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Rackspace Technology · 4 hours ago

Cloud Software Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$161K/yr - $275K/yr

8+ years exp

Rackspace Technology is a multi-cloud solutions expert that combines expertise with leading technologies to deliver end-to-end solutions. The Cloud Software Architect will design, automate, and deploy services on AWS, ensuring they can self-heal and are built using infrastructure-as-code for customer reuse.

Web Hosting

No H1B

Responsibilities

Work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams

Lead technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of new technologies and practices

Architect and build highly scalable, cloud-native applications on the AWS platform using core developer services such as: API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and ECS, AKS

Event Driven application development

Amazon Connect, Connect Flows with Lambda Invokation

Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices)

Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures

Advise on implementing AWS best practices

Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise

Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services

Qualification

AWSMicroservicesInfrastructure as CodeContinuous Integration/DeliveryAgile methodologiesCloud CertificationsEvent Driven developmentContainer technologiesJavaJavaScriptC/C++C#SwiftNode.jsPythonGoRubyLinuxWindows

Required

BS level technical degree or equivalent experience

8 + years of software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more modern programming languages such as: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Swift, Node.js, Python, Go, or Ruby

Hands-on recent development experience and capability. You will be expected to write and review code

5+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles

Experience with Agile development methodologies

Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Preferred

Cloud Certifications

Demonstrated success as a software developer, application architect, product manager, CTO, or consultant working with various platforms

Architecting, designing and developing applications on the AWS platform

Designing and building application using Container and serverless technologies

Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment

Continuous Integration (CI) tools

Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

Presenting at public events such as technology conferences, hackathons, blogging, writing on technical forums, etc

Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers