Position Summary

Effectual Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. Effectual Cloud Architects are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to demonstrate Effectual's experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing customer infrastructure and container orchestration systems. You will utilize your expertise with Terraform Enterprise to write infrastructure as code, deploying Kubernetes clusters and all supporting services required of it. You have experience with Amazon EKS, EC2, Auto Scaling, and IAM to build highly available application deployments with Kubernetes and Rancher. You will report to a Cloud Squad Leader. Role requires Central Standard Time zone and ability to travel on-site to client’s location in Chicago area.

A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Cloud Architect

Cloud Architects lead delivery teams. On a given day, you may be asked to:

• Design a system in AWS to meet customer requirements.
• Meet with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress.
• Partner with an Engagement Manager to create a customer communication.
• Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach.
• Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Effectual's expertise and experience to a potential customer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Guide the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients.
• Build solutions in AWS (e.g., Landing Zones, container platforms, application hosting environments, data storage solutions) using multiple AWS services like Control Tower, EKS/ECS, S3, Transit Gateway, EC2.
• Design solutions, development and deployment plans, and high-level solution validation processes for execution by delivery teams
• Prioritize and sequence infrastructure projects, supporting project work breakdown activities, removing roadblocks, and collaboratively resolving disagreements related to solution design.
• You work with technology management to refine project management processes to improve technical delivery efficacy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of continual, prior experience working as a Cloud Architect consisting, in parallel, of at least:
• 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure and 3+ years building AWS infrastructure, including at least:
  • 1+ year of infrastructure as code experience (Terraform)
  • 1+ year of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite)
• Knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node)
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• AWS certifications (e.g., Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate, Solution Architect Associate)
• Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS
• Implement static and dynamic code analysis tools within CI/CD pipelines
• Use code analysis tools such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, Dynatrace

Company Offered Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our employee benefit programs:

• Medical, dental, and vision health insurances,
• Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances,
• 401k with Company match
• Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
• Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
• These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time. 

Salary Range for this position: $111,000-$170,000

"Salary ranges provided are for informational purposes only and may vary depending on factors such as experience, qualifications, and geographic location. The final salary offer will be determined based on the candidate's skills and alignment with the role requirements."

 

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended anytime at the sole discretion of the Employer. Duties and responsibilities are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other