Cloud Solutions Architect

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.
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.