Cloud Lead Software Engineer / Architect

Title: Cloud Lead Software Engineer / Architect Location: Warren, NJ (Onsite) Position: Contract

Note: This role is suitable for people who have: A client-facing technology consulting background focusing on business requirement gathering, architecting and technology enablement across complex public cloud solutions Experience of developing and managing business requirements gathering and architecture design work as part of a customer engagement team Experience of managing technical teams to deliver cloud transformational projects or change programs Excellent written and verbal communication and customer facing skills

Tools and Technologies:
Cloud Platforms: Azure / Google Cloud Platform/ Oracle/ AWS
Ticketing tools service now
Provisioning tools Puppet, Terraform
Configuration management tools Puppet
Version control software git, GitHub
Infrastructure-as-code ARM Templates, PowerShell, Shell script
Containerization tools Docker
Orchestration tools Kubernetes, Open Shift
DevOps automation tools Azure DevOps
CI/CD tools Jenkins
OS Linux RHEL, SUSE all flavors, Windows servers

Mandatory & Desired Skills:
Demonstrated experience and organizational skills and ability to lead a team of 80+ strong technical globally disperse consultants -including managers in multiple operational domains
Experience mentoring and developing managers
Demonstrated experience with operations adoption of IaaC in Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or AWS
Significant familiarity with 3 or more domains (e.g cloud platforms, security, infrastructure, tech strategy, business strategy, etc
Strong public cloud experience with 10+ years of architectural expertise with 2+ years of direct leadership experience including, but not limited to, strategy setting, operational excellence, and efficiency
Demonstrated ability to design complex architectures and understand the technical roles needed to organize a team to develop technical solution
Proven experience in leading large complex technical cloud initiatives in regulated environment leveraging Change, Problem, and Incident Management processes.
Excellent skills in the areas of interpersonal communication, self-awareness, social acumen, team building and personal credibility
Application performance monitoring tools Dynatrace
Reporting tools Splunk, Power BI

Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for managing and delivering
Cloud Administration and Support Services
Site Reliability Engineering Services
Database Administration and Support Services
Middleware Systems Administration and Support Services
Batch Job Administration and Support Services.
Lead & manage a team of technical cloud consultants including setting goals, expectations, and ensuring team alignment to corporate metrics
Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development to team members
Grow and manage the team through establishment of appropriate people development processes hiring, frequent feedback loops, and appropriate adjustments
The successful candidate will also add value as an important team member for the industrialization of Client s cloud solution processes with the objective of improving efficiencies, solution accuracy and continually increasing technical cloud expertise as market expectation and cloud services continue to evolve.
Work closely with customers, Clients sales, 3rd party providers and other business units to ensure consulting engagements are successful.
Responsible for understanding the client s technical business and cloud needs and accurately translating the needs into technical requirements to successfully design and deliver a cloud-based solution.
Analyze and make recommendations for a change program in order to drive operational efficiencies based on moving to a cloud /DevSecOps operating model
Provide architecture overview and quality assurance for programs
Shape overall solution with customer teams and progress to design and implementation stage
Work with customer technology, application, security and business stakeholders to ensure that all requirements are gathered and documented to the agreed plan
Potentially own the delivery plan and assume delivery manager role for team of multiple resources
Perform due diligence on proposed designs, identifying potential issues with the execution and operational architectures and recommend possible options
Interface with other technology groups to promote common tools and standards at a global level
Perform impact analysis of proposed major changes to the process / technology landscape of customer systems
Maintain a close relationship with customers architecture teams
Communicate at C-level verbally, in writing and be comfortable giving presentations at this level