Cloud Associate Technical Architect

Responsibilities

• Leverage cloud technology and platform capabilities to provide operationally sustainable solutions
• Provide regular updates and recommendations to EA on health and performance of production systems
• Implement monitoring, alerting, scale-up / scale-down strategies based on various utilization metrics
• Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture blueprints and documentation to ensure consistency and alignment with industry best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, security, and business stakeholders, to ensure seamless integration of cloud-based systems.
• Provide expert advice to project teams on use of integration technology, data architecture and modeling, system architecture including integration best practices
• Oversee critical steps within the Software Development Life Cycle components that impact enterprise wide development / architecture standards
• Ensures data privacy across all cloud platforms
• Provides guidance and leadership on designing performance solutions within a cloud platform
• Provides reasoned opinions about the cloud platforms design
• Provides cost-efficient solutions
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members and ensure adherence to architecture principles and standards.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging cloud technologies and services to stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
• Responding to production incidents and determining how we can prevent them in the future
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures
• Participate in release cycles &, integrating with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools, monitoring, and change management
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to see products through from conception to delivery
• Manage System documentation and participate in BCP, DR exercises for the Program's Services
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
• Improving continuous integration and delivery systems
• troubleshooting, debugging and incident resolution for CloudNative applications, systems & infrastructure platforms.

Required Skills & Education

• Strong technical skills in cloud computing, including experience with public and private cloud platforms such as AWS & Google Cloud.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing principles, including virtualization, containerization, microservices, and serverless computing.
• 6 to 9+ years of hands-on experience in managing Application middleware technology
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in deploying, operating and debugging server software on Linux & Windows at scale
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud Native Application Support
• 1+ years of production hands-on experience in Kubernetes/Docker container technology
• Hands-on experience with orchestration and system configuration tools (Terraform, Ansible , etc)
• Experience architecting integrated stack solutions (storage, network, compute) within an enterprise scale production environment
• Understanding of with functional programming languages (like Java, & Python, DotNet)
• Experienced with Scripting languages (like bash shell, PowerShell, Python, Java, Perl)
• Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking and common protocols like DNS and HTTP
• Understanding of major CI/CD approaches
• Experience with working in agile scrum teams, development, testing and DevOps in an enterprise software development environment
• Extensive knowledge of software build, test & deploy processes using Jenkins, Docker/containers, Kubernetes
• Intermediate level: Interpersonal and communication skills

Preferred

Knowledge in

• GCP, Kubernetes, Java, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Chef, Jenkins, Networking, DevOps,

• Automation, Mysql, GIT, Prometheus, Containers, Troubleshooting, Software Engineering,

• GCP certifications

• CKA/CKAD certified