Cloud Architect

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Cloud Architecture and Design and Development

• Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.
• Develop and organize cloud systems.
• Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the why, and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks.

2. Consultation

• Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
• Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.

3. Thought Leadership

• Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements.
• Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts.
• Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.
• Knowledge of various IT ecosystems, Proficiency in One or more programming and coding languages Viz., Java/J2EE or Elixir or Python or Ruby.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends, Knowledge of one or more cloud environments, such as Azure Cloud, Google Cloud, or AWS EC2.
• Strong understanding of network architecture and application development methodologies.
• Strong understanding of SOA, Microservices, object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server systems.
• Broad technology experience including: cloud architecture, applications development, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, machine learning, networking, security, storage, DevOps, containers, server less, CI/CD, management and monitoring, cloud migrations, IT transformation.