Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Architect

Concord, CA

Hybrid

Contract

$110.59/hr - $124.61/hr

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Engineer in Concord, CA (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 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.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 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.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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 Technology.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

• Vision Benefits

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

• Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

• Paid Sick Time Leave

• Legal and Identity Protection Plans

• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted by: Rene Sadlier

Specialization: Software Engineering