Perficient currently has a career opportunity in Boston, MA for a Pivotal Technical Architect/Operator.  Local candidates preferred, but remote work is an option (must be onsite at least twice a month if not local and travelling to Boston).



Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment tied to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.


• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS environment.


• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment.


• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability and security.


• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation. Institute infrastructure as code, security automation and automation or routine maintenance tasks.


• Perform data migration from on premises environments into AWS


• Support the business development lifecycle (Business Development, Capture, Solution Architect, Pricing and Proposal Development)

Qualifications

• Must have a minimum of 10 years experience as a Systems Architect - implementing and laying down entire enterprise infrastructure.


• Extensive experience as Cloud Solutions Architect with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) in AWS - must exhibit knowledge of AWS & how it works.   Experience with any others like GCP would be an added bonus


• At least 2-3 years of experience as a hands-on PCF Architect and  managing PCF infrastructure.


• At least 2 years of experience with the PCF Install and administration.


• Capacity planning and Installation / configuration of PCF (BOSH /OpsManager/Apps Manager) and dependent tiles. PCF deployment in a multi-zone cloud platform.


• Automated jobs/pipelines for updating the PCF platform


• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural stand point


• Strong knowledge with Web Services, API Gateways and application integration development and design


• Must have a Strong background in Linux


• Must exhibit knowledge of DevOps methods, Jenkins and CI/CD automation practices


• Knowledge of agile software development practices and release management


• Thorough understanding of Cloud Computing: virtualization technologies, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Cloud delivery models and the current competitive landscape.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.


• Must be open to travel.


• MUST have strong communications skills.


• Full life cycle software design and development with Core Java/J2EE


• Experience with automation/configuration management using Puppet, Chef, Ansible or similar.


• Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, LXC, etc.)


• Knowledge of data migration practices and technologies

Preferred Skills and Education

• PCF and AWS Certifications strongly preferred


• Experience working with a globally distributed team and managing off-shore teams.


• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.


• Experience with authoring, editing and presenting technical documents.