Cloud Architect - AWS

lfalogic Solutions

Alfalogic Solutions

Requirement:

Employment: Direct / Permanent (Regular WFO)

Qualification: Any IT relevant degree

Work Location: Chennai

Overall Experience: Min 18+ years

Relevant Experience: Min 10+ years

Skills: Cloud Architecture

Certification: AWS

Joining Time: ASAP / within 30 days

Job Details:

Role

• The candidate will be responsible for the overall cloud strategy, architecture, and incorporation of cloud first practices in the organization.
• They will contribute deeply to system design, solution, and architecture to build industry leading applications and data platforms on cloud
• The Candidate will ensure that the systems on cloud are architected for fault tolerance, high availability, scalability, cost effective and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include but will not be restricted to:

• Defines architecture and roadmap for the organization to be on cloud
• Prepare technical direction and roadmap for cloud migrations and managing the implementation and technical solutions.
• Create systems and/or assist in large scale migrations to the cloud without impact, data loss and minimal downtime
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
• Create baseline cloud architecture for infra and applications and create tooling/systems for development team to be productive without having to worry about the end deployment state.
• Evaluate cloud best practices, reference architectures, techniques and software
• Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.
• Define, Measure, and improve Reliability Metrics, Observability (Monitoring, Logging-Tracing solutions), Ops process (Incident, Problem Management) and streamline automate release management.
• Partner professionally with business groups and resources across organizations to achieve goals and objectives.
• Creating and maintaining relevant documentation as and when required.
• Provide technical mentorship and direction to multiple software development teams on projects with a high level of complexity.
• Ensuring that cloud cost and usage are monitored regularly and required interventions are actioned on.

Technical requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or relevant field.
• Master’s or relevant Licensing or certifications will be preferred.
• 18 years or more experience with systems engineering/systems architecture, including Services Oriented Architectures
• In-depth knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) including system architecture, system design, and/or system implementation.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure components, including virtual machines, storage, network, and security services.
• Experience in designing and implementing data storage and management solutions in the cloud, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, and data lakes.
• Experience in migrating applications and data from on premises environments to the cloud and should be able to design and implement migration strategies.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and a demonstrated history of high-level technical expertise.
• Up to date knowledge of current computing trends.

Desired Personal Qualities and Behavior

• Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders and suppliers.
• Effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated cloud reports to management and other IT development partners.
• An appreciation of and an ability to positively resolve issues arising from different cultures.
• Positive attitude and a strong commitment to delivering quality work.