• 5+ or more years of IT implementation experience.
• Experience driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation.
• Hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale or current hands on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3)
• Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
• Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell)
• Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
• Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Integration of cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)
• Scripting and/or coding skills.