Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Architect

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Engineer in Concord, CA (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Demonstrated technical expertise and comprehensive knowledge of infrastructure design to support high volume, multi-tier applications.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
• Recent and demonstrated ability to influence management on technical or business solutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of Cloud computing, PaaS design principles and micro services and containers.
• Working knowledge/experience with cloud computing concepts like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), landing zone, Identity and Access Management (IAM), App Service Environment, Blueprints, Control Plane, Azure Arc and Google Anthos etc.
• Experience in partnering with developers and architects from other teams to build solutions and resolve system and business problems.
• Experience in leading / facilitating analysis of current systems and problem identification and resolution.
• Ability to lead / facilitate technically complex discussions and working sessions in person or via teleconference.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps concepts and SRE principles.
• Understanding of Database technologies such as Oracle, PostGres, MSSQL.
• Experience of large data sets Database, File Systems, and Object Storage.
• Experience in managing deployments on PCF/TAS, and Linux VMs.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with configuring and supporting application server software such as Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, MQ, etc.
• Experience with Harness.io and/or Ansible.
• Experience with Streaming and event driven systems like Kafka and Flink.
• Experience with designing and implementing High Availability Database Configurations (Cassandra/MongoDB etc.).
• Understanding of Agile practices and ability to work with Agile teams to define and track user stories.
• Working knowledge of SSO solutions such as SAML, PingFederate.
• Experience with designing and implementing complex Load Balancer Technologies such as F5 and AVI.
• Experience developing microservices and scripts in Java and Python.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead teams within Digital and Innovation Technology and across the enterprise in researching and proposing highly available, resilient and fault tolerant infrastructure solutions
• Collaborate and work very closely with the engineering strategy, platform engineering and development teams to understand the infrastructure requirements and drive all aspects of application journey to the cloud platform
• Lead and design the platform and infrastructure architecture for 12-factor cloud ready applications as well as large monoliths as they go through transformation and modernization to be cloud-ready
• Research industry best practices, evaluate modern technologies, develop standards and engineering best practices and recommend innovative solutions that support automation and improve platform resiliency and fault tolerance of critical applications
• Define and drive roadmaps that align with technology and business strategy.
• Perform hardware and capacity planning, analysis, and forecasts for your portfolio of applications with focus on highest availability, scalability, performance, and timely delivery
• Responsible for providing in-depth technical systems leadership, consultation, and execution to with partner tech teams and leadership to ensure alignment with the Enterprise Architecture
• Act as an expert resource for other technical teams within Digital Technology.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.