Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description: SRE - Cloud Solution Architect (AWS, Azure, GCP)

This role is for a generalist with tangible experience in developing solutions for enterprise customers. Since this is a customer-facing role with an even split between pre-sales and implementation, some pre-sales experience is important.

Responsibilities

• Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership to customers while working with a world-class sales and business development team.

• Build deep relationships with clients as a trusted technical advisor on all matters related to public cloud, containerization, and modernization.

• Establish Cloud & DevOps CoE & C4E for large enterprise customers to drive successful transformation and adoption.

• Assess customers' cloud knowledge and readiness, support them through a structured development plan, and ensure successful delivery.

• Generate public cloud migration roadmaps and blueprints.

• Analyze application portfolios, identify dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assess migration feasibility.

• Demonstrate a solid understanding of large-scale public cloud implementations and contribute to design & architecture.

• Author and contribute to technical white papers, blog posts, and reusable content.

• Educate customers on best practices and ensure world-class solutions.

• Contribute to the development of engineering accelerators.

• Conduct educational sessions and design exercises for customers.

• Establish software best practices, analyze requirements & specifications, and design & develop solutions.

• Implement security measures related to the development process.

• Mentor and coach other members of the agile team.

Must Have

• 10+ years of experience, with at least 7+ years in public cloud transformation & DevOps.

• Strong understanding of the evolving DevOps, SRE, and Observability ecosystem in a hybrid cloud environment.

• 5+ years of experience working in an Agile team.

• Experience working with Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem.

• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST APIs & API Gateway principles and patterns.

• Background in Software Development, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, and/or Systems Engineering.

• Experience building and deploying solutions as containers on a cloud platform using an automated CI/CD pipeline.

• Experience in configuring, monitoring, and handling scaling infrastructure in the cloud.

• Hands-on experience with real-time observability solutions.

• Experience provisioning production and non-production environments in the cloud.

• Implemented advanced security, authentication, and single sign-on (SSO) across hybrid cloud.

• Implemented end-to-end automated delivery pipelines for continuous application development.

• Experience evaluating products/technology & creating IT Roadmaps for adoption.

Cloud-Specific Expertise

AWS Specific

• 5+ years AWS Architecture experience (highly desirable).

• AWS Solution Architect certification (highly desirable).

• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure, services, and their limitations.

• Expertise in Kubernetes and Elastic Kubernetes.

• Experience implementing a DevOps model on AWS.

Azure Specific

• 5+ years Azure Architecture experience (highly desirable).

• Microsoft Azure Architect (AZ-300/301 or equivalent) certification (highly desirable).

• Hands-on experience with Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD, and Azure Kubernetes.

• Experience with networking technologies such as:

  • Firewalls (L7), Load Balancers (F5, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway/WAF).

• Experience implementing a DevOps model using Azure DevOps.

Google Cloud Specific

• 3+ years GCP Architecture experience (highly desirable).

• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification (highly desirable).

• Experience implementing a DevOps model using GCP.

Added Advantage

• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of AWS, GCP, and Azure services.

• Industry certifications in Solutions Architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Skills

• Cloud Native Services

• Kubernetes

• CI/CD

AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, DevOps