Agile Architect

Job Role: Agile Architect

Job Location: Noida, UP

Work Mode: (Hybrid/WFO)

Skills Required: Kubernetes

Experience: 10 -14 Yrs

Required Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of professional experience in customer-facing IT roles with a Bachelors degree (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of client-facing experience in:

• Assessments, designs, and advanced Day-2 Red Hat configuration.

• Cloud platforms, software-defined storage, container platforms, disaster recovery, monitoring, orchestration, microservices, and virtualization.

• Deployment and integration experience with at least one Hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform) OR one hosting provider (e.g., Rackspace).

• Experience with at least one additional hypervisor platform (VMware, Azure Stack HCI, or Hyper-V).

• Advanced knowledge in performing architecture reviews for:

• Re-platforming from one hypervisor to Red Hat platforms.

• Repatriating workloads from a hyperscaler to on-premises Red Hat platforms.

• Extensive knowledge across at least five (5) cloud architecture layers:

• Business Management

• Self-Service Portal

• Orchestration

• Container

• Integration with Hyperscalers

• Hyperconverged Platforms

• Networking (Micro-segmentation, Containerized Networking, Federation, IDS/IPS, Network Sandboxing, Global Advanced Load Balancing).

• Deep experience in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, AKS, and GKE.

• Strong experience in project planning: estimation, risk management, dependencies, and MVP design.

• Experience mapping client platform/application requirements into on-prem cloud services and configurations.

• Proven ability to lead delivery teams across multi-vendor environments in multiple countries.

• Strong experience in:

• Designing, developing, and owning end-to-end technical container platform solutions.

• Implementation, migration, and modernization efforts.

• OpenShift implementations in on-prem, public cloud, and private cloud.

• Client-facing expertise:

• Directly engaging with clients to solve complex business challenges.

• Right-sizing platforms based on business requirements.

• Acting as a trusted advisor, understanding client pain points, and aligning solutions with their industry.

• Ability to coordinate with partners and stakeholders to derive solutions.

• Skilled at promoting innovation and modernization through:

• Design thinking workshops.

• Agile methodologies.

Preferred Technical & Professional Expertise

• Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift certifications.
• Strong analytical, creative, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Detail-oriented with ability to provide suggestions and solutions for software development, use, and maintenance.
• Extensive experience in pre-sales, post-sales, and client presentations (orals).