Sr. Cloud Architect

Sr. Cloud Architect Position Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certifications.
• 8+ years in an IT operational role supporting mission critical solutions or applications with 5+ years leading an infrastructure organization.
• 5+ years' experience in some or all of the following:
  • Engineering role supporting storage, compute, and virtualization.
  • Complex IT systems, data center infrastructure and software
  • Security concepts and systems hardening techniques to secure PCI and PII information
• 3+ years' experience supporting business services running in the public cloud.

• Expert knowledge/experience in any of the following:
  • Public Clouds/Virtual Private Clouds
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Ali Cloud
  • Private Cloud Infrastructure
    • OpenStack
    • VMware / vRealize / VMware Integrated OpenStack
• Ability to design a global end to end architecture that supports high service availability
• Industry standard Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Solid understanding of some or all of the following:
  • Operating Systems
  • Type 1 and Type 2 Virtualization Hypervisors
  • Software Defined Data Centers
  • Enterprise-grade Datacenter Compute Hardware
  • Storage: SAN, NAS, Object Storage, HDFS
  • Networking - TCP/IP, QoS, OSPF, BGP, L2 Networking, Spine and Leaf Topologies, Core, Distribution and/or Access Topology, SASE
  • Applications/Frameworks Tomcat, Play, Node.js, NginX, JavaEE, or HTML5
  • Process DevSecOps, CI/CD
• Experience in core enterprise applications and/or application development tools
• Experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Infrastructure Immutability, and/or API Driven Infrastructure

• Graduate Degree in a technical discipline
• Experience designing with application integration technologies (microservices, Web Services, REST)
• Lead and manage Well Architecture Framework (WAR)
• Experience in establishing and governing Cloud Center of Excellence ( CCoE )
• Experience with the contractual language supporting IaaS, PaaS and SaaS support models.
• One or more Cloud Certifications: CompTIA Cloud+, EMC Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional, VMWare VCP6: Cloud, Microsoft 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Google Cloud: Cloud Architect Professional
• Familiar with both relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB) database technologies.
• Experience working with Docker, Jenkins Containers, Container Orchestration, and Modern Application PaaS (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BlueMix, OpenShift Enterprise) solutions for application build and runtime management
• Supported infrastructure for retail and/or hospitality business
• Experience in developing and implementing strategic IT technologies and related processes, procedures, and decision support.
• Experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
• Experience in researching emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products
• Experience in developing technology roadmaps and strategies