Cloud Application Architect (SRE Domain)

Cloud Application Architect (SRE Domain)

Location: Durham, NC, Westlake, TX Hybrid from SEP

Duration: 12+ months

Job Description:

• Wide spectrum knowledge of SRE architecture and frameworks across industry and major cloud vendors.
• Authority in infrastructure topology resiliency patterns and observability, and SRE practices.
• Proven understanding of Cloud Computing and DevOps concepts including CI/CD pipelines, chaos and performance testing in practice.
• Experience in the creation of Automated Deployment Pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory)
• Experience leading systems using infrastructure as code tools (IAM, ARM, Cloudformation, Terraform, Chef)
• Solid understanding across cloud infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs
• Hands-on Kubernetes skills and knowledge.
• AWS experience, and certification is a plus
• Excellent presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
• Passion for knowing the latest on technology trends to shift direction and get results.
• Passionate about technology and delivering solutions in integrated data environments.
• Detailed understanding of Data Exploration, Visual Analytics concepts and tools such as Tableau.
• Hands on experience Amazon web services is desired.
• Undergraduate degree in computer science or a related field ideally combined with an advanced technical degree.
• Strong solution architecture, engineering, and design skills.
• Passion and curiosity, work with others to foster ideas and produce creative solutions to difficult problems while making sensible choices balancing design and delivery.
• A strong influencer who can integrate optimally into the culture. Combine facilitation skills with a results' orientation to deliver excellence and execution.
• Organizational savvy and maturity, work optimally across different organizational units and business groups.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead cross-team collaboration and partnerships across a variety of internal and external constituencies.