Cloud Architect

· Act as the conceptual source SME for cloud end-to-end architecture solutions involving innovative system design, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

· Design, develop, install, configure, administer, and maintain highly scalable available elastic solutions that implement industry best practices using cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.

· Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations

· Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, capacity planning and management, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment

· Troubleshoot highly complex problems for which the analysis and resolution require extensive knowledge of many diverse system components

· Develop a library of deployable and documented cloud design patterns, based on the Stanford application portfolio, as a basis for deploying services to cloud

· Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services

· Enhances, evangelizes, and contributes to DevOps development principles, activities and complex development tasks (infrastructure as code, continuous integration and delivery, and designing for failure)

· Ensure critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery

· Develop long-range technology plans.

· Provide leadership and IT solutions for complex problems involving the cloud portfolio.

· Identify applicable new technologies through research, collaboration with peers, and participation in standards organizations, industry groups, panels, etc.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant discipline
• 7 to 10 plus years of related work experience. 2+ years of cloud development, implementation and design experience.
• Experience in the design and implementation of various Cloud based technologies (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• Strong working experience in AWS space with various AWS services and implementations (i.e. VPCs, SES, RC2, R3, Route 53, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Experiences with network security and monitoring tools
• Strong understanding of communication and networking components within the Cloud framework.
• Good understanding of Unix based operating systems, shell environments, and applications related to service provider networking.
• Strong skillset in the implementation of security standards in code such as OAuth, SAML, and other Tokenization and authentication methods and systems.
• Extremely strong experience in core development processes including SDLC and Agile.