Sr Cloud Architect

Innova Solutions•Chandler, AZ

17h•Onsite

About The Position

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Cloud Architect. This is a Full Time - Contract position with a duration of 12+ Months, located in Chandler, AZ. As a Cloud Architect, you will maintain a thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers. You will maintain overall product design documentation and oversight, and be responsible for the overall architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it. You will provide expert-level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices. You will be an active member of the Cloud Center of Excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance. You will plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable the cloud roadmap, and drive discussions in the architecture review board, developing platform architecture artifacts and influencing architectural decisions. You will maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products and partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have a “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms. You will work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate. You will communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders – engineering, operations, developers, and leadership.

Requirements

Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-ascode, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform
Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments
Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools – Splunk, Prometheus, etc.
Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
Experience infra–automation tools and general programming languages – Ansible, Java, python, etc.
Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others: Cloud IAM
Cloud network and security design
Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.
Native cloud services (i.e., CosmosDB, BigTable, etc.)
Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation
Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation
Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, CloudFormation, Salt
Experience in Agile development practices and test driven development
Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills

Nice To Haves

DevOps
Microsoft Azure
Linux

Responsibilities

Maintain thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers
Maintain overall product design documentation and oversight.
Responsible for the overall architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it
Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices
Be an active member of Cloud center of excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance
Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap
Drive discussions in architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence on architectural decisions
Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products
Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms
Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate
Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders –engineering, operations, developers, and leadership