Systems Architect with AWS/Azure expertise

Today we are a global team of technologists and thinkers, who help transform the world with the power of software, enabling our customers to be competitive and disruptive in the marketplace through innovative technology solutions.

EPAM is committed to providing our global team of 36,700+ EPAMers with inspiring careers from day one. EPAMers lead with passion and honesty and think creatively. Our people are the source of our success and we value collaboration, try to always understand our customers' business, and strive for the highest standards of excellence. In today's new market conditions, we continue to support operations for hundreds of clients around the world remotely, with the vast majority of our teams working from home. No matter where you are located, you'll join a dedicated, diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our client operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Transportation brokers, motor carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on its market trends and data insights. Founded in 1978, it is a diversified technology company and constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 1000, and Russell 1000 indices.

Currently, we are searching for a Systems Architect to join our Engineering team. The project team is responsible for delivering customer solutions on multiple platforms that are responsive, scalable, and of the highest quality. We use the Agile development process, and value employees who foster collaboration between team members.

On this role, you will be expected to have a strong background in designing and maintaining scalable enterprise systems deployed to AWS.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitor existing processes, infrastructure and services, analyze their effectiveness and create strategies to improve productivity and efficiency:
• Carry out associated responsibilities for all services delivered by EPAM
• Improve monitoring and telemetry (New Relic, Logz.io, Grafana, AWS)
• Manage quality assurance programs:
• Establish functional tests in production (e.g. New Relic Synthetics)
• Design customer service policies, SLAs and OLAs related to the company's products and services
• Manage Product Quality reports
• Drive automated performance testing and reporting (Cucumber, TestCafe, WebDriver, ReportPortal)
• Manage all technical and operational aspects in day-to-day delivery of products with full development lifecycle:
• Drive improvements of operations and CI/CD (Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Flux)
• Drive improvements of development, utilizing Atlassian stack (including Service Desk and Bitbucket), Stoplight, Mixpanel, Ambassador, Node.js, Koa, Angular
• Manage AWS services, including EKS, MSK, Kinesis, Lambda, Elasticsearch, Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Snowflake Data Warehouse
• Supervise and develop training programs for other team members

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years' experience in hands-on development of solutions of different nature (web applications, web services, desktop applications, native mobile applications) in AWS Cloud
• 5+ years' experience in team leadership
• 3+ years' experience in project management and direct customer communication
• Strong system administration background
• Profound experience in AWS infrastructure and deep familiarity with its feature set
• Deep expertise in configuration management systems (preferably Ansible)
• Proficiency in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery design
• Strong experience with Docker containerization
• In-depth practical knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in Terraform
• Experience in AWS server-less stack
• Familiarity with logs and monitoring systems
• Leadership and communications skills:
• Proactive approach and leadership in architecture engagement
• Experience in customer site assignments
• Excellent general communication skills
• Ability to communicate information to customer representatives, listen and manage their concerns
• Ability to read context and people
• Fluent English level

BENEFITS

• Innovative solutions delivery to the world's digital changes
• Experience exchange with colleagues all around the world
• Opportunities for self-realization
• Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
• Engineering, corporate and social events
• Social package: professional & soft skills trainings, medical & family care programs, sports
• English classes with certified English teachers
• Flexible working schedule
• Business trips to UK, USA and other EPAM locations
• Opportunity to relocate to USA, EU or other EPAM locations
• Act as SA for different clients with providing SA consultancy

EVEN MORE EPAM BENEFITS

• We offer the possibility to work on full product lifecycle -from concept to delivery into production
• We offer mentorship program
• We offer guaranteed professional growth through the technology trainings and technology communities inside EPAM
• We are proactive Agile/Scrum/XP practitioners