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Cloud Infra Architect

<div>We are looking for a Cloud Infra Architect with AWS to lead the architecture and implementation for Launch Darkly. This person must have prior experience in leading this implementation and roll out to application teams at large scale.</div><div><strong style="color: black;">Launch Darkly Feature Flags with Progressive rollouts, A/B Testing with Zero Downtime &amp; Full Automation</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">This document outlines the comprehensive requirements for vendor partners to support initiatives aimed at achieving zero downtime, reducing production incidents, improving change failure rate metrics, and enabling full automation. The scope includes feature flags, A/B testing, progressive rollout, and support for deployment patterns across APIs, EKS, OnPrem, Lambdas, and other AWS services.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Functional Scope</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Zero Downtime Deployments</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Implement blue/green or canary deployment models with seamless traffic switching, rollback capability, and session persistence.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Change Failure Rate Reduction</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Integrate root cause tracking, automated rollback, and pre-deployment validation pipelines.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Feature Flags</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Enable real-time toggling, secure access control, and auditability. Must support both server-side and client-side toggles.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">A/B and B/G Testing</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Support traffic segmentation, real-time metrics, rollback, and privacy compliance.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Progressive Rollouts</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Automate staged rollouts by region, user cohort, or environment. Include rollback triggers based on metrics.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Automation &amp; CI/CD</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Full GitHub Actions integration, dynamic runners, and golden path patterns for EKS, Lambda, and OnPrem.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Environment Patterns</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Support for APIs, EKS, OnPrem, Lambdas, Kafka, Glue, RDS, S3, and other AWS services.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Observability &amp; Metrics</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Integrate with Grafana, Splunk, and DORA metrics (lead time, change frequency, failure rate, MTTR).</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Self-Service Enablement &amp; Onboarding/Migration support for feature flags</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Empower teams with Express Lane-style pipelines, role-based access, and audit trails.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Expected Outcomes</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">- Pilot with at least 5 teams by Nov’2025</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">- We need enterprise adoption ready by Nov with at least 5 Patterns inclusive of Cloud &amp; OnPrem</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">- 99.9%+ availability during deployments.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">- 99%+ reduction in change failure rate.</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">- Full automation of provisioning, testing, and deployment pipelines</span></div><div><span style="color: black;">- Full automation and governance for E2E feature flag lifecycle management</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong style="color: black;">Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)</strong></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Performance</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Low-latency toggling, fast rollback, &lt;4 min deployment time.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Security</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Secure artifact storage, RBAC, audit logging, vulnerability scanning.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Scalability</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Support for multi-region, multi-tenant deployments; dynamic scaling of runners.</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Resilience</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Chaos testing, fault injection, recovery time objectives (RTOs).</span></div><div><strong style="color: black;">Compliance</strong></div><div><span style="color: black;">Tagging enforcement, cost visibility, and privacy compliance for A/B testing, BlueGreen, Flags</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div>