Senior Principal Cloud Architect

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

 

Cloud Architect

 

Responsibilities

A cloud architect is primarily responsible for an organization’s cloud computing architecture. The cloud architect designs the overall cloud infrastructure, including selecting appropriate cloud services, defining network configurations, and ensuring scalability, security, and performance. It’s a senior-level position requiring a unique combination of technical, business, and interpersonal abilities.

• Identify the best cloud architecture options to help the organization accomplish its strategic goals
• Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in IT cloud infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities
• Develop, document, communicate, and enforce cloud technology strategies, best practices and standards
• Conduct research on emerging cloud technologies to support infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies to increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility
• Design, develop, and oversee the implementation of end-to-end IT cloud integrated systems
• Provide architectural consulting expertise, direction, and assistance to cloud engineers collaborating with other systems architects
• Monitor the organization’s cloud security posture in collaboration with IT security
• Respond to and troubleshoot incidents, fix and document problems, identify root causes and implement preventive measures in a timely and competent manner
• Assist with infrastructure migration strategies
• Translate project-specific requirements into a cloud structure that meets those requirements, as well as consider the project’s resource use and scalability requirements
• Participate and perform activities such as deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management inside the cloud framework that has been created
• Develop and manage an IT cloud infrastructure capacity plan

Required skills and qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on Azure or AWS platforms
• Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, networking and storage.
• Understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL.
• Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems.
• Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (CDN).
• Hands-on experience with core LAN/WAN network technologies.
• Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP, OSI and Networks
• Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

 

Preferred skills and qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Azure certifications

 

 

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