Cloud Architect - NJ, Irving, Charlotte, Atlanta

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join our organization who is passionate about cloud technologies, and about using them to solve interesting business problems for our customers. If you’re collaborative, technical, and enjoy working on big challenges, we think you’ll enjoy working with us.

Position Summary:

Maintain thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers

Maintain overall product design documentation and oversight. Responsible for the overall architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it

Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices

Be an active member of Cloud center of excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance

Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap

Drive discussions in architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence on architectural decisions

Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products

Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms

Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate

Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders –engineering, operations, developers, and leadership

Required Skills:

Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability

Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform

Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud

Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments

Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)

Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.

Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools – Splunk, Prometheus, etc.

Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.

Experience in infra-automation tools and general programming languages – Ansible, Java, python, etc.

Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:

Cloud IAM

Cloud network and security design

Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.

Native cloud services (i.e., CosmosDB, BigTable, etc.)

Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation

Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation

Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt

Experience in Agile development practices and test-driven development

Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills