Technical Architect

Mandatory Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Cloud services and constructs, such as VPC, VSI, ROKS/OpenShift, Kubernetes, Cloud Databases, Object Storage (COS), Monitoring and Log Analysis.
• Proven experience designing for high availability, disaster recovery, and continuity, including multi-zone/region architectures, backup/restore, and RTO/RPO planning.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform, IBM Cloud Schematics), CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows.
• Solid foundation in Linux, containers, networking (firewalls, load balancers, DNS, TLS) and platform operations.
• Strong understanding of security-by-design: IAM/RBAC, least privilege, workload identity, encryption, key management, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement.
• Demonstrated ability to perform architecture reviews, document decisions (ADR), assess risks, and present trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills; able to conduct training sessions and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SRE practices, reliability engineering, capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and internal control environments (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2) and aligning solutions to internal group rules and standards.
• Exposure to API gateways, eventing/queues, and integration patterns.
• Experience implementing observability stacks and defining SLOs/SLIs.
• Background in incident management, postmortems, and resilience testing.
• Certifications such as IBM Certified Solution Architect – Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, CKA/CKAD, TOGAF, or ITIL.
  

Responsibilities

• Review and provide actionable feedback on solution architectures proposed, ensuring compliance with internal policies, security baselines, observability standards, and production-readiness criteria.
• Validate designs against application continuity objectives, including RTO/RPO, HA, backup, DR strategy, failover/failback, chaos testing readiness, and runbook completeness.
• Publish and maintain architecture principles, standards, guardrails, and reference patterns for developers and infrastructure teams; drive adoption across squads.
• Guide implementation teams on provisioning and automation using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices (e.g., Terraform/Schematics, pipelines), including environment strategy, naming, tagging, secrets, and access control.
• Define production non-functionals and acceptance criteria across reliability, performance, capacity, cost efficiency, security, compliance, networking, and operability.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, SRE, and Application teams to resolve design gaps; propose constructive alternatives and trade-offs with clear rationale.
• Represent Production in application design discussions, vendor evaluations, change advisory boards, architecture review committees; clearly articulate Production s position, risks, and recommended mitigations.
• Develop and deliver information sessions, brown bags, and enablement on key initiatives, new standards, and platform capabilities.
• Create and evolve application reference architectures with policy enforcement and controls.
• Ensure observability by design, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, and dashboards; drive readiness checks prior to go-live.
• Contribute to incident postmortems and problem management with architectural remediations and resilience patterns.
• Track emerging internal cloud features and industry best practices; incorporate learnings into standards and roadmaps.
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

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