Title: Cloud Solutions Architect Location: Charlotte, NC / Denver, CO / St. Louis, MO (Onsite) Position: Contract
Description:
Produce architecture blueprints that guide the development and implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple products, providing direction to technical teams during project delivery and ensuring implementations support technology and product roadmaps.
The Cloud Solutions Architect provides their expertise in the development and maintenance of architecture standards and solutions that align with strategic goals and partner with product managers, business analysts, designers, and software engineers to navigate solution decisions.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers.
Define operational procedures and practices Define KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring and escalation procedures
Accelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirements
Identify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures.
Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches.
Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base; mentor and coach the internal team through internal training sessions.
Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements
Skills and Knowledge:
Knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid clouds
Extensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL and HTTP
Hands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, Openstack, VMWare, ect) as well as load balancers and networking devices
Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructures
Development experience with database or application integration technology
Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals
Knowledge of Open Source architectures and/or past contributions to open source projects
Design, development and operations experience with highly-available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems
Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
Professional Cloud Solutions Architect (PCSA) Certification. 2 - 5 years of experience.
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