CloudOps - Principal Architect

Job Description

Kindly share the resume to suhasini.swamy@quest-global.com Responsibilities: Team/Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership and expertise to architect, design and implement solutions for Day 1 and Day 2 cloud operations. Mentor and guide the team in all infrastructure related issues and provide technical training and act as advisory consultant. Responsible for adopting new cloud services and features for cloud operations. Deployment Management Lead design and implementation of resource provisioning for development and production Lead automated provisioning (Infrastructure as Code) of various deployment environments (development, staging & production) Establish DevSecOps pipeline to meet the compliance and security requirements for the cloud solutions Operations Management Lead operations of solutions deployed in customer cloud environment. Design optimal solutions for high availability and disaster discovery and Backup Ensure service reliability and meet customer SLAs. Lead the periodic assessment of the infra-architecture and adapt/propose latest solutions operations. Design and lead site reliability engineering activities for cloud infrastructures. Contribute to DevSecOps process development and automation tasks. Monitoring & Observability Design effective monitoring and observability constructs for cloud infrastructures. Design and implement Application Performance monitoring Establish resource monitoring, notification and alerting capabilities Enable AIOps for cloud solutions. Compliance & Auditing Recommend and design, operations, security and compliance practices. Enable Data Security and Data Privacy for cloud solutions Desing Network Security for the infrastructure. Enable Cloud Security Posture Management Establish Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) for cloud solutions Cloud Operations Governance Design policies and rules for cloud governance Lead and automate quarterly auditing and resource usage Cloud Financial Management Guide and lead cloud infrastructure cost optimization activities. Skills 15+Years of experience in cloud infrastructure administration and operations. 5+Years proven experience in leading teams in cloud operations. Strong understanding about Cloud security and Compliance Must have an in-depth knowledge in AWS or in any other leading cloud platform services and architecture. Strong understanding about the native services of the cloud platform that can be leveraged for CloudOps. Must have a good understanding about micro services and infrastructure correlations, also the operational challenges. Strong knowledge of Infrastructure Automation and relevant tools for Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and configuration management (Ansible, Terraform, CFN etc.). Strong understanding about the networking constructs in cloud platforms. Strong knowledge in cloud operational tools like Datadog, Dynatrace etc. to enable monitoring and observability. Strong knowledge in CSPM and SEIM. Should have good understanding about various controls in DevSecOps practices. Strong Linux systems administration skills in cloud or on-premises environment. Strong troubleshooting skills. Strong knowledge in implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies for cloud infrastructures. Should have Security/DevOps/Administration specialty certifications in any of the popular cloud platforms.