Senior Cloud Architect Job Summary:

The Cloud Architect is an IT professional who designs, maintains, and evolves a cloud infrastructure for running applications.

Senior Cloud Architect Qualifications and Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the design, planning, implementation, and growth of the cloud infrastructure
• Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems as needed
• Assist with management of continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies
• Work alongside architecture, engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services as well as cloud-based disaster recovery solutions
• Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions
• Research and evaluate new cloud solutions per business requests
• Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when necessary
• Recommend process and architecture improvements
• Troubleshoot the system, solve problems across all platforms and application domains as needed
• Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to ensure the high quality of a company’s services and products

Senior Cloud Architect Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• 5 Years of experience designing and maintaining Cloud solutions
• Experience designing, building web environments on major Cloud platforms
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
• Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as IIS, JBoss, NGINX, Tomcat, and WebLogic
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, Splunk, and other Cloud monitoring solutions
• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
• Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
• Proficiency in script development, scripting languages, automation best practices
• The ability to be a team player
• The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Senior Cloud Architect Preferred Experience:

• Success working on high performance teams
• Delivered solutions in large scale enterprise environments
• Prior consulting or professional services experience
• Motivated to continually improve your craft, sharing and learning every day
• Exceptional integrity with the desire to create the best possible customer outcomes
• Understanding of the theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD)