Cloud Solutions Architect IV

Cloud Solutions Architect IV: Principal Engineer I

JOB SCOPE

Ideal candidate will be responsible for on-premise compute infrastructure evaluation, engineering, infrastructure QA automation, and continuous infrastructure lifecycle management. Additional responsibilities will include gap analysis and feature enhancement recommendations for current and existing platforms, to ensure operational stability expectations are met or exceeded for application owner service delivery. Directly interfacing with other product owners internal to the team, including Storage, Virtualization, and Network teams. Participate with cross-functional and cross-organization teams to develop solutions and strategies for Client s Software Defined Data Center.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.

Continuous evaluation and engineering of new and existing server infrastructure capabilities and features, to ensure requirements are met for both existing applications and new product services.

Contributes to architectural discussions, with both internal and external peers, to ensure proposed solutions are meeting business and operational needs.

Collaborates with other engineering and operational organizations to understand requirements and challenges and recommend solutions.

Responsible for automating the compute certification, bare metal provisioning automation, domain specific automations, etc.

Responsible for creation and maintain documentation including Compute Certifications, Implementation guides, bulletins, and design documents.

Sets standards for approved infrastructure deployments and integrations.

Support and maintain existing lab infrastructure leveraging defined ticketing and resource scheduling processes.

The ability to multi-task and juggle between priorities as needed.

Works with leadership to refine and effect current processes.

Performs other duties as requested by manager.

Mentor junior architects and engineers on cloud-native patterns and private cloud technologies.

Lead cross-functional technical teams during project execution and incident response.

Explore and prototype emerging technologies (e.g., edge computing, container orchestration in private cloud).

Champion continuous improvement and adoption of modern cloud-native paradigms in private cloud.

Create detailed technical documentation, runbooks, and architectural decision records (ADRs).

Conduct internal workshops, brown bags, and tech talks on private cloud patterns and practices.

BASIC / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering and/or related and/or equivalent work experience.

Extensive experience engineering, integrating and designing data center infrastructure solutions including rack/blade server hardware, virtualization platforms, SAN switching, storage technologies, basic networking and Cloud Management Platforms.

Extensive experience working with Composable Infrastructure such as Liqid or GigaIO

Advanced experience designing both physical and virtual solutions for cloud architectures leveraging both blade and rack mount server platforms.

Advanced experience designing and engineering Software Defined Data Center solutions for workload optimization and placement.

Advanced experience with Cisco UCS-X, UCS-C Series infrastructure, UCS Central and Cisco Intersight.

Advanced experience with Dell R Series servers and Dell OME

Advanced experience with HPE Proliant servers and HP One View

Advanced experience working with MaaS platforms and automated deployment

Advanced knowledge of Workflow Orchestration platforms, and Container technologies including openstack/mirantis, Kubernetes and Docker.

Proficient with BASH, Python, Javascript, Ansible, Terraform, Redfish or similar scripting language.

Advanced knowledge in robot framework to automate QA testing and robotic processes.

Understanding of infrastructure logging and monitoring solutions, for alerting and reporting.

Advanced experience with automated builds of new datacenter infrastructure deployments leveraging Workflow Automation platforms.

Advanced experienced in creating technical drawings and schematics using Lucid chart or visio.

Advanced experience working in a SAFe/Agile environment utilizing Jira Portfolio/Jira Align to manage projects and daily tasks.

Advanced experience with TestRail to streamline testing processes.

Experience with CMP service catalog creation.

PREFERED CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center (CCNP)

Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE)

VMWare Certified Professional (VCP-DCV)