Solution Architect (Delivery, 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

• Lead sessions with business and technical experts to deeply understand their needs, solicit and document requirements

• Consult and advise engineers, architects and executives, help define the right choice of technology stack for the solution of business problems

• Create SOWs and/or provide a structured and complete informational background to the engineering team

• Design and articulate major aspects of highly-scalable, reliable, and performant technical software solutions that leverage AWS cloud platform to automate business solutions

• Handle potential trade-offs occurring during the implementation phase, make decisions and suggest the right course of action, establish patterns

• Handle the strategic vision, align roadmaps and requirements. Build and maintain technical trusted advisor relationships with all levels in an organization, from technical experts to senior executives

• Accelerate innovation by detecting high-impact, repeatable solutions for enterprises, iteratively deploying them and representing ClearScale capabilities in AWS Cloud Solutions to customers and the community

• Authorship of technical publications including blog entries, case studies and ebooks

Qualifications

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

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering/scientific field or 5+ years of designing and developing services or applications within an organization

• 3+ years consulting experience and track record of helping customers with their needs or comparable experience working with internal customers in a product company

• Understanding fundamentals of different project management methodologies and frameworks (covering Agile, Lean Development, classical waterfall) applicable for custom software engineering

• 5+ years experience building enterprise software solutions

• 3+ years hands-on experience working with AWS cloud platform

• Expertise in core AWS services (i.e. network, compute, storage, database, security, management and governance)

• Experience designing and implementing modern cloud-based applications using event-driven and NoSQL technologies (e.g. Lambda, Kafka, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, ActiveMQ, SQS, EventBridge, Redis/Memcached)

• Experience with containerised environments and/or serverless applications, understanding of architecture patterns, area of applicability, restrictions and typical problems

• Experience building fault-tolerant and no-downtime distributed cloud systems

• Experience using and adapting to new technologies

• Comfort with assuming high-profile leadership roles in demanding, highly-visible customer situations

• Strong listening, written and oral communications skills in English

Additional things to be considered as a plus:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or ability to acquire it in 3 months

• Experience with enterprise workloads migration to AWS platform

• Experience working with secured data (e.g. PHI, classified data)

• Deep understanding of column, key-value, document or graph databases

• Experience giving public technical presentations

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