Infrastructure and platform architect- Concord, CA at Randstad USA

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location: Concord, California
job type: Contract
salary: $105.62 - 110.62 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

- Lead teams within Digital and Innovation Technology and across the enterprise in researching and proposing highly available, resilient and fault tolerant infrastructure solutions

- Collaborate and work very closely with the engineering strategy, platform engineering and development teams to understand the infrastructure requirements and drive all aspects of application journey to the cloud platform

- Lead and design the platform and infrastructure architecture for 12-factor cloud ready applications as well as large monoliths as they go through transformation and modernization to be cloud-ready

- Research industry best practices, evaluate modern technologies, develop standards and engineering best practices and recommend innovative solutions that support automation and improve platform resiliency and fault tolerance of critical applications

- Define and drive roadmaps that align with technology and business strategy. Perform hardware and capacity planning, analysis, and forecasts for your portfolio of applications with focus on highest availability, scalability, performance, and timely delivery

- Responsible for providing in-depth technical systems leadership, consultation, and execution to with partner tech teams and leadership to ensure alignment with the Enterprise Architecture

- Act as an expert resource for other technical teams within Digital Technolgy

Minimum Requirements

- 10+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

- Demonstrated technical expertise and comprehensive knowledge of infrastructure design to support high volume, multi-tier applications

- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences

- Recent and demonstrated ability to influence management on technical or business solutions

- Knowledge and understanding of Cloud computing, PaaS design principles and micro services and containers

- Working knowledge/experience with cloud computing concepts like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), landing zone, Identity and Access Management (IAM), App Service Environment, Blueprints, Control Plane, Azure Arc and Google Anthos etc.

- Experience in partnering with developers and architects from other teams to build solutions and resolve system and business problems

- Experience in leading / facilitating analysis of current systems and problem identification and resolution

- Ability to lead / facilitate technically complex discussions and working sessions in person or via teleconference

- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps concepts and SRE principles

- Understanding of Database technologies such as Oracle, PostGres, MSSQL

- Experience of large data sets Database, File Systems, and Object Storage

- Experience in managing deployments on PCF/TAS, and Linux VMs

Preferred Skills

- Experience with configuring and supporting application server software such as Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, MQ, etc.

- Experience with Harness.io and/or Ansible

- Experience with Streaming and event driven systems like Kafka and Flink

- Experience with designing and implementing High Availability Database Configurations (Cassandra/MongoDB etc.)

- Understanding of Agile practices and ability to work with Agile teams to define and track user stories

- Working knowledge of SSO solutions such as SAML, PingFederate

- Experience with designing and implementing complex Load Balancer Technologies such as F5 and AVI

- Experience developing microservices and scripts in Java and Python

There are no Compliance items currently required for this assignment

This position is for senior infrastructure and cloud architect to support the DC exit and migration for the very complex Strategic Services and Advanced Technologies.

We are looking for highly specialized Infrastructure engineer/architect with private and public cloud experience and expertise