What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Cloud Architect - 100% Remote (GC or USC only) position at Caliber Smart?
Position: Cloud Architect
Location: Minneapolis, MN (100% Remote)
Duration: 16 Months contract
GC or USC Only
Job Description
Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of the company.
Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.
Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, and allocate resources/workloads in a team environment. Sample project work may include:
Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
Providing technical decision-making with limited resources and precedence
Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
Using formal methods of systems analysis
Develop policy and procedure.
Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff).
Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
Provide knowledge transfer
Desired Skills
Five years of Cloud Architect experience
At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.
Effective customer service skills, including interacting frequently with end-users and other staff.
Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.
Cloud Design Desired Skills
Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Excellent understanding of cloud-shared responsibility and security models
Secure system design and development principles to conform to client
guidelines.
Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM,
SolarWinds, or others.
Experience providing governance around cloud services.
Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise
organizations, applications, and database services.
Cloud Solution Implementation Skills
Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform
and/or Azure Bicep.
Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
Best Regards,
Vishal
vishal@smartcaliber.com
www.smartcaliber.com
Truth Lies in Heart
Location: Minneapolis, MN (100% Remote)
Duration: 16 Months contract
GC or USC Only
Job Description
Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of the company.
Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.
Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, and allocate resources/workloads in a team environment. Sample project work may include:
Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
Providing technical decision-making with limited resources and precedence
Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
Using formal methods of systems analysis
Develop policy and procedure.
Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff).
Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
Provide knowledge transfer
Desired Skills
Five years of Cloud Architect experience
At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.
Effective customer service skills, including interacting frequently with end-users and other staff.
Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.
Cloud Design Desired Skills
Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure, Amazon
Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Excellent understanding of cloud-shared responsibility and security models
Secure system design and development principles to conform to client
guidelines.
Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM,
SolarWinds, or others.
Experience providing governance around cloud services.
Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise
organizations, applications, and database services.
Cloud Solution Implementation Skills
Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform
and/or Azure Bicep.
Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
Best Regards,
Vishal
vishal@smartcaliber.com
www.smartcaliber.com
Truth Lies in Heart
