Cloud Architect

Role : Clould Architect (Onsite: Dallas TX/ Jersey City, NJ)Primary Technology : Kubernetes, AWS, Cloud ArchitectureSecondary Technology (Nice to Have) : Terraform, Rundeck, JenkinsMandatory Skillset : Kubernetes, AWS, Cloud Certification, Architecture Process & DocumentationNice to Have Skillset : Programming skills, Infrastrucutre as Code

• Hands-on Technical Architect.
• Expertise in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Be a strong technologist with pragmatic view and creative mind, and a natural collaborator with line of business architects, engineers, developers, application owners, service providers, and senior management
• Provide a detailed understanding of cloud infrastructure services and well-architected principles
• Possess significant breadth across other disciplines (e.g., enterprise security architecture, compute services, storage, large-scale networking, virtualisation, data center, integration architecture (API), orchestration technologies, systems resiliency, service support, application development lifecycle management(DevOps), and service delivery)
• Advise on the refactoring and design of preexisting software to help increase its cloud relevancy
• Proven experience in assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunity for existing applications to take advantage of modern application architectures (e.g. microservices, containers)
• Proven experience with cloud software, platforms and/or infrastructures as an architect
• Experience with the assessment, implementation, management and documentation of a broad set of information technologies and processes within a cloud environment
• Experience designing cloud ready solutions, including creating artifacts, models, and strategy presentations
• Experience in application assessment to determine best fit and opportunity for leveraging cloud services and establishing and managing a cloud migration/adoption pipeline
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end information technology (IT) process, including architecture, design & engineering, implementation, and operations
• Ability to provide direction and guidance on architectural use cases and requirements for related efforts
• Strategically oriented and can influence at the group and Firm level as needed
• Experience in risk and risk control compliance