What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Rackner?
Rackner is a cloud-native consultancy which enables digital transformation for large organizations through the newest in distributed technologies. We're laser focused on end-to-end application development, DevSecOps, AI/ML, and systems architecture, wrapped up in a methodology focused on cloud-first and cost-effective innovation.
Title: Cloud Architect
Location: Remote
Job Summary:
Rackner is looking for a Cloud Architect to join an existing team of DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects who are building out reusable Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, to be deployed in a large enterprise environment. The engineer should have experience using Terraform and AWS in order to contribute to this existing architecture.
Essential Functions:
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS cloud architecture using Terraform
- Communicating these solutions in a professional way to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborating with other engineers and members of the team using tools like git, in a secure, effective and scalable way
Minimum Education and/or Experience:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent relevant work experience
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect is a plus
Requisite Skills/Abilities:
- Highly experienced with AWS
- Advanced networking, VPC, peering, and subnet experience
- Gitlab CI experience
- Terraform experience, including writing custom modules and collaboration at scale
- Top notch Linux skills
- SRE experience for a mid to large enterprise system
- General cloud architecture experience with Azure or GCP is a plus, but not required
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker a plus
- General DevOps Experience a plus
- Knowledge of SQL databases and basic coding skills in Java, Python, Go, C or a similar language are desirable, as is experience with microservices architectures
- Security framework experience (RMF, DISA STIG, CIS Benchmarks, etc) are nice to have
- Software Engineering background is nice to have
Core Competencies:
- Customer Service & Professional Communication
- Building Relationships
- Business Knowledge / Organizational Acumen
- Self-Motivation/Self Starter
- Leading Self and Others
Benefits:
- 401K with employer matching 100 percent up to 6 percent
- 15 Days PTO (Paid Time Off)
- 10 Days Holiday
- Health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
- Basic Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Weekly Pay schedule (Fridays)
