Lead AWS Architect

Sonoma Consulting is one of the fastest growing Global IT Consulting and Executive Search providers with offices in Naperville IL; Chicago IL; Tyson's Corner VA and Hyderabad India.  Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies throughout the world. We look to our large recruiting team to continue to build upon the high standards we have set and ways to continually improve our recruiting process around the speed and quality of the resources we deliver. The Sonoma team prides itself on best model for delivery of IT Resources in a 24/7 model, our high level of professionalism and integrity which enables us to create long-term, meaningful relationships with our clients.  Key Responsibilities     Architect AWS solutions for cloud migration of custom and enterprise applications.     Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure to support the development organizations.     Design a configuration management strategy to enable rapid deployment of new stacks.     Develop Cloud Native Architectures as part of rearchitecting existing workloads     Identify and adopt best practices, architectural solution patterns, new technologies to address current and future needs, and cloud based cost management strategies.     Provide leadership in DevOps practices / CALMS principles     Communicate architectural information to non-technical audiences Qualifications     3-5+ year hands-on experience with a diverse set of Amazon Web Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, application services, databases).     2-3+ years Configuration Management Automation (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack) / Infrastructure as Code.     Preference for 1+ year experience (or equivalent knowledge) of mobile based architectures     Solution architecture experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to AWS.     Experienced with Linux distros and Windows (2008/2012) based workloads     Experience designing API based service architectures (MicroServices / SOA), and associated API standards (REST, SOAP, JSON, etc…)     Experience in security based architecture and solutioning to include the use of Security Groups, NACLs, encryption, authentication/authorization     Best practices on cloud adoption including Tagging and Resource Management     Experience solving data retention, snapshots, and backups on AWS     Foundation in DevOps skillset and cultural disposition Preferred Qualifications     AWS Certified     Experience and/or demonstrated interest in VPC, CloudFormation, CLI, EC2, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch Alarms, CloudTrail     Experience with IAM Roles, Instance MetaData, and User Data     Experience with Search (e.g. ElasticSearch and/or SOLR)     Familiarity with either Python, and/or Powershell scripting languages     Build and maintain a CI environment for building, testing, and deploying releases     Modern CI technology (Git, Jenkins, etc…)     Working knowledge of on-prem infrastructure services, including compute, storage, and network.     VMWare 5.x architecture experience with large deployments including planning, building, and deploying workloads     Publications relating to AWS accessible on Slideshare, or similar     Active in technical communities, such as AWS or DevOps Meetups Sonoma Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law