lean principles

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly; Demonstrable interest in emerging technologies

You’ll be a great fit if:

• You love being a part of a dynamic, and agile team that encourages you to learn and grow

• You desire to work with some of the world’s top brands

• You love finding solutions to interesting problems and figuring out how things work

• You welcome having autonomy with complex tasks

• You are passionate about using your experience and expertise to inspire the team

We offer:

• High compensation paid every two weeks in USD
• Completely REMOTE work: we trust our employees to work from anywhere they please
• Flexible schedule consisting of 40 hours per week, Slack and Zoom for communication
• Bureaucracy-free environment
• We adore change-makers and creators so you'll be able to make influence to our processes
• Highly skilled project teams consisting of 3-5 members (senior level professionals)
• Wise projects rotation
• Paid AWS certifications