Cloud Architect

IT Infrastructure Cloud and Datacenter

Remote | C2C – 6 Months to start with, extendable 12+ Months. To work in pacific time zone.

Defines, develops, documents and maintains standards, best practices, and deployment frameworks

Promotes the use of the defined IT standards within UMG business units to both technical and non-technical customers.

Engages with project teams to develop and agree technical infrastructure solutions for project deployments

Provides leadership and guidance to other members of the Technology teams

Lead infrastructure initiatives and projects regarding cloud/datacenter landscape

Perform hands on implementation services as required

Serve as technical escalation point from Tech Ops Center L2 resources

Oversee vendors work efforts on implementations

Manage technical project review meetings. Ensure project technical designs meet UMG’s operational requirements and are in compliance with UMG infrastructure and security standards

Other tasks as deemed necessary or appropriate

Skills/Abilities:

Proven ability to deliver key objectives within schedule and budget.

Strong working knowledge and certification of at least one public cloud provider AWS, Azure and Google

Strong Infrastructure background

Produce high-quality documentation, designs, presentations and plans, strategic roadmaps

Solid understanding/knowledge of implementation and architectural dependencies in globally distributed, redundant, HA and DR enabled configurations, backup/recovery technology

Solid working knowledge of hardware (SAN's and servers, FC switches, iSCSI, backup appliances and at least two or more vendors (HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco etc.)

Strong knowledge of deploying and migrating solutions to cloud, VMWare 6.5+, Windows Server, MS SQL, IIS, Linux in clustered, HA, single/multi-tenanted and globally distributed deployments, RDBMS, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, etc.

Experience of designing solutions and services, multi-tenanted web applications of scale, exposure to enterprise automation technologies and practices.

Experience managing infrastructure in hosted and cloud environments, especially transition to cloud

Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

Work experience with information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools.

Large-scale distributed systems architecture.

System performance tuning.

Strong leadership skills.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Excellent interpersonal skills.

Ability to conduct and direct research into IT issues and products as required.

Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.

Highly self-motivated and self-directed.

Keen attention to detail.

Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Exceptional customer service orientation.

Record of progressive management experience culminating at the Director Level

10 years minimum Experience in delivering IT infrastructure and cloud projects with multiple stakeholders and delivery teams including design/architecture experience.

Education:

BA or BS degree in an IT related field or an equivalent combination of formal education and applicable experience required

AWS, GCP and Linux/ MCSE certifications strongly preferred

Requirements

Things to note:

The role more of (Techno-project management role)

Notes: Linux Administrator

They will working in Ec2 instances

Cloud security (Basic knowledge)

Project management skillset

Load balancing / tuning.