Cloud Practice Architect

2 Days ago • 8-11 Years

About the job

Summary_{By Outscal}

Designs, develops and implements cloud-based solutions. Designs cloud architecture and completes plans and specifications to develop solutions. Collaborates with product managers and engineers to develop specifications for new cloud based products/services, applications and solutions. Drives the rollout of cloud management platforms, evaluates its performance and implements enhancements. Develops and enriches the product portfolio of cloud services and value-added services. Responsible for adhering to company security policies and procedures and any other relevant policies and standards as directed.

Job Duties:

Be an AWS evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS.
Help customers transition to the cloud in a high-value migration approach that leverages best of breed designs and practices delivered in an agile model.
Work with customers to enable a DevOps culture and modernize operations and release strategies.
Establish credibility and build impactful relationships with our customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new, or migrating existing, applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in AWS and to ensure our SAs are up to date.
Encourages others to listen attentively and engage with the speaker by asking appropriate openended questions; reflects on and reiterates key points and clarifies messages to help others reach agreement.
Monitors non-verbal reactions of others to identify and respond to areas of interest or concern.
Ensures all viewpoints have been heard and discussed before reaching conclusions, offering guidance or asserting own views.
Influences and coaches others across the business unit/function to work independently and identify areas for improvement in work processes.
Encourages and motivates people to achieve high standards of excellence by consistently raising the bar and coaching others to achieve results.
Sets challenging and realistic goals for others; proactively considers the business unit/function’s goals to prevent conflicts of interests and communicates goals to teams.
Provides guidance and expertise to analyze data and patterns and assess the root cause of complex, non-routine problems.
Collaborates with others across disciplines to brainstorm and execute solutions to the most complex, uncommon problems.
Guides the execution of solutions for complex, non-routine issues; redirects solution implementation if desired results were not originally met.
Creatively develops tools, visual aids and other original content to support the understanding/education of complex and technical information (e.g., legal, operational risk, and regulatory data).
Guides others on the best practices and approaches for creating clear, concise and organized communication materials to convey technical concepts in a user-friendly way.
Challenges others to bring fresh and creative perspective to differentiating technical communications and ensuring comprehension and ease-of-use for various audiences.
Exceeds customers’ expectations by listening for unexpressed needs; connects customer needs to relevant service offerings and new technology.
Leads others in resolving technical issues in a timely manner; follows up with customers to ensure satisfaction.
Partners with the business to integrate new technologies into business solutions; creates and communicates a vision of the technology requirements for the future state of the business.
Prioritizes workload and ensures that deadlines are successfully met; delegates or seeks additional staff when necessary.
Identifies short- and long-term barriers to completing project plans and takes corrective action to meet deliverable objectives.
Manages multifaceted projects or assignments, such as projects that have several separate components, with minimal error and without missing important deliverables.

Requirements:

Fluent, Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)
8 – 11 years of experience in the field of role required
Scripting/ Programing language/ Configuration Management/ Container (1 or more at 100 level)
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
VCS (Git Based VSC)

• family with commit, branch, merge, review process

• understand pre/post hook

• design/implement branching strategy (e.g., git flow, GitHub flow)

• design/implement group development collaboration process (access control, code review/approval, integration with other CI tools)

Artifact Repository familiar with one of the popular antifactory management tools
CI/CD tools

• implement CI services (VCS, antifactory repo, build, release)

• Design/implement CI/CD pipeline

• Operating System familiar with Linux or Windows OS

• Cloud Skill Baseline

• Automation

• IaC

use cloud IaC language to implement cloud resources or operation process
use orchestration tools to organize IaC code and inject configurations
CI/CD

• Implement CI services (VSC, Artifacts repo, build service pipeline service)

• implement CI/CD pipeline to build/deploy infrastructure or application

• design/implement best practice CI/CD

Landing Zone (Multi Account Framework)
Identity Access Management (IAM)
Security
Networking
Compute (VM, Container platform, Function)
Virtual Machine workload
Implement serverless solution for operational purpose
Data storage, Database
configuration management
Secret Management
Monitoring and Logging
Message Queues
Strong Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers.
Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly