Senior Cloud Architect

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Our client is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to join their team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of their organization. The Cloud Architect will work closely with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, engineers, Enterprise Architects, to ensure that solutions are designed to meet business requirements and are scalable, secure, operationally efficient and reliable.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• Design and implement cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of their organization.
• Ensure that cloud-based solutions are designed and implemented to meet industry best practices and comply with regulatory requirements and security by design.
  • Develop and maintain cloud architecture standards, policies, and procedures.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to project teams as needed.
  • Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud-based solutions.
  • Develop and establish the guidelines to ensure other product owners, optimize infrastructure costs, licensing, sizing.
  • Develop and maintain relevant Security standards
• Collaborate with peer Engineers using Agile Delivery (SAFe framework) and by ensuring Delivery Automation, Continuous Testing and Continuous Deployment (DevOps)
• Research best practices and provide roadmap to ensure alignment with Cloud’s Well Architecture Framework
• Provide thought leadership and guidance on cloud architecture best practices, with high focus on Automation of both Delivery and Operations.

FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture& Infrastructure Operations, with a focus on Azure (alternatively AWS, GCP) and/or private Cloud.
• Proven experience with Cloud transformation projects and cloud-governance& design principles
• Excellent knowledge of cloud security and policies
• Very Good knowledge of cloud automation (policy or Infrastructure as Code)
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Desired experience of IT services in complex multinational environments
• Holder of relevant certifications for Cloud, Microsoft technologies, Container technologies,
• Good understanding of mission critical architectures, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, implementation and testing
• experience in migrating large size systems to cloud [e.g. CRM, ERP, BW]
• Experience in working with multinational distributed virtual teams is considered benefit
• Experience in Azure Cloud is a major advantage
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Communication, organizational and analytical skills