Senior AWS/ Cloud Solutions Architect

Senior AWS/ Cloud Solutions Architect – Remote or Hybrid | Cary, NC

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We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here.

About the job

The IaaS Design Engineering team is looking for a Senior AWS/ Cloud Solutions Architect to help design, build and maintain the next generation of hosted AWS SAS Cloud. Our team owns IaaS technology domains, sets standards, develops new solutions, and much more for hosted SAS environments, corporate/internal teams and R&D. 

As a Senior AWS/ Cloud Solutions Architect, you will:

• Advise teams on technical designs by providing supporting justification (and when necessary prototypes) for architectural and design choices. Assist in communicating these designs to promote understanding with stakeholders and people of various technical backgrounds
• Interface with the “customer” to gather functional level requirements for a solution. Works with customers to define the activities and challenges they face, to ensure the solution created solves their problems. Informs customers of current capabilities, what is possible, and what isn't.
• Think analytically, write/edit technical material, and present clearly on technical matters in a business context.
• Exercise your ability to adapt and react to complex issues in a timely manner as our business needs and objectives evolve.
• Work with project teams and other architects to develop and maintain architectural designs for applications/platforms/services. Ensure the designs are cost-effective, meet user requirements and meet agreed upon service level agreements.
• Contribute to technical portfolio and technology lifecycle management initiatives by working with teams and other architects to assess and improve technical health, cost, and business value of CIS applications or services.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability through architecture enhancements and best practices.

Required qualifications

• You have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related quantitative field
• AWS Public Cloud expertise with at least 8+ years of Information Technology experience including:
• 5+ years of experience in designing and architecting enterprise solutions/services in a public cloud.
• 2+ years of experience in systems support and consulting.
• 2+ years of experience in Linux.
• 1+ year of experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes.
• In-depth experience in all major aspects of Information Technology (servers/compute, network, storage).
• Experience in deploying and managing containerized services.
• Development experience in a major scripting or compiled programming languages.
• Experience using source control solutions like GitHub or GitLab.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or other AWS related certifications.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator or other related certifications.
• Experience with large-scale, multi-platform enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with automation through interaction with remote APIs (REST).
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or Windows Server Technologies.
• Experience with LDAP, ADFS, SAML, or other Identity and Access Management Solutions.
• Experience with on-prem hypervisor technologies.
• Experience with WAN technologies and how they interact with public Cloud Solutions.

World-class benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans. 
• Medical plan options include…
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays. 
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center). 
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge! 
• An industry-leading 401k plan. 
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1. 
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days. 
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees 

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Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

Job level will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

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