AWS Solutions Architect

Open to Remote

About Us
With over 20 years of experience and 700+ associates across 7 different countries, CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is the most trusted and established name in performance marketing.

We specialize in cultivating partnerships between top brands and trusted publishers to help them drive revenue and grow their businesses. CJ’s industry-leading solutions and services are what makes our innovative marketing technology (“martech”) the platform of choice for over 3,800 global brands across all industries including retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services. As part of Publicis Groupe, our data capabilities, future-focused tech, and strategic expertise power meaningful connections so brands can reach consumers wherever they are.

We take just as much pride in our innovative technology and comprehensive data as we do in the expertise and dedication of our people. Our collaborative teams are equipped with advanced tools, training, and career development opportunities in order to provide our clients with cutting edge solutions, strategies, and support that drive meaningful results. Our people are at the heart of it all—people who dare to think big.

So, what is Affiliate Marketing?
Think about the last time you bought something online. Maybe your favorite influencer shared a product that caught your eye. Perhaps you already knew what you wanted to buy, but there were so many options that you needed help from a trusted review site. Or maybe you simply love combing coupon sites for hot deals. However you finally made your purchase, chances are you interacted with affiliate publishers along the way—whether they influenced you, provided helpful information, or made sure you got the best price. CJ provides the performance marketing platform that connects brands with these publishers to create valuable resources frequently used by shoppers such as yourself.

Here's why you’ll love working here
In addition to competitive salaries, 401K matching, wellness reimbursement programs, life insurance, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, we also offer:

• Flexible time off, no accrual necessary

• Paid holidays

• Company-sponsored team building events

• Business Resource Groups

• Annual recognition awards

• Flexible work arrangements

• Parental bonding leave

• Back-up child/elder care

• Employee discount program

• International SOS program

• Employee referral program

Just to name a few of our perks.

CJ Affiliate is the world’s leading affiliate marketing network – and part of one of the world’s largest digital advertising company. We transform digital marketing with the help of big data to connect top advertisers and publishers.

About This Role

We are looking for a passionate, talented and experienced AWS Solutions Architect to help us drive our cloud initiatives, in close collaboration with the Squad Leads, the DBAs and the Principal Engineers.

This position will own the cloud infrastructure vision, researching, designing, implementing and maintaining solutions that will improve the squads’ productivity and quality, while increasing the security, reliability and speed of the platform.

Own the overall architecture, security, performance, and reliability of all CJ’s cloud assets.

Support and further develop the current software development CICD pipeline.

Full project lifecycle: define & collaborate on requirements, offer solutions, discuss limitations, assess timelines, scoping and diagramming problems and solutions, communicate and discuss solutions with engineers and other stakeholders, maintain architecture diagrams and documentations, identify and eliminate redundancy.

Build prototypes for finding the best cloud solutions for a variety of on-prem technologies and frameworks.

Collaborate with the AWS Support team, lead cloud architectural design discussions, and advocate for architectural design applications and implementation.

Help the full-stack engineers remove any roadblocks they might have, work with them to predict possible future challenges and identify bottlenecks.

Carry out issue resolution, troubleshooting, roots cause analysis, and implementation of solutions.

Review and improve existing standards, define, educate on and implement new standards.

Provide mentorship, identify improvement areas, define & implement a training process to constantly improve the cloud skills of the engineering organization.

Stay on top of the cloud technologies, threats and opportunities, what’s coming and going.

4+ years in a mature SaaS environment with hands-on experience in designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable and distributed systems on AWS. Other major cloud providers are a bonus.

Associate or higher AWS Certification (2020 or newer) as a Solutions Architect / SysOps Admin.

Experience with cost tracking, analysis and optimization.

Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.

Experience with public cloud and on-premises infrastructure and interfacing with them programmatically through APIs.

Experience with CI/CD, project, and Knowledge management tools (e.g. Git - GitLab's CI/CD is a plus, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, etc.)

Hands-on programming experience automating provisioning, deployment, and alerting for cloud applications.

Experience with configuration management and deployment automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Development Kit, or AWS Cloud Formation.

Flexible schedule for occasional early/late meetings with CJ’s global engineering teams.

Bachelor’s degree - CS or related field preferred; or related work experience.

Strong communication skills (verbal and written) – must be able to communicate at a business and technical level with internal teams, customers, partners and executives.

Why CJ Affiliate?

CJ Affiliate is the leader in Affiliate Marketing. We take pride in our innovative technology, comprehensive data solutions and our people. We equip our teams with advanced tools, training and career development opportunities all to provide cutting edge solutions, strategies and support to deliver high quality results for our clients. We work in an energetic, results-oriented, collaborative, team environment that recognizes exceptional performance. As we evolve and grow as a business, so do you.

We're a community of creative and passionate problem solvers who go the distance to tackle the tough questions, think outside the box, and drive intelligent growth, for our clients—and ourselves. We foster and embody an inclusive and collaborative culture where diverse perspectives are sought, relationships are valued, and people feel accepted with a sense of belonging in expressing themselves authentically. We pride ourselves in having a workplace environment that values both work and play. Business Resource Groups, Fun team outings, office events, and flexible time off mean a work life balance with colleagues that turn into lifelong friends.

Conditions of Employment

All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of certain background checks which unless prohibited by applicable law may include criminal history checks, employment verification, education verification, drug screens, credit checks, DMV checks (for driving positions only) and fingerprinting.

Great People, Deserve Great Benefits

We know that we have some of the brightest and most talented associates in the world, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, expect competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, and endless opportunities to advance your career.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.