TRC Companies, Inc recruitment for Cloud Architect

TRC Companies, Inc. a pioneer in groundbreaking scientific and engineering developments since the 1960s, is a national engineering consulting and construction management firm that provides integrated services to the energy, environmental and infrastructure markets. TRC serves a broad range of clients in government and industry, implementing complex projects from initial concept to delivery and operation.
We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Position: Cloud Architect I
Tracking Code: 220777-992
Job Location: Kano
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
Job Description

    Cloud Architect is responsible for engineering AWS cloud-based infrastructure and operational tools, managing capacity and performance of infrastructure, and utilizing or developing automation tools to work with AWS cloud-based infrastructure.
    They will be familiar with AWS standards and procedures as well as an understanding of system security best practice.
    This position has high creative latitude but also requires the ability to share knowledge with the team members and the larger AWS community.
    Ideal candidates will have 2 to 4 years experience managing AWS systems and 2 to 4 years utilizing configuration management tools to do system automation and management.

Job Requirements

    BS in Computer Science or corresponding experience preferred
    2 – 4 years of cloud-based Operations background
    Experience with SQL and noSQL
    Experience with AWS
    Experience with automation and configuration management
    Solid understanding of agile methodologies, working in small teams, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
    Understanding concepts such as distributed systems, alerting, monitoring, logging, and incident management.
    Understanding of one or more programming languages such as Python (preferred).
    Experience with highly available distributed Linux server environments.
    Understanding of Linux core fundamentals, command-line operations, scripting, and service monitoring.
    Firm understanding of networking concepts and technologies.

Responsibilities

    Designing and building infrastructure to support our AWS-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
    Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
    Enhancing monitoring of systems, services and hardware to solve problems before they become problems for our customers.
    Analyzing and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics in order to optimize software and system performance.
    Automating system build outs and the application deployment process.
    Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
    Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

Remuneration
TRC offers advancement potential and a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k) plan with company match.