AWS Architect & Developer

Capstone Integrated Solutions is a comprehensive services provider. Our team consists of outstanding professionals, highly experienced in designing, building, and supporting retail 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. 

Who You Are and What You'll Do: 

Capstone Integrated Solutions is looking for an AWS Architect & Developer to join their growing Cloud Transformation team. As an AWS services partner, and also a developer of our own solutions that we bring to market, Capstone engages in a variety of projects with high profile clients utilizing cutting-edge technologies. If you have AWS cloud expertise, strong development skills, and the ability and desire to lead the design and implementation of cloud-native architectures, we’d love to hear from you. 

The Job: 

As an AWS Architect & Developer, you will engage with and enable Clients and Partners of Capstone to achieve extensive business value by migrating and modernizing technology landscapes to AWS and helping them accelerate innovation. You will collaborate with a multiple party team to design modern target architectures optimized for business agility, innovation, performance, resiliency, cost, and more. The ideal candidate must be able to: 

• Create, articulate, and position an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to AWS 
• Define and execute technical migration and modernization strategies by working with highly technical teams 
• Deliver modern architectures such as micro services and event driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities. 
• Engage with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations teams at the customer and identify repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration 
• Work closely with Client and Partner teams to streamline their delivery of business solutions on the AWS platform.  This includes automation of builds and helping with adopting new cloud services 

• Identify critical and emerging technologies, techniques, tools, data sources, and platforms in the infrastructure engineering field, including cloud-based solutions, that support and extend predictive modelling/machine learning solutions 
• Work as a “Hands-on” team member as needed 

“Must Haves”- Experience you need to succeed: 

• Must have at least two AWS certifications with at least one being a Specialty or Professional level. 
• Undergraduate degree or 4+ years of experience in software development, design, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications in lieu of no Bachelor’s degree or equivalent military experience 

• 3+ years’ experience as a Cloud Software Developer, Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and development of full stack custom and commercial off the shelf applications. 
• 2+ years’ AWS experience required with hands-on implementation of AWS Development, Architecture, Security, administration, and engineering. 
• Experience writing serverless code (Lambda) with NodeJS, Python or GO 
• Experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to the AWS cloud 
• Experience in a range of migration discovery, profiling, migration automation, and operations technologies and tools 

• Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support to include the following: experience migrating, architecting, operating on premises or cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies 
• Experience providing best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects along with experience mapping business objectives to application/architectural requirements 
• Experience evaluating cloud application requirements and making recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS 
• Experience with infrastructure as code/ using deployment automation technologies; Terraform and Cloud Formation 
• Experience using Docker or other web server technology in a Linux environment 

• Experience with Kubernetes (deploying/hosting runners, applications) 
• Experience with CI/CD systems, and integration with code dependency scans 

“Our Culture”:

At Capstone, the central principles that we all adhere to, and the glue that holds us together, are our keystones.  Our four keystones are:

• "A Customer Obsessed, Delivery Focused, Culture"
  • We’re driven to exceed our customer’s expectations by listening, leading, solving problems, and delivering what we promise
  • We aim to be the most dependable and trusted partner serving our customers. TRUST = CONSISTENCY x TIME
• "A Culture of Learning and Sharing"
  • We value “Lifetime Learners”; those who are hungry, competitive, curious, and self-motivated in their pursuit of knowledge.
  • Personal and professional growth depends on teamwork and continuous learning. By sharing knowledge, skills, ideas, and effort, we benefit our customers, ourselves, and our communities.
  • We recognize that the thoughts, feelings, and backgrounds of others are as important as our own. Everyone has something to learn and everyone has something they can teach.
  • Knowledge and ability are valued. Sharing knowledge and helping others learn new capabilities is valued exponentially.
• "A Culture of Growth and Scalability"
  • Growth comes from not establishing barriers in your role. “Cross functional skill sets are valued and help us deliver to our customers in a truly agile fashion. It comes with understanding that when asked to do something new, you will need support, have questions, and make some mistakes along the way.
  • The most elegant solution is a simple solution. Simple doesn’t mean easy. It’s often more difficult to break a complex problem down into simple, scalable terms. We don’t appreciate, or value, over architected solutions or superfluous coding.
  • Time is one of our most precious commodities.  Scalability implies being respectful of this and passionate about making the most efficient use of each and every one of our team members time.
• "All Work is Strategic"
  • No matter how small a project or assignment appears, every single engagement is an opportunity for us to prove ourselves, build trust, and develop relationships that last and grow
  • Every task, interaction, and commitment matters
  • Big or small, we execute our plans and strategies with focus, commitment, and passion

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