Cloud Architect - Cloud Applications
Company: Request Technology, LLC
Location: Dallas
Posted on: May 16, 2022
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Job Description:
Cloud Architect SELLING POINTS: CLOUD PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY
AUTOMATION and CRITICAL CLOUD APPLICATION DISASTER RECOVERY. The
Cloud Architect Principal is responsible for leading the creation
of a cloud platform technology framework and providing technical
architecture and design leadership in support of corporate
initiatives in cloud computing and automation. Additionally, the
Cloud Architect Principal will be responsible for ensuring that
critical cloud applications are designed and optimized for
reliability, high availability and disaster recovery. Primary
Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an
individual must be able to perform each primary duty
satisfactorily. As a Cloud Architect Principal, you will perform a
range of activities required to design, implement, maintain and
continuously automate a large, complex cloud-based computing
environment. In addition, you will provide technical guidance to
team members and, when called upon, serve as a technical liaison
between internal departments. This will involve utilizing best
practices for the management, architecture, configuration, DR,
administration, and automation of the enterprise server
virtualization environment with cloud technologies. These
activities will drive the creation of new infrastructure and
environments, which will be critical to growth and adoption of
broad cloud/automation goals across the business. The ideal
candidate is passionate about new technologies and architecture and
keeps current with trends in the cloud platform and infrastructure
space, while always searching for ways to improve our systems as
technology evolves, with a steady eye towards the extensive
regulatory/compliance demands on our company (e.g. CIS, NIST, etc).
Serve as cloud architect principal by providing technical guidance
to other team members for the design, implementation and support of
new cloud platform architecture and automation technologies, as
well as updates and maintenance of existing cloud and automation
systems Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for
cloud, automation, and end-to-end architecture for IaaS, PaaS and
SaaS solutions Work closely with other teams to develop and promote
cloud-native application architectures (microservices, serverless,
containers), and application development and operations practices
Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology,
etc. and demonstrate forward thinking around how technology can
support where the organization is going Advocate and define cloud
architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including
internal and external platforms, tools, and systems Design,
configure, implement and support a fully automated workflow for
provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud
environment using infrastructure as code Develop and maintain a
library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design
scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the
cloud Enable DevOps development activities and complex development
tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka
and container management systems. Participate in cloud computing
environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and
support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life
preparation, and upgrades. Assist in the development of technology
roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans. Implement production
changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call
rotation; Serve as a point of escalation within the team for
production support issues Provide technical guidance to junior team
members Qualifications : Technical Skills: Strong hands-on
experience scripting/development skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Java,
JavaScript, etc. in a corporate environment Hands-on experience
with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Github, and
configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly
available mission critical environments for 24x7 availability
Experience working in an environment with a defined production
change control process and mature security controls posture
Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS,
Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc. Demonstrate knowledge of
cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy,
virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability) and DevOps tool
chains and processes Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented
analysis and design, and client/server systems Education and/or
Experience: Bachelor---s degree, preferably in a technical
discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent
combination of education and experience required 7 or more years
experience in IT systems installation, operations, design, and
architecture of virtualized servers / cloud systems Certificates or
Licenses: AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher
strongly desired; Relevant industry certifications such as
Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud are a plus
Keywords: Request Technology, LLC, Dallas , Cloud Architect - Cloud Applications, Other , Dallas, Texas
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