Architect - PE

• Guide the client on technology evaluation, technical thought leadership, requirement gathering and direction
• Design and document the detailed architecture and provide the walkthrough to the client directly
• Take a lead in preparing functional and technical specification documents
• Guide, and nurture the team members for successful delegation
• Lead project deliveries and engage with the Go-To-Market teams for pre-sales requirements
• Work closely with the business team to highlight and mitigate any risks to the projects proactively
• Maintain a rapport with client-partners, and manage their expectations and plan for engineering.
• Guide and help team members debug and solve technical problems.
• Lead engagements with multiple work-streams; prepare project plans and manage deliverables
• Review and perform code walkthrough for quality deliverables to the client
• Showcase thought leadership on technology roadmaps, agile development methodologies, and out-of-the-box thinking

Requirements

• 8+ years of IT experience in the Infrastructure realm that includes detailed understanding of Cloud providers(GCP, AWS or Azure - added advantage to multi-Cloud experience) and their best practices, Networking, Compliances(HIPAA, GDPR, NIST), and Cloud services(serverless, server based)
• Detailed understanding and proven implementations for DevSecOps pipelines and culture, Containerization(Kubernetes, Docker), Service mesh(Envoy, Tanzu etc), Database modelling, and Operations(logging, monitoring, alerting)
• Thorough understanding of low-latency API architectures using either serverless or server based services

Must have good understanding of following resources:

• Networking - Load balancing(HTTPS, TCP, SSL, etc), VPNs(BGP, IPSec), high-speed private connections(like Partner Interconnect, Express routes, etc)
• Security - Secrets management, IAM policies(Least privilege), Compliances, CMEK keys, safeguarding external API endpoints(using application firewalls or cloud security services)
• Setup of Cloud Foundations and Cloud best practices to help clients build their cloud footprints and adopt its management
• Precision to use the right Cloud services based on clients requirements
• Past architecture implementations on Kubernetes - pods, services, ingress(default and 3rd party like Nginx), service mesh(like Tanzu), best practices
• Basic experience with programming languages such as Python or Java or Golang
• Experienced in IaC(Terraform), Vaults, and scripting languages such as BASH, Shell or Powershell
• Implementation of processes within Clients environment, such as implementation of devops model for CICD, operations for visibility, etc
• Design, and prototype new solutions for smoother delivery, implement self-healing, and alerting capabilities for mission critical applications
• Proven ability to consume Clients DevOps tools(such as Jenkins, Cloud Build, Bamboo, Trevor, Sonarqube, checkmarx, artifactory etc) to build DevSecOps pipelines
• Must have some experience in Application, and Data migration projects either for onprem data centers to Cloud or between Cloud to Cloud
• Work along with Account leads and Business team to grow the account based on future possible use cases
• Well versed in identifying the right service and databases based on requirement(such as SQL NoSql, Redis, data warehousing)
• Strong Linux System experience with an appetite to troubleshoot and guide team towards resolution
• Experience with Multi-regional architecture setup and aware about known issues at compute, and database level
• Certifications are added advantage such as CKAD, CKS, GCP Associate / Security / Networking / DevOps , AWS, Azure, Terraform, etc