Star Seven Six is a company dedicated to innovation, Star talent, and revolutionizing business and technology solutions. As your advocate, the common thread across our associates is crafting the right tech-savvy solutions. Whether it’s Application Development, Infrastructure Services, Security, Enterprise Service Management or Interactive Design, we’re all about finding solutions that advance your career aspirations. Our ongoing client relationships and our proven experienced leadership speak to our long-term collaborative partnerships. This gives our associates the opportunity to work with a large, diverse group of high-profile clients across a variety of industries.
The Principal Architect leads our technology journey into a hybrid cloud. This role will work with senior technology and business leaders charting the next-generation architecture for applications, deliver new service prototypes, and join the engineering leadership team for a group of more than 100 engineers. This role is core to shifting to a modern microservices approach spanning both on-premises and cloud deployments. You need to be both highly technical and a culture leader, marshalling teams behind decisions and establishing new norms.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- You will create a hybrid cloud strategy and oversee its adoption from the frontlines of development. Your approach will rely upon modern, innovative application standards, and lean heavily into microservices.
- 5+ years of cloud computing architecture experience.
- Deep understanding of cloud security best practices is a strong plus
- Expertise with large-scale multi-tenant cloud and hybrid cloud systems
- Expert in microservices approaches used to deconstruct monolithic applications
- 5+ years of designing and delivering containerized applications
- Expert at infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- 15+ years of experience writing, deploying, and running software ? Expert coding skills in a modern development language (Java, C#, C++, node.js)
- Experience with more than one language a strong plus
- You will champion continuous delivery, assisting teams through the transition to a rapid deployment model. Both design and building pipelines is part of this role, but also educating teams on the reasons why we need them.
- You will propose, share, and refine best practices on how to optimize cloud presence, performance, security, and cost.
- You will design both new applications and build transition approaches for existing ones. Architectural reviews, hands-on refactoring of stacks alongside the teams, and shaping infrastructure transitions are ways you’ll help bring the company forward.
- You will advance and refine our use of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and link it to our success in the CI/CD space. Everything we build must be automated as much as possible regardless of the destination.
- You won’t settle for the current state. You’re here to be a change agent, and you bring the energy and sophistication necessary to see hard transitions through to success. You won’t wait around for others, you will proactively seek out clarifications, problems, and misunderstandings. You want to lead, not be led.
Reporting Relationships: Reporting directly to the Executive Director leading the Academic & Framework Services Organization
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Typically requires a bachelor's or master's degree (or international equivalent).
Experience, Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:
- Experience, Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:
- 5+ years of cloud computing architecture experience
- Direct knowledge and experience with AWS ecosystem are a strong plus
- Deep understanding of cloud security best practices is a strong plus
- Expertise with large-scale multi-tenant cloud and hybrid cloud systems • Expert in microservices approaches used to deconstruct monolithic applications
- 5+ years of designing and delivering containerized applications
- Expert at infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- 15+ years of experience writing, deploying, and running software ? Expert coding skills in a modern development language (Java, C#, C++, node.js)
- Experience with more than one language a strong plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong inter-personal skills.
- Possess strong understanding of modern application architecture modeling tools and standards, ETL tools, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and big data technologies (e.g., Postgres, MSSQL, Mongo, DynamoDB, Hadoop/Cassandra).
Thank you for considering Star Seven Six, Ltd. for your next career opportunity.
S76 provides a wide variety of challenging opportunities, ensuring our associates work in highly sought-after environments and with the latest innovations in technology. We start our relationship with a conversation about your career goals, and work hard to match you with the perfect opportunity. The world of IT is continuously changing, so we know the importance of keeping your skills sharp. Our culture supports continued growth through sponsorship of events, trainings, certifications and other online or structured learning opportunities. We’ll help you stay ahead of the curve. In addition, we provide a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, optical, 401k, etc.
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