Sr. Architect (AWS, Kafka, Terraform) Contract

VTRAC Consulting Corporation
Intelligent Solutions

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Position #: 241101
Position: Sr. Architect (AWS, Kafka, Terraform)
Position Type: Contract (6-18 months)
No. of Positions: 4
Location: Remote

Organization

Working with VTRAC’s consulting team, you will be remotely supporting various clients’ projects.

Description:

You will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world and will gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.

Responsibilities:

• Fully engage with clients during the pre-sales phase.
• Provide strategic technical advice, develop and present best practices.
• Lead discovery sessions to evaluate clients’ existing workloads, infrastructure, and software environments.
• Create target state infrastructure and application architecture, and outline a delivery path for diverse use cases.
• Guide delivery and implementation teams through digital transformation and cloud migration projects.
• Evaluate competing technologies to offer optimal recommendations to clients.
• Continuously learn and adopt new techniques, patterns, and tools.
• Pursue certifications and accreditations to enhance technical skills and advance your career.

Must haves:

• 10 years of experience in a technology role with significant responsibility for technical direction.
• Proven ability to work independently, convert high-level goals into actionable milestones, and achieve them.
• Broad knowledge of Linux/Windows systems, cloud infrastructure, messaging/streaming technologies, data stores/databases, application/API design, internet/network protocols, security architecture, version control systems, and CI/CD tools.
• Extensive knowledge of Confluent and AWS services for scaling, reliability, and efficiency.
• Deep familiarity with Kafka, KStreams, ksqlDB, Flink, and Kafka Connect.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.).
• Programming experience.
• A strong desire and proven ability to learn new technologies, develop new skills, and tackle complex problems.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall project management.
• 3 years of consulting experience in professional services.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to haves:

• Direct client and senior executive interaction in advisory or consulting roles.
• Large-scale deployments on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OpenStack.
• Event-driven architecture, microservices, and distributed processing systems.
• Automated testing or test data management.
• Containerization technologies and best practices, especially Kubernetes.
• Experience with globally distributed teams.

We thank all candidates in advance. Only selected candidates for interviews will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities, please visit us at www.vtrac.com. VTRAC is an equal-opportunity employer.

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