Cloud Architect

Required Skills: Application Gateway, APIM, Azure AKS, Azure AD B2C, Azure Cosmos, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, Cloud Environment, Cloud Architecture, Azure IAM, Azure services, Azure networking, Cloud Security, IaC, Azure Governance

Job Description

In This Role, You Will

• Conduct design reviews of new and existing architectures.
• Create reference architectures and standards to enable effective solution delivery.
• Design solutions for performance and cost optimization.
• Design automation solutions for reusability and consistency.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architect Teams to review and create solution designs of new implementations or the introduction of new cloud technologies to ensure compliance with Medline standards.
• Mentor technical teams to ensure that cloud-based solutions are implemented effectively and efficiently.
• Create detailed architectural specifications to document the architecture decisions; communicate the architectural specifications to designers, developers, contractors, and business sponsors in a directly actionable, clear, and unambiguous manner.
• Identify technical risks upfront and bring them to the attention of management.
• Establish and enforce cloud policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, defining and monitoring governance frameworks for cloud operations, and managing risks associated with cloud adoption.
• Ensure alignment with business goals and objectives and facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure clear understanding and adherence to established standards.
• Stay current on cloud technology trends both in the industry and within the Medline landscape, including researching and implementing new and/or alternate technologies that will further business goals and provide competitive advantages.
• Develop cloud migration strategies to help organizations transition from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based solutions.
• Drive efficient cloud automation methodology for full infrastructure-as-code development and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide technical support to the IT team and stakeholders to ensure that cloud-based solutions are functioning effectively and efficiently.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience architecting and developing scalable, distributed, or web-based applications.
• Architecture experience with some or all of these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, and Identity and Access Management.
• Experience designing solutions using the Azure suite of PaaS offerings such as Application Gateway, APIM, Azure AKS, Azure AD B2C, Azure Cosmos, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Experience provisioning and managing Azure Infrastructure using automation.
• Experience migrating applications to the Azure cloud.
• Strong problem-solving characteristics with the ability to think out of the box.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal team members as well as business stakeholders and enjoy working with others in a collaborative fashion.
• Experience using Terraform to perform infrastructure as code preferred.