Solutions Architect (Cloud)

Solutions Architect (Cloud)

Client Location: Chicago, IL

Type: 6+ month Contract (likely extensions beyond that)

Note: This position is 100% remote working CST time zone hours. Must be located in the US.

Responsibilities: This individual will work closely with data engineering, data product managers and data science teams to meet data requirements of various initiatives. As a Solution Architect, you will work on the creation of Enterprise Data Platform shaping and building new analytical solutions to deploy in support of our internal clients. You’ll help to create solutions to drive the next wave of innovation. You’ll recommend tools and capabilities based on your research of the current environment and knowledge of various on-premises, Cloud-based, and hybrid resources.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience within the field of application/platform engineering or related technical work including business intelligence, analytics.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS Senior Cloud Data Engineering, management, maintenance, or architecting, implementing best practices and industry standards.
• Experience with data warehousing platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift or similar.
• Strong knowledge and established experience with AWS services including but not limited to: S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Cloud Formation, Kinesis, Data Pipelines, EMR, Step Functions, VPC, IAM, and Security Groups.
• Experience with DB technologies (e.g., SQL, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience with CI/CD tools, pipelines, and scripting for automation. (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline tools, Cloud formation and Terraform).
• High degree of knowledge in IAM Roles and Policies
• Strong knowledge configuring AWS cloud monitoring and alerts for cloud resource availability.
• Strong scripting experience using PowerShell and/or Python.

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• High degree of knowledge in PaaS and SaaS application performance.
• Understand enterprise level application architecture diagrams and IT security requirements.
• PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Experience with large scale enterprise streaming services such as Kafka; Experience with Kubernetes and Docker containers or AWS Fargate; Experience implementing applications with both Windows and Linux server OS

Contact:

Ashley Falkenberg | Senior Recruiting Consultant

Forbes Technical Consulting LLC | 343 W Erie St. Suite 520 | Chicago, IL 60654

E ajones@forbestc.com