Cloud Architect

Job Description Summary: We are looking for a Cloud Architect that is proficient in JavaScript and scaled microservices architecture and design. The bulk of the work will be building applications and deploying code/infrastructure in AWS to support. Aside from design and development, this individual should have experience collaborating with QE and either front end or firmware (or both) in a lead role. Finally, performance testing is 3rd most important. In a nutshell, we are looking for a Middleware Developer that would be open to picking up some Ops and SRE tasks when needed. 80% of the work is going to be back-end development. Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with firmware, mobile, middleware, and quality engineers to develop reusable cloud components and back-end solutions for the Client's IoT platform.
• Work with architect to develop a scalable extensive backed IoT platform.
• Interface with product, marketing, and UX team members to convert production vision into functional solutions. Manage derivative technical requirements accordingly.
• Develop automated solutions for validating stress, load and performance of the cloud platform.
• Execute standardized deployment playbooks for infrastructure and application.
• Participate in peer review meetings surrounding system and component design.
• Contribute to pull request process as a developer and reviewer.
• Develop unit testing for software components.
• Adhere to coding standards and industry best practices for high quality software development.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and diagnose platform quality stability issues in test and production landscapes.
• Execute an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) development process to provide adequate work visibility and on time software delivery.
• Advocate and drive process definition to standardize best practices across the cloud development team.
• Document system and cloud software components as designs require.
• Keep software components up to date with routine patching and maintenance work.

• 5+ years developing services and API in microservices architecture
• SDLC across multiple cloud environments
• Service and API performance and load testing
• Docker, elastic containers, Kubernetes, etc.
• Autoscaling, horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Node-red, AWS, Grafana, K6 a plus.
• DB - SQL, NoSQL (couch, dynamo, mongo, cosmos), cache, etc
• Configuration of CI/CD pipelines, and deployment scripts/automation
• Security and firewall threat management a plus.
• Experience with encryption and IoT platform a plus.
• Destructive and disaster recovery testing experience a plus.