Senior Lead Cloud Architect - AWS (RapidScale) - Military Veterans

At RapidScale , exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. As a growing leader in secure, reliable managed cloud solutions, we help SMBs and enterprises alike simplify IT and unleash innovation. With a broad portfolio spanning AWS, Azure and Google to a full set of Private Cloud and Cybersecurity solutions, RapidScale helps companies turn technology into their biggest competitive advantage.  As part of the Cox family of companies, we offer best-in-class benefits, a commitment to work-life balance, and an award-winning workplace experience

You will collaborate with a skilled professional services team to assist customers in migrating to and utilizing AWS throughout their entire cloud adoption journey. This includes assessments, design, proof-of-concepts, documentation, planning, execution, and optimization. In this role, you will primarily focus on project delivery with direct customer engagement.

What You’ll Do:

• Migration Assessment and Planning:

  • Evaluate application portfolios and strategize migrations to AWS, delivering comprehensive written assessments that include:

    • Total Cost of Ownership models

    • Application migration strategies (6 R’s)

    • High-level project plans and work breakdown structures

    • High-level infrastructure designs and diagrams

    • AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews

• Implementation:

  • Play a hands-on role in implementation teams:

    • Define and maintain the overall technical vision for projects, addressing both customer and internal team needs.

    • Create and maintain detailed diagrams and configuration documentation.

    • Educate customers on AWS services and cloud best practices.

• Collaboration and Improvement:

  • Collaborate with colleagues to enhance the cloud Solutions Architecture practice:

    • Assist pre-sales teams with project scoping and estimations.

    • Contribute to the development of processes, templates, and project resources.

Who You Are:

You’re passionate about technology and the plethora of options the public cloud offers. You enjoy helping customers solve existing problems while identifying and remediating new problems. You also have the following:

Minimum experience:

• A BA/BS Degree with 8 years of relevant overall experience, or a MS degree with 6 years of relevant overall experience, or a Ph.D and 3 years of experience, or 12 years of overall relevant experience without a college degree

• 8+ years of diverse solutions architecture experience, and a minimum of 3 years of relevant public cloud experience

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification

• Hands-on experience with both lift-and-shift and greenfield AWS migrations.

• Intermediate level experience with one or more Infrastructure-as-Code implementations (CloudFormation, Terraform)

• Familiarity with Identity and Access models in on-prem (Active Directory) and public cloud (AWS IAM Identity Center Entra ID, SAML SSO)

• Familiarity with basic containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Fargate)

• Intermediate to Expert level experience with IP Networking, DirectConnect, Transit Gateway, VPN technologies, etc.

Preferred Experience:

• AWS Certifications - DevOps Pro, Advanced Networking, ML, Security, Database Specialty

• PCI, HIPAA, and HITRUST compliance as related to Cloud Infrastructure

• Intermediate to Expert level familiarity with containerization technologies (EKS, AWS Bottlerocket)

• Common Infrastructure as Code and DevOps patterns such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Immutable deployments, and CI/CD Pipelines. 

• Familiarity with Azure and/or GCP

• Industry knowledge in any of the following verticals is highly desired:

  • Healthcare/HealthTech

  • Financial Services/FinTech

  • SaaS

  • E-Commerce