Lead Cloud Architect

Job Description

Position Overview

The primary purpose of the role will be to undertake technical accountability for execution of below engagements across multiple private and/ or public cloud platforms

• Define enterprise cloud strategies with architecture assessments and migration focused analysis
• Definition of migration strategies and wave plans
• Create high level cloud platform architecture and design
• Review and approve detailed designs produced by the team
• Provide technical leadership for platform design, automated build and/ or migration of workloads

Total years of exp: Minimum of 15 years of total IT experience with strong foundation in systems and infrastructure domains 

Relevant exp: Minimum of 5 years of leading projects with focus on hybrid cloud design, build, migration and DevOps automation

Primary Responsibilities

• End to end technical accountability towards successful delivery of the engagement
• Work closely with our clients, program and project manager(s), technical staff and other IT stakeholders
• Translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into architectural designs
• Produce architecture and high-level designs and defend the solution design decisions 
• Application and infrastructure assessments towards developing an automated build and migration strategy
• Evaluate project requirements and determine actionable tasks with delivery estimates based on solution architecture approach
• Provide strong leadership thinking and technical guidance to assessment, planning, migration and build teams
• Review and approve detailed design documentation produced build and migration teams
• Identify dependencies and common infrastructure components, and to assess migration feasibility
• Validate automated infrastructure level test plans and their execution

Technical Skills:

 The applicant should have:

• Expert level hands-on working knowledge on atleast one of the cloud platforms – AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware or Azure Stack with intermediate architecture knowledge on the second and fundamental coverage of the rest
• Led and successfully delivered atleast one end to end large scale enterprise cloud architecture, design, build or migration project with multi tier applications
• Broad skill spectrum covering Hybrid Cloud based IaaS and PaaS platforms with experience in designing for cloud native container-based environment deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE)
• Good hands-on experience with CI/ CD automation tools, preferably cloud agnostic – Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins.
• Thorough understanding of assessment methodologies to develop fit for purpose enterprise cloud strategy
• Strong foundation across operating systems and core infrastructure tools – Active Directory, DNS
• Demonstrable architectural breadth across other infrastructure domains – Cloud networking, storage, backup, databases and cybersecurity