Lead Technologist - Cloud Architecture

Share Our Purpose. Be Yourself. Feel Valued. People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals. We are Beautifully Different. We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. American Water is the best choice for your next role! Click here for more information on our inclusion, diversity, and equity journey. About American Water American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across 14 regulated jurisdictions and 18 military installations. American Water’s 6,500 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company’s national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. As one of the fastest growing utilities in the U.S., American Water expects to invest $30 to $34 billion in infrastructure repairs and replacement, system resiliency and regulated acquisitions over the next 10 years. The company has a long-standing history of executing its core operations, aligned with sustainable best practices, through its commitments to safety, affordability, customer service, protecting the environment, an inclusive workforce and strengthening communities. American Water has been recognized on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Indexfor the fifth consecutive year, ranked 18th on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies 2023 List, earned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense® Excellence Award, among additional state, local and national recognitions. For more information, visit amwater.com and join American Water on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Job Information Salary Range: $101,490 - $130,380 The base salary range represents a good faith salary range for this position. This position is eligible for annual incentive pay and has the opportunity for continued salary growth. If you are hired at American Water your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as market, geography, skills, education and/or experience. At American Water, we are committed to pay equity. In addition to compensation, you will be offered a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k), Defined Contribution Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, plus disability, paid time off, life insurance, voluntary benefits, health and wellness programs and much more! American Water is also proud to offer employees learning opportunities and work experiences to grow professionally!Primary Role Senior Technologist – Cloud Architecture will develop a well-informed cloud approach and monitor the transition. This individual will examine the cloud apps, hardware and software on a regular basis. They will create and manage cloud-based systems. They will monitor the company cloud privacy in collaboration with IT security. They will respond to technical difficulties in a timely and competent manner. They will translate project specific requirements into a cloud infrastructure that meets the requirements as well as taking into account the project’s resource use and scalability requirements. They will perform activities such as Automated deployment, maintenance, monitoring and management inside cloud framework that has been created.Key Accountabilities

• Build and test Application infrastructure / AWS EKS cluster / AWS CICD as IaC in accordance with best practices.
• Build and maintain networking and security practices and maintain cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• As a part of continues improvement, collaborate with product team and get the feedback. Based on the feedback enhance the infrastructure / CICD ( Continues Integration and Continues Deployment).
• Write and develop cloud automation playbooks for managing and scaling containers, hosts, cloud services, and applications.
• Work on multiple AWS service such as EKS ( Elastic Kebernetes Service ), EC2, Cloudwatch, RDS, S3, Secret Management, Security Groups, EKS serverless Clusters and find out innovative way to improve the performance.
• Expertise in AWS Networking such as VPC, subnet, Route table, Direct Connect, and transit gateway configurations.
• Expertise in AWS services such as EKS cluster (Elastic Kubernetes Cluster), Cloudformation , AWS CodePipeline, EC2, EFS, RDS, FSX and QuickSight.
• Experience with cloud managed services and microservices like Function as a Service, Containers, and managed databases
• Infrastructure as code: Automation tooling with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Designing AWS QuickSight dashboard for capturing AWS cost optimization report.
• Experience with setting up ALB, Application Cluster with Autoscale, metric dashboard at CloudWatch, and alert based on the event.
• Monitor compliance of cloud resources to see if they fit industry guardrails and best practices.Knowledge/Skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively at all levels in the organization.
• Capable of working under tight deadlines.
• Proven track record of successful teamwork and development
• Detail oriented
• Proactive, persistent, passionate, creative, flexible, and dependable
• Strong customer and user experience focusExperience/Education
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science / Information Technology / Information Systems or related field of Engineering . Masters in the related field will be a plus
• 6 + years of overall experience with Information Technology / Information Systems
• 3-5 years of building and maintain cloud environments and workloads.
• 4+ years of related technical individual contributor experience in cloud service provider
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with AWS
• Familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
• Experience in migrating on-prem workloads to cloud (AWS/AZURE)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure technologies (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit gateway, Route Table, Route53, ELB, FSX ,RDS, EFS, EBS, S3, Cloud watch, QuickSight, Cloud Formation, IAM, KMS, etc.)
• Understanding of cloud best practices and processesCertifications & Licenses

AWS CertificationWork Environment Standard office environment #LI-LKOCompetenciesChampions safetyCustomer obsessedCultivates innovationNimble learningDrives ResultsCollaborates

• Up to 9.25% employer contribution towards 401(k) and defined contribution. This includes 4% 401(k) match and an additional 5.25% employer contribution after a one-year vesting period
• This position also offers participation in the American Water Annual Performance Program.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and prescription benefits starting on the first of the month after the start date. Preview available on americanwaterbenefits.com (non-union employee tab at the top)
• A hybrid work model autonomy and flexibility in how work gets done
• Great atmosphere with people who care about water and the environment
• Up to $10K in qualified Tuition Reimbursement