September 20, 2024

Waters Corporation

Brasov

Principal Consultant Cloud Architect

Overview: Waters is developing solutions that make a meaningful impact on the world. Waters Helps:

Scientists in the Fight Against Cancer
Ensure The Quality & Safety of Food and Beverages
Drive Innovation in Chemical Materials
Scientists manufacture innovation for biodegradable plastics, safer cosmetics and latest consumer electronics
Leads the way in helping scientists find ground-breaking treatments

As a Principal Cloud Architect at Waters Romania (Brasov), you will work on projects critical to our Informatics business needs.

We're looking for creative and innovative engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including data processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day.

This role can be fully remote.

Responsibilities:

In this role you will:

Architecture Design and Deployment:

Provide thought leadership towards a foundational strategic vision for OMF Dev Ops platform to align on direction with internal teams and executive leadership
Design and implement complex AWS architectures for high availability, resilience, and scalability.
Lead the migration of legacy systems to AWS, ensuring a seamless and risk-free transition.
Optimize cloud resources for improved performance and cost efficiency, utilizing tools like AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor.

Security And Compliance:

Architect solutions that comply with industry-specific regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2).
Implement and manage security tools and practices, including IAM policies, security groups, and encryption technologies to safeguard the infrastructure.

Dev Ops Automation:

Develop infrastructure as code (Ia C) using tools such as AWS Cloud Formation or Terraform.
Automate the deployment, scaling, and management of applications using AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling, and Lambda.

Performance Monitoring And Optimization:

Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud resources using AWS Cloud Watch and other performance tools.
Ensure business continuity through robust disaster recovery strategies and operational resilience.

Collaboration And Leadership:

Act as a cloud evangelist within the organization, promoting the benefits of AWS solutions.
Collaborate with IT and business teams to align cloud architecture with organizational goals.
Provide mentorship and guidance to junior architects and engineers.

Qualifications:

For this role you will need to have:

Experience:

Hands on, demonstrable experience delivering technical solutions in the AWS space with a minimum of 5 years’ experience as an AWS Architect.
Proven track record of designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
Experience documenting governance and workflows associated with cloud environments.

Technical Skills:

Expert knowledge of AWS services, such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Lambda, and IAM.
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and automation tools (e.g., Cloud Formation, Terraform, Kubernetis, ECS).
Deep understanding of network architectures and data services for cloud environments.
Experience with enterprise migrations from on-prem equipment to cloud environments.

Soft Skills:

Excellent problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
Strong communication and leadership qualities, capable of driving cloud initiatives and influencing decision-making processes.

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security - Specialty a strong plus.

Company Description:

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.