Principal Cloud Services Architect

Axway Software SA•Scottsdale, AZ

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking our new Principal Cloud Services Architect to join the Axway team! Axway is currently seeking a Principal Cloud Services Architect who has a high level of technical expertise in industry-leading Infrastructure as Services (IaaS) providers like AWS and their services. They will have a proven track record of helping organizations to implement and operate mission-critical production workloads on AWS.

Requirements

9+ years of Experience with working on AWS Infrastructure services (Architecture/administration/operations)
Strong working knowledge of AWS services: EC2, EBS, S3, EKS, Route53, IAM, Load balancers, ACM VPN, VPC, Private Link, Transit Gateway, WAF, RDS, Systems Manager, Billing, Trusted Advisor, SSO, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Backup, and Lambda.
Should be proficient in Terraform, Python, Ruby, Bash, and PowerShell
Proficiency in Linux/Unix and Windows OS is a must.
Good working knowledge of Networking concepts and tools: Routing, Switching, Firewall security, Proxy, Reverse Proxy, HAProxy, Nginx
Experience in using the tools: GiT, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible
Experience with System hardening guidelines, e.g., CIS, NIST
Experience with Infrastructure Monitoring tools is required.
Strong knowledge on Kubernetes platform
Experience in working with Ticketing tools like Salesforce, Service Now, and Jira is preferred.
Require minimal supervision and work well in the Production Operations team.
Ability to work efficiently under pressure on non-routine and highly complex tasks.
Team player with strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work in a multicultural team spread across the globe (Europe, India, NA)
Must have a customer-first mindset.

Nice To Haves

AWS Solution Architect certification is a plus.
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure is a plus.

Responsibilities

Design and implement cloud and hybrid (mix of cloud and on-premises) based infrastructure solutions that include both virtualized compute and storage.
Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions that span the cloud and on-premises.
Design and implement VPCs to deploy mission-critical production applications using AWS infrastructure services.
Act as a Technical Lead for customers' onboarding projects and work with Customers to establish G2C connectivity.
Install, configure, implement,t and support Windows/Linux servers,s including management of user/group accounts & policies, integration to Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Active Directory Federation Services
Manage the patching regime of all systems.
Manage the global hosting asset/inventory and perform lifecycle planning and execution.
Manage monitoring systems such as Prometheus, Nagios, or equivalent.
Manage other hosting-related technologies such as proxy/web filtering, load balancers, WAF, backup and replication solutions, and so forth, such as NetApp ONTAP, GlusterFS, EFS, etc.
Provide L3 support for the cloud infrastructure team on AWS, Storage, Cloud Networking, and Linux platforms.
Create and review monthly operations reports.
Define SOPs and participate in Audits and DR activities.
Ensure all solutions comply with corporate security policies and standards.
Gather design requirements from stakeholders (e.g., Business and application groups) and translate them into functional and technical requirements.
Automate repeatable activities.
Able to perform Capacity Planning on the customer environment on Managed Cloud and provide recommendations for improving availability and cost optimization.
Manage the lifecycle of all requests and incidents that arise, driving for the root cause of problems to prevent incidents from recurring.
Participate in after-hours support (on call) and scheduled implementation activities as required.