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Jersey City, NJ (3 days a week onsite)
Green Card or U.S. Citizenship
Must have a degree from a U.S. institution
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Job Description
Jefferies is seeking highly skilled Senior Solutions Architects with extensive experience in investment banking to join our dynamic team in Jersey City, NJ. The ideal candidates will possess a strong background in cloud technologies, particularly AWS, along with a proven track record in enterprise IT environments. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your expertise in cloud architecture and infrastructure while contributing to high-impact projects in a fast-paced financial setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Cloud Architecture Design: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that facilitate the deployment of customer applications to cloud infrastructure, ensuring adherence to security protocols and cloud computing best practices.
- Infrastructure Automation: Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of immutable infrastructure.
- AWS Management: Manage configuration, administration, and ongoing maintenance of AWS services to support robust application performance.
- Collaboration: Provide guidance to application and business teams on infrastructure design decisions while collaborating with various technical teams for escalations and the development of cloud-managed services.
- Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in DevOps team processes, enhancing enterprise IT cloud management capabilities.
- Security Oversight: Identify opportunities for threat management and necessary upgrades to ensure the integrity of cloud services.
- Learning and Adaptation: Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to continuously improve cloud architecture and implementation strategies.
- Project Management: Manage multiple projects simultaneously, adapting to changing business needs while working effectively with cross-functional global and remote teams.
Qualifications - Experience: 15+ years of relevant experience in IT, with a strong focus on cloud solutions and enterprise architecture.
- Certification: Must have an AWS Professional Certification.
- Cloud Implementation: Demonstrated advanced experience in cloud implementation using AWS services including compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with EC2, Unix/Linux, and Ansible.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Serverless architectures.
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and networking/security best practices.
- Experience with Python, Docker, and Kafka is a plus.
- Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Collaboration Skills: Proven ability to collaborate effectively with infrastructure and application teams, providing mentorship and leadership as needed.
- Agile Methodologies: Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) best practices.
- Additional Experience: Azure experience is not required but is a nice-to-have.