Sr Cloud Architect

Job Description: 

 

About the role:

 

A Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure and services to align with organizational goals and technical requirements. This role involves developing cloud architecture strategies, deploying and managing cloud-based solutions, and automating processes to streamline operations. Ensuring the security and compliance of cloud environments is crucial, as is optimizing performance for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

 

A day in this role:

 

• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, from different business units, guiding architectural
• decisions and ensuring adherence to best practices
• Architect, build, document, and maintain Cloud standards and processes
• Collaborate extensively with centralized architecture, engaging in deep collaboration to align
• cloud strategies with enterprise architecture principles and standards. Additionally,
• demonstrate the ability to flex into Business units, understanding their processes and ways of
• doing things, and integrating cloud solutions to support their specific needs and objectives.
• Lead projects and new application implementations
• Create new Terraform architecture and modules to provision AWS resources
• Guide teams on best practices in the cloud
• Provide mentorship and training to junior and senior engineers, sharing knowledge and
• experience in cloud technologies, system wide architectural design, and best practices.
• Lead project management activities, including decomposing work into manageable tasks, coordinating with stakeholders, and tracking progress.
• Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster management, deployment strategies, and best practices for container orchestration.
• Work with Software Development teams to write and tune their application Helm charts for EKS
• Create, manage, and administrate Kubernetes running on EKS
• Possess advanced skills in AWS, including advanced networking, security,and optimization techniques,
• and stay current with new AWS services and features.
• Create and modify Jenkins pipelines to support CI and automation
• Performance Engineering, load testing, hotspot isolation, and remediation
• POC new solutions and production in the cloud
• Configure APM, SLO, SLA and alerting via Dynatrace
• Configure log metrics and analysis via Splunk
• Build and manage CI deployment process for all environments
• Support and enable teams to migrate from on-prem environments into AWSLearning: Research and explore new cloud technologies, services, and best practices to inform and enhance cloud strategies

 

The expertise requested:

 

• Expert level experience and understanding of Terraform
• Expert level diagraming and explaining complex or complicated systems
• Expert level experience with AWS serviceso EC2, ASG, SG, ALB/NLB/WAF, ACL, Routing, Route53, Express Connect/Transit Gateway, EC2
• Image Builder, EKS, ECS, ECR, Lambda
• Experienced in AWS database technologies
• Experienced using Git based CI/CD pipelines
• Experienced in utilizing various infrastructure and dependency discovery tools/agents
• Experienced writing Jenkins files and Jenkins Shared Libraries
• Expert level with EKS creation and administration
• Expert level with Kubernetes app