Cloud Senior Architect - Hybrid

• Maintain thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers
• Maintain overall product design documentation and oversight; responsible for the overall architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it
• Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices
• Be an active member of Cloud center of excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance
• Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap
• Drive discussions in architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence on architectural decisions
• Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have security from the get-go model into Cloud platforms
• Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate
• Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders - engineering, operations, developers, and leadership

• Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform
• Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
• Deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments
• Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
• Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
• Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools - Splunk, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools - Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in infra-automation tools and general programming languages - Ansible, Java, python, etc.
• Expert level in one or more of the following: Cloud IAM, Cloud network and security design, Cloud IaaS design (including image creation/management with Packer), Native cloud services (i.e., CosmosDB, BigTable), Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS), or Red Hat Openshift public cloud design
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt
• Experience in Agile development practices and test driven development
• Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills

Desired skills:

• Hadoop
• Kafka
• KDB
• MongoDB
• Mulesoft ESB
• Python
• Cloud Architecture

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