Cloud Architect - Job Summary
The Cloud Architect is responsible for maintaining business-critical resources and infrastructure in order to keep the company’s SaaS operations intact. They also develop strategies that allow the company to grow and embrace new technologies while ensuring the security of cloud environments. This position offers opportunities to gain hands-on experience with rapidly evolving technologies in a constantly growing industry.
Responsibilities
Serve as an internal technology consultant and top escalation point for everything SaaS.
Provide leadership, expertise, analysis, and advice for the implementation and management of all business technology.
Develop and maintain backups and business continuity solutions of all critical systems, infrastructure, and their related management tools.
Research, procure, install, configure and maintain a wide range of software packages and solutions.
Provide architecting constancy for all new transformational and technology advancements in the enterprise.
Maintain documentation of all deployed software, configurations, licenses, certificates, and uses.
Extend and improve monitoring and alerting systems
Implementation of cloud services IaaS / PaaS like Virtual machines, AKS, API management, ACR, Storage, Database, etc using Terraform and Ansible
Configure network, connectivity, and security
Monitor and patching, security reviews, and policy adherence
Implement security and protect identities
Assist other teams with troubleshooting problems that may arise from applications or integration of various components
Communicate between various delivery functions and clients, both internal and external
Skills and Experience
Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Information Technology or equivalent experience.
Relevant Industry Certifications (Azure, AWS, Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft, etc.)
Strong cloud backup and storage knowledge.
Strong Windows Server (2003-2019) Administration (AD DS, DFS, ADFS, Remote Desktop Server, etc.) and Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu) experience.
Knowledge of cloud-based hosted solutions (Amazon/AWS, Azure, GCP etc.) and their relevant technologies (VPC/EC2/Transit Gateways/etc.)
Experience with authentication technologies (LDAP, SAML, Keycloak, etc.)
Scripting experience a plus (Powershell, BASH, etc.)
Experience with managing databases (SQLServer, PostgreSQL, .. )
Experience in monitoring solutions (PRTG, Dynatrace, Cloudwatch, … )
Experience in designing enterprise level cloud solutions.
Excellent communication and collaboration experience in client facing role.
Technical document writing and presentation skills.