Cloud Architect – GCP/AWS

📋 Description

• Participate in and facilitate architecture workshops, collaborating directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise clients and partners to deliver tailored solutions for their application deployment needs.

• Spearhead the creation of CloudFormation templates, Chef cookbooks, and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes.

• Work together to develop internal utilities and tools that empower you and your fellow AWS Engineers to operate efficiently at scale.

• Assist clients in architecting advanced cloud-based solutions on AWS and aid in designing migration strategies for transitioning existing workloads from data centers to the cloud. This includes conducting periodic architecture reviews and recommending enhancements to improve application performance and optimize costs.

• Document the technical framework and workflow of the architecture.

• Possess experience in delivering immutable infrastructure-as-code solutions utilizing tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and CloudFormation.

• Have experience in DevSecOps implementation projects in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or lead capacity, including designing DevOps solutions, establishing CI/CD pipelines, and implementing infrastructure automation and monitoring tools.

• Manage Source Code, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery using tools like AWS DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, and configure CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS native services or traditional DevOps tools (e.g., Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory).

• Exhibit strong capabilities in implementing pipelines and integrating tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub Actions, JIRA, Argo, Go, Urban Code, ELK, JFrog, Slack, Selenium, SonarQube, or other equivalent tools for Terraform, CI/CD, Automation, GitOps, GKE Automation, Anthos Config Management, and GCVE Automation. Demonstrate the ability to automate infrastructure, platform deployments, and configuration workflows utilizing Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, Anthos Config Management, and GCVE automation frameworks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong comprehension of Data Center components, primarily Systems, Storage, Networking & Security, Applications & Databases.

• Familiarity with Systems and Solutions Architecture.

• Practical experience and knowledge of Data Center technologies, Cloud Software, and interoperability.

• Over 8 years of experience in a technical architect role utilizing service and hosting solutions such as public cloud IaaS and PaaS platforms, primarily GCP and secondarily AWS.

• Hands-on experience in designing cloud-native architecture, implementing distributed, fault-tolerant enterprise applications for the Cloud (GCP/AWS).

• Proficient experience with (Terraform/Ansible/GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, Puppet, Chef).

• Strong multi-tier architecture skills.

• Comprehensive knowledge of Infrastructure design (Compute, Storage, Network) on GCP/AWS.

• Practical knowledge of cloud security (GCP/AWS) for both Linux and Windows.

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with scripting languages: YAML, Python, Shell, Bash, PowerShell, etc.

• Expertise in build tools like Jenkins to create reusable release pipelines and in release and configuration management tools such as Chef/Puppet/Ansible platforms.

• Experience with at least one configuration management tool (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Maven, etc.).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Generous vacation and paid time off policy.