Solution Architect - SRE
Company: DragonSpears
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 25, 2024
Job Description:
Solution Architect - SRE at DragonSpears, Inc.
www.dragonspears.com Back to all openings Apply Summary/ Objective
: As a Solution Architect focused on Site Reliability Engineering
at DragonSpears, you will play a pivotal role in crafting
innovative strategies and solutions for clients, addressing complex
business problems, and ensuring the design, observability, and
stability of technology platforms. Your leadership will guide
development teams to deliver high-quality solutions within budget
and deadlines. Essential Functions: Solution Architecture:
Requirement Analysis and Solution Design:
- Engage with clients to understand business processes, needs,
and requirements.
- Translate client requirements into architectural designs and
specifications.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to align designs with
business objectives. Technical Leadership and Decision-Making:
- Provide guidance to DevOps and development teams, ensuring
technical solutions align with the architectural vision.
- -Accountable for evaluating and allocating resources for
project staffing.
- Make key decisions on tools, frameworks, and
methodologies.
- Identify and address potential technical risks or challenges.
Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration:
- Collaborate with project managers, SREs, DevOps engineers,
cloud engineers, developers, testers, and stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment on proposed solutions, benefits, and
trade-offs.
- Act as a bridge between technical teams and business
stakeholders. Continuous Improvement and Research:
- Stay updated with industry trends, tools, and technologies.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies or methodologies.
- Lead internal initiatives to improve processes and
methodologies. Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
- Create detailed architectural documentation and
specifications.
- Mentor junior team members, share knowledge, and conduct
training sessions. Site Reliability Engineering: Observability and
Stability:
- Design logging, monitoring, observability, and alerting
solutions with clients.
- Architect and implement cloud infrastructure for high
availability and high security systems that meet the client's needs
(including ingress with rules, authentication, authorization,
virtual networking, security, etc.).
- Architect and implement containerized applications with
orchestration
- Architect and implement cloud native applications including
PAAS and FAAS resources.
- Focus on continuous improvement for a modern application with
good user and developer experience.
- Plan for high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Plan for scalability and cost effectiveness of the solution.
DevOps:
- Create automation and document workflows for continuous
integration, testing, application deployment, and developer
experience.
- Architect and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions.
- Define configuration management tools and procedures.
Collaboration and Support:
- Work closely with support teams, delivery managers, and product
owners.
- Drive adoption of architectural patterns, design policies, and
performance initiatives.
- Assist, mentor, and train team members on observability
practices. Client Relationships and Upgrades:
- Build strong partnerships and relationships with clients.
- Collaborate with support, systems, and business leads for
upgrades and enhancements.
- Promote technical and functional best practices and industry
standards. Qualifications:
- At least 12 years of professional experience, with a preference
for 5 years in client consulting.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or
Management Information Systems.
- Experience with tools for observability, CI/CD, and
monitoring.
- Experience with Kubernetes containerization in AWS.
- In-depth knowledge of DevOps and continuous delivery practices.
Technical Skills:
- Databases: SQL Server, Postgres, Cosmos, Dynamo.
- Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Serverless Framework, Cloud
Formation, ARM templates.
- DevOps: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions.
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, ECR, Azure AKS,
ACR.
- This role would work with applications with back-end
technologies such as: .Net, C#, Java, and Python and front-end
technologies such as: ASP.NET, Angular, React, and Vue.
Competencies:
- Solutioning / Problem Solving.
- Client / Consulting Expertise.
- Team / Project Leadership.
- Communication Proficiency.
- Time Management. Equal Employment Opportunity All employment
decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color,
religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information,
marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected
by federal, state, or local law. Disclaimer This description is not
designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities,
duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be
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Keywords: DragonSpears, South Bend , Solution Architect - SRE, Other , Chicago, Indiana
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