Principal Architect – Networking
Job Description
About the Role
Principal Architect – Networking
CANADA
Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including: workload migrations & modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security & compliance and everything in between. At Caylent, our people always come first.
We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!
The Mission
We are seeking a talented Principal Architect to join our growing Cloud Architecture & Engineering team. The right candidate is someone who has deep expertise building a variety of cloud solutions and is passionate about working with our customers, partners, and employees to drive the business forward. Your mission will be to work alongside Caylent’s Engineers, Delivery Managers and Engagement Managers to deliver AWS cloud solutions across our diverse and innovative customer base. As a Principal Architect, you will be working with Caylent’s most strategic enterprise customers. You’ll work with the latest technologies and with disruptive customers looking to bring innovative ideas to the market.
Your Assignment
Be a thought leader in crafting solutions, reference architectures and best practices.
Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where your expertise is required to propose solutions to lay the foundations for cloud architecture, scaling, development opportunities, cost savings, and vulnerabilities
Design, develop and integrate highly complex DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
Kickoff new client engagements
Take on work already in-line with projects and deliverables and research new projects (R&D)
Develop long range plans with customer to adopt cloud best practices
Ensure high quality of project delivery
Your Qualifications
5+ Years of experience working as a Network Architect for Enterprise organizations in a consulting capacity
Ability to communicate technical objectives and solutions clearly to clients while establishing and cultivating a professional relationship
Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
Strong expertise building networks and using the following technologies: AWS Cloud WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect Gateway, MPLS, BGP, Site-2-Site VPN, IPAM, CDN.
Familiarity with modern Firewalls e.g. Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortigate
Strong hands-on AWS Environment and Serverless Environment
Experience Designing and implementing inter and intra-region high availability solutions
Experience implementing IaC in AWS</li>
Great verbal and written communication skills
Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional
Possess a natural curiosity and excitement for learning new technology
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in a some of the following:
Migrations
CICD
IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Pulumi, etc)
Scripting
Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Fargate, etc)
Cloud Security Best Practices
Networking
Incident, release, problem and change management processes
Experience working on agile projects
Benefits
100% remote work
Equitable Life – Hybrid Plan
100% Premium Coverage for the employee and dependents
Competitive phantom equity
Long-Term Disability
4% Pension match (employer contribution)
Unlimited Vacations
Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Parental Leave
Paid for exams and certifications
Peer bonus awards
State of the art laptop and tools
Equipment & Office Stipend
Individual professional development plan
Annual stipend for Learning and Development
Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture
