Cloud Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable data, networking, application cloud architecture
•Drive all technical design and execution activities to create or migrate cloud IaaS and PaaS architectures.
•Work with security team to implement the best practices to secure cloud environments
•Work with development team regarding the architecture, discuss problems and recommend solutions and improvements.
•Interact and work with application and business team members to provide the optimal environment for applications to deliver business functionality.
•Introduce and develop Infrastructure automation in the environment including IAC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated configuration management.
•Introduce and develop proactive monitoring, disaster recovery, logging and auditing to ensure maximum uptime for the cloud solution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
•Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or in related field
•5 - 10 years’ infrastructure or solution architecture experience designing and implementing cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
•Hands on experience with at least one of the three primary public clouds: AWS, GCP, or Azure (AWS preferred)
•Experience designing and implementing the following foundational elements in a cloud architecture:
•Network configuration, including but not limited to: Virtual Private Networks (VPN), forwarding rules, DNS, CDN, NAT)
•Identity and Access (IAM) configuration, including but not limited to: user and group administration, least privilege access design, organization, project and folder design.
•Security configuration, including but not limited to: network security, endpoint security, and data security
•Monitoring, Alerting, and Logging configuration including event threat detection, compliance monitoring, and data archival
•Billing configuration including labeling, cost monitoring and allocation.
•Experience designing and implementing automation solutions like Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions to build up and tear down infrastructure using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation
•Experienced in the architecture, design, device to cloud integration and development of internet of things software solutions
•Design and debug experience for solutions with server backend at scale, mobile and multiple web applications in a micro-service architecture