What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Insight Global?
Job Description
- This team is “FinOps” for the AWS infrastructure across the enterprise advising on architecture, cost optimization, and building out automation and tooling
- Solution AWS hardening and security, and evolving network architecture, design, and infrastructure
- Produce architecture blueprints that guide the development and implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple products, providing direction to technical teams during project delivery and ensuring implementations support technology and product roadmaps.
- The Cloud Solutions Architect provides their expertise in the development and maintenance of architecture standards and solutions that align with strategic goals and partner with product managers, business analysts, designers, and software engineers to navigate solution decisions.
- Responsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers.
- Define operational procedures and practices
- Define KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring and escalation procedures
- Accelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirements
- Identify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures.
- Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches.
- Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base; mentor and coach the internal team through internal training sessions.
- Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements Skills and Knowledge:
- Knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid clouds
- Extensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL and HTTP
- Hands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, Openstack, VMWare, ect) as well as load balancers and networking devices
- Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructures
- Development experience with database or application integration technology
- Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals
- Knowledge of Open Source architectures and/or past contributions to open source projects
- Design, development and operations experience with highly-available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems
- Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
Required Skills & Experience
- 7-10 years of DevOps experience
- AWS networking
- AWS solution architecture
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform (open to CloudFormation and Ansible)
- Python automation
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Cable/telecom background
The pay rate for this role varies depending on level and years of experience and will range from $75-$80/hour.
Salary : $75 - $80
