AWS Application Architect

Rackspace Technology

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About The Position

Key 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 Azure / AWS platform using core developer services such as: API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB and ECS. Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices). Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures. Advise on implementing Azure / AWS best practices. Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise. Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services. About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future. More on Rackspace Technology Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Embrace Technology. Empower Customers. Deliver the Future. Excellence: We’re an accountable, disciplined, high-performing company with proven results. Customer-driven: We’re proactive, collaborative and committed to success for our customers. Expertise: We’re passionate learners, rooted in our customers’ business to provide unbiased solutions. Agility: We’re adopting new technologies and evolving services to meet customers where they are in their journey. Compassion: We’re one team, doing the right thing for our customers, communities and each other. We’re looking for team members who are ready to unleash their creativity, collaborate with talented coworkers and make a lasting impact in the IT field. Could that be you?

Requirements

• BS level technical degree. Additional experience may substitute the for the degree.
• 8 + years of software development or application engineering with recent coding experience in two or more modern programing languages such as: .NET, 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).

Nice To Haves

• 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 Azure / 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 (e.g. Jenkins).
• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible).
• 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.

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 Azure / AWS platform using core developer services such as: API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB and ECS.
• Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices).
• Migrate monolithic applications to microservices architectures.
• Advise on implementing Azure / AWS best practices.
• Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your application development expertise.
• Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services.

Benefits

• The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Learn more about benefits at Rackspace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level