Location: Toronto, ON

Duration: 6 months contract

To serve as a primary technical associate of the business improvement team in assisting in confirming customer success in creating applications and services on the AWS platform.
Responsible for building and integration of computer systems and information for meeting specific needs. Typically, this involves the integration of hardware and software for meeting the customer-defined purpose, examination of current systems and architecture.
To have a have a working practice of DevOps tools.
Actively participate as an AWS technical SME on teams to help promote the development of Cloud solutions.
Establish standards, guidance and best practices for AWS Solutions.
Establish the appropriate monitoring and alerting of solution events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
Monitor environment for usage and performance metrics.
To understand client engagement, critically towards well-defined purposes and achievement standards.
They work with technical and business staff for recommending solutions for more effective systems.
To possess each technical commitment and assist in ensuring a suitable and successful delivery of agreed cloud services.
To shorten the time required for the production. Should be capable of deploying automation infrastructure by utilizing the AWS Cloud Formation technique
Need to maintain a balance between enterprise concerns and architectural concerns.

Qualification and Experience:

2 or more years of IT implementation experience using AWS
Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor team to build necessary competency
Hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required
Integration of cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
In depth knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3 etc
Proven experience assessing client’s workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud
Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell)
Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet
Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications
Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

AWS Architect - Toronto