Cloud Architect

at  Nipro Europe Group Companies

ABOUT THE JOB

A Cloud Architect is responsible for setting and managing Nipro’s cloud strategy. This includes cloud adoption plans and cloud landing zone definition, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring. Cloud architects oversee application architecture and deployment in cloud environments and edge environments. He acts as a consultant to Nipro IT and Business (including NDTE and MIC) and thus need to stay current on the latest trends and technologies and actively shares cloud knowledge through leading workshops, giving trainings and being a lead in a project or product design.
The architectures and designs defined and governed by the Cloud Architect take into account not only the technical design of the various cloud components, but also information security in relation to data confidentiality and GDPR, availability and disaster recovery, monitoring, support and cost.
With regards to third parties (the cloud and service providers), the Cloud Architect is involved in the legal areas of cloud computing and supports negotiation of contracts and works with legal and procurement departments. The Cloud Architects ensure service-level agreement requirements are met.
Within Nipro, the Cloud Architect is responsible not only for Microsoft Azure, but also PaaS and SaaS solutions in other cloud environments, including SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and various cloud applications and platforms including, but not limited to, SAP SAC & Datasphere, IBM Maximo, Nipro NephroFlow, etc.
In the transition period working towards the Nipro CCoE, the Cloud Architect drives the implementation of Infrastructure as Code and is also is responsible for deployments of solutions in the cloud.

Domain knowledge:

• Obtain and stay current on several cloud certifications (including Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert, SAP Business Technology Platform | SAP Certified Associate),
• Share cloud knowledge within the organization, including NDTE and MIC, through leading workshops, giving training sessions, and (pro-) actively leading or participating in projects and product development, etc

Cloud design and architecture:

• Oversees cloud related environment (development of cloud infrastructure, includes life cycle rules, patching, retention, DR, ..),
• Responsible for architectural design and reviews,
• Collaborates with the business to design cloud applications. Present and defend designs in both business language to management and in technical language to peers and third parties,
• Leads and guides the cloud engineers and third-party teams and developers for planning, designing and implementing cloud solutions with best practices

Cloud implementation:

• Responsible for Landing Zone setup and maintenance through DevOps and IaC principles,
• Responsible for golden templates for setting up cloud platform, infrastructure, and applications,
• Responsible for reviewing and maintaining IaC templates and code, using version control and DevOps best practices,
• Keep the cloud platform updated,
• Responsible for the documentation of the environment/platform

Supplier, service level and cost management:

• Negotiate together with legal and procurement on Service Agreements and contracts with providers,
• Co-responsible for cost management and consumption optimizations, clearly setting, maintaining, and reporting cloud budgets, identifying and implementing cost improvements

Domain knowledge:

• Obtain and stay current on several cloud certifications (including Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert, SAP Business Technology Platform | SAP Certified Associate),
• Share cloud knowledge within the organization, including NDTE and MIC, through leading workshops, giving training sessions, and (pro-) actively leading or participating in projects and product development, etc.