AWS Solution Architect – Cloud Foundations

Who We Are

We are a full-service software and software services company that builds long-term relationships with our clients. Our team consists of outstanding professionals, highly experienced in designing, building, and supporting software. We see ourselves as a build-as-a-service provider who follows a repeatable business pattern that can be applied to a variety of platforms and verticals. Having a culture built on outcomes and delivery at the core of the business, Capstone is providing its customers with a complete suite of services for software development, system analysis, integration, implementation, and support, as well as the option to engage a single team to perform all the services they require.

Capstone Integrated Solutions is currently seeking qualified candidates for an AWS Solution Architect who have deep foundational experience especially in landing zone and related services. This is a 100% remote role.  We are an AWS Partner and have completed many projects based on AWS technology.

Who You Are

• As an AWS Solutions Architect, you will work directly with our customers to accelerate their projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
• You will design and build AWS Foundational services.
• You will own the technical relationship with the customer and operate as their trusted advisor. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide.
• Develop areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes.
• Work as a “Hands-on” team member as needed

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification – must be verifiable
• Minimum 5+ years hands on as an AWS Solution Architect 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Likes to solve interesting, and challenging, technology problems
• Working efficiently and collaboratively within a team of professionals
• Conducting AWS Landing Zone Assessments, Well Architected Framework Reviews and presenting findings and recommendations to executives and technical managers.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and microservices design.
• Understanding of the shared responsibility model in AWS.
• Proven track record in major enterprise-level projects.
• Experience designing complex distributed systems environments.
• Strategic thinking about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills at various organizational levels.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Independent, self-motivated, and thorough worker.
• Demonstrated teamwork skills, innovation, creativity, and strong problem-solving abilities.
• Knowledge of architecting, deploying, troubleshooting, and with the operation of highly scalable solutions. Experience working directly in customer implementations is highly desirable
• Ability to communicate fluently in English, in technical and business settings (verbal and written).
• Inquisitive and passionate about learning, and driven to succeed
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundation integration
• Experience with AWS Control Tower, landing zones, best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access and account structure. 
• 4+ years of experience in designing and implementing large enterprise public cloud environments.

• Deep understanding of AWS services (IAM, VPCs, Landing Zone, EC2, ECS, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.).
• Ensure Security-by-Design is integral to every app deployed into AWS.
• Apply enterprise monitoring standards to each AWS app deployment.
• Manage Intranet FAQs, user guides, knowledgebase, standards, and build documents for AWS Foundations integration.
• Identify and implement new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technologies, including best practices, guidelines, and design patterns.
• Perform cost-benefit analysis to determine the best system architecture (software, hardware, internal cloud, externally hosted, etc.).
• Mentor engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene.
• Partner with peer infrastructure teams to provide enterprise-class AWS integration.
• Design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns to aid Cloud Engineers in creating standards-based designs
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience working directly with AWS Professional Services is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

 

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Position Type: 1099 Independent Contractor
• Work Location: Remote

 

Capstone Integrated Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and safe environment for all employees. Experience comes in many forms, and we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly align with what we have listed. We look forward to hearing from you. 

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