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Cloud Platform Architect
Seattle, WA
Contract
Job Description:
· The person in this role primarily supports sales activities from a technical perspective as well as deliver on technology projects.
· This person will design & deliver client solutions for a particular platform and should possess specialization & expertise in interfaces, components and design patterns used to develop cloud native platforms.
· Lead the platform implementation, offer both conceptual & practical solutions.
· Have a deep background in Java.
· Contribute to assets/offerings & thought leadership.
· Experience in messaging and integration technologies and components.
· Knowledge of event driven architecture, Messaging technologies. (e.g. JMS, RabbitMQ, SQS, AMQP etc).
· Have at least 10 years of experience in design and development of distributed software applications and cloud-native platforms.
· Primary Skills: Java, Spring, Cloud, Microservices, Rest API, AWS, Azure, Spring, SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, API Gateway, API Engineering, NoSQL, JMS, Hadoop.
Qualifications
Must demonstrate expertise in the following areas:
1) Cloud-Native Application Design and Architecture (Must be strong in this area):
· Actual experience in building cloud applications, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS, e.g. OpenShift, CloudFoundry) using at least one of the following IaaS platforms: AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud. Knowledge of and experience in design of microservice-based solutions.
· Experience in designing load-balanced, auto-scalable, highly available, and secure architecture in cloud environment. API Managers/Gateways experience is a big plus.
2) Data Engineering & Analytics:
· Big Data technologies experience (Apache Spark, Hive/HDFS, NiFi).
· Machine Learning and/or Data Analytics platforms (Splunk, Pivotal Analytics, Kognito Analytics)
3) Development and Operations Engineering desired:
· Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for large and small teams... Docker experience is a plus.
4) Other skills required to support sales activities:
· Good communicator and collaborator with customers and stakeholders -- Demonstrable experience in explaining problem space to the customers and working with them in building technical solution architecture.
· Build presentations and illustrations explaining complex concepts to the stakeholders.
· Selling Ideas and creative solutions. Experience with costing solutions or budgeting. Demonstrable leadership experience.
Additional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- 10 years of experience in design and development of distributed software applications and cloud-native platforms
- Deep background in Java
- Experience in messaging and integration technologies
- Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging technologies
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