Technical Architect - AWS at Hapag-Lloyd AG – Chennai | Jobyssey

Join us on a transformative journey as we migrate our document and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
platform from mainframe-based applications to a cloud-based platform on AWS. As an Technical Architect with
a strong background in software engineering, you'll play a key role in driving this transformation by setting
among our workstreams, designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions
that leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and DevOps practices. You'll work closely with our
software development teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure is optimized for our applications, and that
our applications are designed to take full advantage of the cloud infrastructure, with development processes
aligned with cloud best practices.
You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and other stakeholders
to make key technical decisions, drive technical excellence, and ensure that our cloud infrastructure and
applications are highly performant, secure, and scalable. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of
our cloud infrastructure and applications, and in driving the adoption of cloud technologies and practices
across our team.
If you're passionate about cloud computing, software development, and driving technical innovation with the
goal of enabling a seamlessly operating, scalable platform for our users, we invite you to apply and help shape
the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely within a cross-functional Product team in which you enable the application developers
by understanding requirements, designing, & implementing the solutions with AWS resources
• Combine theoretical best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework with your personal
experience to find the best solution for our current challenges
• Engage in Platform & Enterprise Architecture rounds to promote company-wide adoption
• Evaluate and implement security and compliance strategies, ensuring cloud environments meet
industry & internal standards as efficiently as possible
• Bring in your experience by promoting technical advancements
• Research trends and evaluate their adoption in our practical world (e.g. GenAI, automation..)
• Continually optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, security, and performance to maximize
reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our platform.
• Design processes for collaboration with operation & application teams
• Lead migration projects from initial assessment to operating & optimization
• Review and refine cloud migration and infrastructure management processes, ensuring smooth
transitions, continuous optimization and automation.

Technical

• Proven experience with a wide range of AWS services:
o Docker, ECS, Fargate
o EC2
o EKS
o & more..

• Proven ability to design and implement performing systems that can handle high load:
o High performance
o High throughput
o Scalable systems
o Multi-threading/high parallelization
o Ensuring applications can handle high loads & meet business needs

• CI/CD
o Maven, NPM, GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild
o Automation tools like Renovate Bot
o Semantic Release to streamline deployments

• Security & Compliance
o AWS Security Hub
o Checkmarx
o Demonstrating a strong security awareness with experience in threat modeling and related
practices

• Complex Infrastructure as Code
o AWS CDK with TypeScript
o Alternative: Terraform and willing to learn CDK

• Database & Storage:
o Managing cloud-based relational databases like MySQL
o schema management using Liquibase
o NoSQL databases like MongoDB
o Scalable storage solutions like Amazon S3.

• Software Engineering
o Java programming on enterprise level
o Experience with Spring Boot

• Messaging Systems
o Kafka
o Queueing systems

• Monitoring & Observability
o Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch
o Datadog, Open Telemetry

• Software Engineering: Strong foundation in Java programming on enterprise level and experience
with Spring Boot

Personal

• You are enthusiastic about your role
• You want to deliver value to the team and organization
• You want to fully understand a problem, come up with solutions & implement them to see your work
running smoothly in production
• You have software engineering background, but now love to enable them
• You have worked effectively in multinational teams
• You can communicate effectively in English
• You can prove your expertise by either
o Having 6+ years of experience in a similar role & tech stack or
o Having AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certificate or
o Having strong project references in which you played a key role
• You don’t like manual work and want to automate recurring tasks
• You like to work independently and with teammates
• You want to drive solutions, not just sit in the back-seat

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