American Water · 3 hours ago
Lead Technologist - Cloud Architecture
Camden, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$101K/yr - $130K/yr
6+ years expAmerican Water is committed to providing innovative solutions in the water industry, and they are seeking a Lead Technologist specializing in Cloud Architecture. The role involves developing cloud strategies, managing cloud systems, and ensuring the security and compliance of cloud resources.
ConsumerWaste ManagementWater
Responsibilities
Build and test Application infrastructure / AWS EKS cluster / AWS CICD as IaC in accordance with best practices
Build and maintain networking and security practices and maintain cloud solutions in accordance with best practices
Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
As a part of continues improvement, collaborate with product team and get the feedback. Based on the feedback enhance the infrastructure / CICD ( Continues Integration and Continues Deployment)
Write and develop cloud automation playbooks for managing and scaling containers, hosts, cloud services, and applications
Work on multiple AWS service such as EKS ( Elastic Kebernetes Service ), EC2, Cloudwatch, RDS, S3, Secret Management, Security Groups, EKS serverless Clusters and find out innovative way to improve the performance
Expertise in AWS Networking such as VPC, subnet, Route table, Direct Connect, and transit gateway configurations
Expertise in AWS services such as EKS cluster (Elastic Kubernetes Cluster), Cloudformation , AWS CodePipeline, EC2, EFS, RDS, FSX and QuickSight
Experience with cloud managed services and microservices like Function as a Service, Containers, and managed databases
Infrastructure as code: Automation tooling with Terraform or CloudFormation
Designing AWS QuickSight dashboard for capturing AWS cost optimization report
Experience with setting up ALB, Application Cluster with Autoscale, metric dashboard at CloudWatch, and alert based on the event
Monitor compliance of cloud resources to see if they fit industry guardrails and best practices
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in Computer Science / Information Technology / Information Systems or related field of Engineering
6 + years of overall experience with Information Technology / Information Systems
3-5 years of building and maintain cloud environments and workloads
4+ years of related technical individual contributor experience in cloud service provider
Strong knowledge and practical experience with AWS
Familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
Experience in migrating on-prem workloads to cloud (AWS/AZURE)
Experience with cloud infrastructure technologies (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit gateway, Route Table, Route53, ELB, FSX, RDS, EFS, EBS, S3, Cloud watch, QuickSight, Cloud Formation, IAM, KMS, etc.)
Understanding of cloud best practices and processes
Good interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively at all levels in the organization
Capable of working under tight deadlines
Proven track record of successful teamwork and development
Detail oriented
Proactive, persistent, passionate, creative, flexible, and dependable
Strong customer and user experience focus
AWS Certification
Preferred
Masters in the related field will be a plus
Benefits
401(k)
Defined Contribution Plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Medical
Prescription
Dental and vision coverage
Disability
Paid time off
Life insurance
Voluntary benefits
Health and wellness programs
Company
American Water
American Water is a waste water utility company.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$900.57MKey Investors
Water Research Foundation
2024-02-21Grant· $0.57M
2023-06-27Post Ipo Debt· $900M
2017-11-29Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
John Griffith
President and Chief Executive Officer
Susan N. Story
President & Chief Executive Officer
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