Cloud Architect

Job purpose

• Excellent exposure to AWS/Azure/GCP ecosystem and services, solid understanding and experience setting up and managing AWS infrastructure and services(EC2, S3, RDS VPC, IAM, Security groups, VPN etc.)
• Proficiency in networking and network security e.g. SSL/TLS certificates, VPN IPSec tunnels
• Knowledgeable of web/application servers and load balancers such as Amazon ELB, Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Http Server etc.
• Extensive experience with designing and managing AWS/Azure security using IAM,
• Should have Java/.net application development background.
• Solid understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practices, and experience in setting up a CI/CD to speed up software development and deployment process, using Jenkins, GitHub , plugins etc.
• Solid experience with build and scm tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Git, Jira, Sonaqube
• Sound knowledge on containerization concepts, Docker and Kubernetes and good working knowledge on various Kubernetes environments (standalone clusters and managed Kubernetes services like EKS, AKS).
• Good knowledge of Monitoring/Observability tools and processes inclusive CloudWatch, ELK stack, CloudTrail, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus. Infra monitoring using Nagios, Zabbix, New Relic
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM as infrastructure-as-code.
• Exposure to microservice architecture, experience with API gateway, Active Directory, Blue/Green deployments, Canary deployments is desirable.
• Experience with the serverless approaches using AWS Lambda/ Azure Functions is a plus.
• Prior migration experience with on-prem to AWS/Azure is definitely a plus.
• Exposure to Serverless deployment framework and SAM is a plus.
• Understanding of Agile principles and experience participating in scrums and agile processes
• Solid git experience essential, Bitbucket a plus
• Scripting Skills Groovy, Bash, Python

Preferred candidate profile

Duties and responsibilities

• Cloud platform Design & Architecture
• Migration of infrastructure/applications to hybrid cloud environments.
• Prepare and present potential technical solutions and advise customers, businesses, and product owners on the technical and business value of proposals, including appropriate trade-offs.
• Designs and implements cloud solutions/infrastructure for an organization/application, collaborating with customer stake holders and application architects, ensuring the smooth functioning of cloud systems with minimal downtime.
• Evaluation of cloud providers, Cloud applications, Hardware, and Software.
• Involve in Pre-sales/Development activities and provide cloud solutions to the customer.
• Architecting the solutions using cloud infrastructure and services for application/product development.
• Support Development team to leverage various cloud services/integration services to provide better value to the customer.
• Responsible for designing comprehensive security architecture that aligns with the organization's business objectives, risk tolerance, and regulatory requirements.
• Developing architectural solution considering the organization's existing IT infrastructure, systems, and applications to address security gaps and weaknesses.
• Establish best practices for cloud adoption, and work with IT teams to monitor cloud privacy and address technical issues.
• Manage code repositories and create branching strategies to improve software development efficiency.
• Good understanding on platform engineering and help team design/build efficient development systems.
• Systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation
• Write infrastructure as code using, Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
• Technical direction in the design and implementation of continuous integration and continuous delivery /deployment (CI /CD) processes in the form of a pipeline for the delivery of software across the enterprise.
• A commitment to best practices on operational processes for DevOps
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.
• Work in close coordination with the Engineering team to adhere to ISMS Policies and procedures.
• Designing and implementing cloud security strategies and policies that meet an organizations specific needs. Troubleshoot, identify, and fix problems in the DevSecOps domain.
• Ensuring the security of cloud-based data and applications against unauthorized access, theft, and other threats.
• Conducting regular security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and develop plans to address them.