Lead Cloud Architect

about the role

Cloud Architect will lead and deliver hands-on, business-oriented strategic and technical consulting to our clients for cloud infrastructure, automation solutions and solution architecture.

key responsibilities

Individuals in this role will partner with Google Cloud or AWS team and Searce Cloud Consulting teams to:

• Lead pre-sales & generate intelligent & better outcomes for our clients: Whiteboard client's current infrastructure environment and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud.

• Propose solutions to optimise cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practises for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.

• Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve.

• Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers. Define reusable components, frameworks, common schemas, standards & tools to be used.

• Manage project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.

• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.

• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts

Contribute to SoWs, technical project roadmaps, etc required for successful execution of projects leveraging Technical Scoping & Solutioning approach.

so, what are we looking for?

• Have you done infrastructure modernisation for digital natives, ISVs & Fintechs?

• Solution designed infra migration plans for 42,000U loaded racks to cloud?

• Have you tandem-jumped at least 50 times taking along a on-premise workloads client to safe-land onto a public cloud with a soft touchdown?

  Do you understand the innards of Apache web servers on Linux and Sharepoint Server Farms alike?

  Do you speak CloudFormation? Terraform? Do you listen to JSON?

  Do you love automating everything possible leveraging Python / Powershell / Bash?

• Are you a voracious reader keenly interested in the greatest innovations on the public cloud?

• This is a technology leadership position that challenges the client status quo by re-imagining the art of the possible.

• This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - ability to architect a solution, code, research, code more, research more and code some more, rebuild and re-architect, you get the drift.

• This role requires behavioural traits of risk taking, celebrating failures, "do whatever it takes to deliver" attitude and a growth mindset. This role is not for those who are comfortable with "business-as-usual".

preferred qualifications

• 8 - 10 years of experience with at least 5+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment

• DevOps experience required. Containers, Docker, Kubernetes (or equivalent) and using these technologies for the architecture of multi-region, load-balanced resilient microservices type platforms

• RedHat / Centos or Ubuntu / Debian - RHCE or equivalent desirable - Strong Linux skills. Windows Server (desirable - not mandatory)

• Deep knowledge in one or more of the following: Ansible, Puppet or Chef

• Patch management (RHN Satellite, Spacewalk, yum, WSUS etc)

• Excellent Networking, VPN and firewall knowledge especially for VPC type deployments

• Deep understanding of the Non Functional Requirements (NFRs) of projects and how Platform architecture can make systems secure, resilient and performant

• Hardened operating systems / security concerns, bastions, DMZs

• Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills

• Knowledge on programming on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies