Cloud Solution Architect Lead

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, 8+ years in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solution.
• 10 + years hands on development experience in infrastructure design
• 5 + years of Cloud based development
• Experience with leading enterprise cloud transformation programs
• Deep understanding of the SDLC lifecycle
• AWS or Azure Architect certification (both preferred)
• Hands on experience designing containerized solutions using Swarm and Kubernetes
• Experience working with Cloud Operations and designing automated solutions to manual tasks
  

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
• 8-11 years DevOps / SRE or related experience
• 5+ years of cloud-native software engineering experience
• Must have hands-on Kubernetes and Terraform experience in production deployment at enterprise level
• Passion for staying up to date of new and emerging technologies, providing technical strategy & direction while offering creative solutions
• Problem solving mindset to remove roadblocks and technical challenges
• Experience with cloud technologies, tools (Jenkins, Artifactory)and practices (CI/CD patterns, TDD, automated provisioning & release, GitOps, IaC)
• Technical leadership (DevOps/SRE mindset) experience on a highly agile team delivering business value incrementally
• Solid cloud and infrastructure experience with a working understanding of cloud infrastructure components at IaaS, PaaS & CaaS abstraction layers
• Solid understanding of software security and defensive coding techniques (defense in depth) and left shift security models (DevSecOps)
• Highly skilled in automation languages (e.g. Golang/Rust, Python) and configuration management tools (e.g., ansible, chef, puppet, and Salt)
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
• Knowledge of architecture and application design patterns
• Big picture strategic thinking looking at long term sustainability, innovative mindset
• Proven ability to work independently as well as with globally distributed teams
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code
• Explore and recommend new technologies/services. Articulate the advantages of various solution options
• Provide recommendations on architectural changes in order to improve efficiency, reliability and performance and to reduce cost
• Experience driving solutions for a broad Cloud portfolio focusing on core SRE/ DevSecOps principles, software engineering standard and ensure compliance