Architect - Enterprise Data Operations

Responsibilities

• Active contributor to code development in projects and services.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of application developers, operations engineers, architects to understand complex product requirements and translate them into automated solutions that you build.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support and improve architecture, systems, processes, standards and tools.
• Lead technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud
• Design, implement, and maintain server, storage, network, and security infrastructure as code.
• Build reusable pipelines for application deployments.
• Write and maintain code for automating the creation of scalable/resilient systems/infrastructure with a focus on immutability and containers.
• Develop, implement, and test automated data backup and recovery, and disaster recovery procedures across multiple regions.
• Write and maintain clear, concise documentation, runbooks and operational standards including infrastructure diagrams.
• Assist development teams in the creation and understanding of automated application configurations.
• Ensure all solutions are properly monitored and instrumented.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in development, test and production environments.
• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant distributed systems.
• Continuously identify, adopt, & refine best practices.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science or related field or related practical experience.

• 4+ years of experience in Software and/or Infrastructure, with a desired 3+ years in a relevant cloud, Kubernetes, automation development, and/or orchestration positions.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience on Azure leveraging number PAAS services offered by the platform.
• Requires excellent problem solving and analytic skills to effectively address the needs of customers, including experience handling problem escalations and notifications.
• Experience working in GCP, AWS, PCF, Azure, or other cloud-based technologies.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Salt or similar automation tools are a benefit as we drive towards Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with SCM and DevOps tool suites; examples include Git, Sonar, Jenkins, Artifactory, HashiCorp Packer etc.
• Experience with containers, docker, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
• Experience with Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and Windows system administration.
• Programming / Scripting background with knowledge of Python, PowerShell, Groovy.
• Hands-on experience with Azure services (Proficiency with Azure DevOps, ARM Templates, Azure Policy, Azure CLI, Azure Rest API).
• Experience provisioning, operating, monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining systems running in the cloud.
• Multi-year experience in application development and configuration automation.
• Understanding of application, server, and network security.
• Understanding of immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code concepts.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum, experience leading continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts and frameworks.
• Experience in Firewall and Load Balancing technology; Palo Alto, F5, Citrix Netscaler is a plus.
• Cloud Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or other cloud professional certifications) is a plus