Application Architect

MSP•Plano, TX

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for a hybrid position (minimum 3 days per week onsite) with a Global Financial Institution. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. The selected candidate will be responsible for writing public cloud infrastructure as code automation using Terraform, designing and developing public cloud landing zones, and building core cloud foundational platform services. This role involves developing CI/CD pipelines for a cloud data analytics platform and partnering with Information Security teams to engineer secure application patterns into cloud platforms.

Requirements

5-7 years of experience in enterprise-scale cloud environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals
Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security
3-5 years of significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules
Experience in DevOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code
Expertise in programming and infra-automation tools – Terraform, Ansible, Java, Python, etc.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the financial services industry
Experience on technology and infrastructure teams
Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration
Experience in Azure data analytics technologies including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Purview and Power BI

Responsibilities

Write public cloud infrastructure as code automation using tools such as Terraform
Design and develop public cloud landing zones automation to build core cloud foundational platform services
Develop cloud services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability
Implement built-in resiliency, observability, and enable FinOps as a part of infrastructure automation to enable data PaaS services
Develop and maintain cloud services catalog for app developers and devops teams
Develop CI/CD pipelines to build the cloud data analytics platform
Collaborate with technical product management and operations to deliver the engineering roadmap in an Agile model
Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns into Cloud platforms
Assist in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
Assist technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers by ensuring that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Benefits

Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
Behavioral Health Platform
Medical, Dental, Vision
Health Savings Account
Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
Voluntary Term Life Insurance
401K
Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)