Infrastructure Architect

Company: Apex Systems
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Infrastructure Architect Duration: Fulltime Location: Atlanta, GA **Applicants must not require any current or future sponsorship** to apply direct please email Kailey Harvell at Job Summary Apex is searching for a Infrastructure Architect to join our clients high performance team. The successful candidate will have strong skills in the Cloud, maintenance, monitoring, and production support and software deployment. This position will require 24x7 "on-call" availability to support production operations and periodic off-hour work for software deployment and maintenance. Responsibilities

• Build and manage multiple software development and production infrastructure environments (AWS and On-premise).
• Maintain tools, processes and associated documentation and manage API Gateways and underlying Infrastructure. Preferred CA Layer7, but experience with other API Gateways is a plus.
• Build, deploy and manage software development tools/environments as required by the development team (Rally, Jira, Git and others)
• Measure utilization of production resources and available capacity. Past experience in capacity modeling is highly desired.
• Experience in reviewing machine data using Splunk or other Log Analytics tools to gain further operational insight to improve overall systems performance
• Prior deep experience operating workloads in Production environments using AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Route53, Fargate, DynamodDB, DocumentDB, RDS, EBS etc.)
• Drive and deliver next-gen architecture using AWS managed services and cross-regional resilience.
• Troubleshoot software and infrastructure problems and act as development escalation point for production issues
• Work with hosting engineering to ensure production systems achieve highest reliability, availability and performance
• Deploy software in all environments; work with Production Deployment team to ensure successful deployments
• Experience in cost-optimization and Cloud spend management.
• Standout as a go-to person for Cloud enablement and roadmap
• Ability to operate as a self-driven leader and evangelist for robust, resilient architectures. Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
  • 10+ years of IT experience with 2+ years of hands-on experience in API Gateways
  • (CA Layer7/Apigee/Kong), system administration, software deployment automation and monitoring
  • Strong understanding of Unix/Linux fundamentals.
  • Strong understanding of Patching/Roll-back of systems.
  • Strong understanding of API Traffic Management, Rate-Limiting, Concurrency and Load Management
  • Prior experience with HA architectures.
  • Working knowledge of RESTful APIs, OAuth2 authorization framework and API Gateways
  • Strong Apache administration skills
  • Hands-on knowledge of API Gateway (Layer7 preferred), Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SSL.
  • Hands-on experience and administration of MongoDB, Redis, MySQL.
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Splunk, Datadog, Nagios etc.).
  • Hands-on Experience with at-least one programming language (Python, Perl, Ruby, Go etc.)
  • Working knowledge of one or more Linux Distributions (SUSE, Ubuntu etc.).
  • Working knowledge of one or more Configuration Management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
  • Familiarity with Computer Networking
  • Prior experience with Containerization is a huge plus.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on call rotation Preferred
    • Prior experience working with AWS
    • Any professional certifications (Linux, VMWare, AWS, CCNA etc.) are preferred.
    • Prior experience with Network Monitoring
    • Prior experience with GTM/LTM infrastructure Generic Skills
      • Leadership: not only at the management level, but at the individual level - having the confidence and resilience to take risks - be self empowered
      • Communication: understand and express ideas/solutions in a comprehensive and practical format - knowledge sharing
      • User Focus: an absolute focus on the user (internal or external) experience - every aspect of a solution should be productized for ease of use
      • Improvisation: the ability to think across disciplines and existing boundaries (technologies/business/geographies) - lateral thinking
      • Collaboration: teamwork with a positive approach to ambiguity
      • Research: an inclination to continuous research inside and outside the current focus fields
      • Influence by example: scientific proof of an idea (success or failure) as the presentation tool - represent an idea in order to promote it
      • Technical Knowledge: broad and deep technical knowledge with a strong focus on data/objects and API/contracts
      • Abstract Thinking: view of ideas and solutions as abstractions/patterns that can be leveraged/adapted/reused - deliver frameworks instead of point solutions EEO EmployerApex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or - provided by Dice

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