Job Title: Cloud Native Enterprise Architect / Senior Solution Architect
Location: USA Remote
Job Type: Contractor
Primary Skills (Mandatory):
- 10+ years of Infrastructure Architecture experience
- Cloud Native Architecture
- Kubernetes / OpenShift / Rancher / Rafay
- VMware or Red Hat Virtualization
- Customer Consulting / Presales experience
Secondary Skills (Preferred):
- KVM
- Compliance Frameworks
- Hyper-V (Nutanix)
- Terraform / Ansible
Pre-sales-only or Managed Services-only profiles are not preferred.
Additional Requirement:
- Candidates should be flexible to work in any shift and work model as required.
- Strong technical expertise and architectural background. In-depth technical expertise is a must (Only strategic experience would not fly)
- Customer-facing experience and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong consulting background mandatory.
- Experience handling large, multi-million-dollar, multi-country projects.
- Typically, 15–20+ years of experience.
Job Description:
We are looking for a few experienced Hybrid Cloud Enterprise/Senior Solution Architect with hands on experience on each the following areas.
- Cloud-native platforms and containers — architecture, implementation, and operations experience with Kubernetes and enterprise distributions such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, SUSE Rancher, or Rafay. Experience should include cluster design, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, security, observability, upgrades, resilience, and workload lifecycle management.
Platform engineering and application delivery — experience designing automated developer platforms and software delivery workflows using GitOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, policy as code, secrets management, container registries, software supply-chain controls, service mesh, observability, and site reliability engineering practices.
As a Cloud Native Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution Architect, you will advise customers and define and deliver hybrid-cloud strategies and architectures aligned with their business and technology requirements. You will design, guide the implementation of, and optimise cloud-native solutions that improve scalability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency across complex enterprise environments.
This position requires a strong blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership to work closely with cross-functional teams in IT, security, and business units to drive cloud transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture and design of cloud native, ensuring alignment with our customer's business requirements.
- Advise, develop, integrate and implement solutions in the cloud native technology areas ensuring seamless interoperability, security, and data governance.
- Provide architectural oversight for the design, deployment, and lifecycle management in cloud native technology areas, focusing on scalability, security, and performance.
- Collaborate with business leaders to understand enterprise-level requirements and translate them into effective, scalable cloud native architecture.
- Ensure that solutions adhere to industry standards, regulatory compliance (e.g., ISO, GDPR), and best practices for environment security, data privacy, and infrastructure resilience.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to teams involved in cloud native solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including blueprints, guidelines, and best practices for using these artefacts as standard reference across the delivery teams.
- Monitor industry trends and innovations to drive continuous improvement and stay ahead of technological advancements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (Master’s degree preferred).
- 10+ years of experience in IT architecture, with at least 5 years focusing Cloud native solutions.
- Deep expertise in above-mentioned technology areas , with a proven track record of architecting and deploying large-scale solutions in cloud native areas for customers.
- Deep knowledge and hands on experience of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix) and software-defined infrastructure (SDN, SDS).
- Strong background in security best practices, including identity management, access control, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
- Excellent understanding of networking, storage, and compute within cloud environments and how to optimize for performance and cost-efficiency.
- Strong experience in automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Preferred Skills & Certifications:
- Practical working experience and knowledge of Enterprise and solution architecture
- Industry specific knowledge – FSI, MDI, CME, etc
- Business continuity, risk management
- Communication, technical leadership, problem solving skills
- Stakeholder, customer escalation mgmt
- Familiarity with enterprise-level workload migrations from Vmware to other virtualization platforms/containers, etc
- Understanding of AI / Gen AI, its impact on security,
- Understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps principles and their application
- Cloud native related certifications such as CKA, CKS, RHCA, etc
- TOGAF or architecture related certification
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