Cloud Architect

About the Role

Neuron is seeking a Cloud Architect to work with various Neuron departments from product managers, network engineers, development engineers, product security engineers, data engineers, support engineers, DevOps engineers and operations to ensure software quality and user experience / satisfaction for our customers. This position is hands-on, and it requires technical doer expertise. The position requires attention to detail for analysis of product requirements and customer needs to verify product quality and customer experience. Working on this technology you will have the opportunity to have a major impact on the implementation and quality of Neuron s next generation products. Our environment cultivates innovation and rapid product iteration within a creative solution space.

We need a dedicated, organized, and self-starter professional who thrives on being integral to a fast-paced startup environment. We need your skills as an excellent communicator who can set appropriate expectations, keep everyone apprised of progress and action items, manage cloud architecture and implementation, create automation scripts, evaluate test results, balance workloads, and ensure we meet our commitments. You also excel at dealing with the complexities associated with large enterprise customers.

What Youll Do

• Review system requirements
• Capture existing System and Cloud Architecture
• Recommend changes to Cloud Architecture and Cloud Strategy to meet scalability, availability, performance, security, cost, and compliance requirements.
• Recommend Cloud Deployment and Orchestration models including Virtual Machines, Containers, Orchestration tools, and networking configurations including VPN / secure tunnels, certificate management, and Firewalls / FWaaS.
• Automate deployment procedures including automation frameworks and runbooks
• Work with test teams to ensure Automated post deployment test validation
• Work with DevOps to ensure Automated monitoring of deployed components including performance monitoring, stability monitoring, high availability monitoring, and proper functionality monitoring.
• Work with Product Security to ensure that all deployments comply with Security Regulations and Customer Expectations.
• Communicate and Collaborate with sales engineering, business unit leads, acceptance test leads, DevOps leads to promote optimal processes for Cloud Architecture stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and improvement. Stay up to date with best practices, tools, architectures, etc for cloud deployments.
• Participate in customer feedback / lessons learned exercises and ensure that feedback is improves the customer experience and business outcomes required by our customers

What Youll Need

• Bachelor/Masters degree in computer science or related field or equivalent professional experience
• Expert level knowledge of Cloud Architecture with over 6 years of experience.
• Relative Certifications from Cloud Service Providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, etc are desired.

• Knowledge of Networking including VPNs, secure tunnels, sockets, TCP, UDP, IP, etc.
• Knowledge of Virtual Private Cloud concepts
• Experience with secure deployment for the cloud including bastion hosts / jump servers, secret servers, secure tunnels, IAM, etc.
• Knowledge of network issues that affect user experience including latency, jitter, throughput and packet loss
• Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools including expertise in terraform, ansible, chef, puppet, or similar.
• Working knowledge of testing tools and frameworks
• Experience with Linux servers
• Communication skills for customer interactions
• Problem solving skills
• Strong proficiency in Shell and Python with a solid understanding of scripting principles for use in a cloud environment.

What Well Offer

• Opportunity to work with a dynamic, fast paced, fast growing company
• Connectivity and content engineering and business knowledge
• Opportunity to work in cross-functional teams.
• Competitive health benefits that start on day one
• Generous paid time off policy
• Opportunities for hybrid office and remote work
• Enterprise Product end-to-end experience with direct customer feedback
• Travel Entertainment discounts (Cruises)
• Performance-based bonus
• International travel/vacation; a cruise or in-flight end-user experience
• Opportunity to work across teams and organizations.