Cloud Architect Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Cloud Architect to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements;
- Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc;
- Determines methods and procedures for new assignments with minimal guidance;
- Work with enterprise architecture, infrastructure services and application development organizations to choose appropriate technology solutions;
- Work closely with tech vendors, partners and design services firms;
- Drive intensive readiness testing across all selected cloud platforms;
- Collaborate with key partners, developers, product and program management;
- Recommend cost optimizations and to ensure cloud resources are operating as efficiently as possible;
- Identify recurring problems/bottlenecks and build the tools and processes to prevent problems from recurring;
- Work in an Agile Environment;
- Design reliable solutions with failure in mind;
- Support On-Call for operational issues;
- Evolve systems by championing changes that improve reliability and scalability;
- Manage and appropriately escalate delivery roadblocks, risks, issues, and challenges;
- Mentor colleagues within the team.
Requirements:
- Degree in a computer science or engineering field;
- Open Stack;
- Experience with ETL architectures, data movement technologies, and data ingest solutions;
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment;
- Demonstrated ability to make significant decisions and recommendations on complex issues to achieve long-term results and strategic objectives;
- Minimum of 8 years of Java/JVM enterprise application development experience;
- Displays a mastery of Windows Server 2012 and above, Active Directory, Group Policy, Hyper-V, and VMM;
- Expert level understanding of current vendor technology offerings in the hybrid cloud space;
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills;
- Desired certifications are preferred (MSCE/ITIL);
- Java and J2EE. Spring boot, spring cloud stack;
- Familiarity with common enterprise solutions(i.e., Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, VMWare, etc.);
- Deep level architecture knowledge of the leading public cloud providers;
- Provide technical writing support to proposals, based on availability;
- Experience with AWS and associated cloud technologies is a requirement.