Cloud Computing Architect

at  Performix

JOB DESCRIPTION

· Work with product managers, development teams, and other engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions which meet the needs of the client.
· Use project management principles and practices sufficient to determine program direction, plan work, set goals, and monitor and evaluate accomplishments.
· Lead complex projects, write project plans, establish priorities, allocate resources/workloads in team environment. Sample project work may include:
· Designing complex processes and measurement metrics
· Applying research and analytical skills in evaluating new technologies
· Providing technical decision making with limited resources and precedence
· Developing specific solutions for unique and unprecedented problems
· Analyzing technical problems and implementing solutions under tight time constraints
· Using formal methods of systems analysis
· Develop policy and procedure.
· Create documentation, design, and technical artifacts in Microsoft Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
· Use verbal and written communications to interact technically with staff and vendor representatives and functionally with users (present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical staff).
· Present clear and concise reports to executive management/leadership.
· Provide knowledge transfer

DESIRED SKILLS

· Five years of Cloud Architect experience
· At least two engagements with two different entities in a Cloud Architect role
· Knowledge of Agile project management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff/end-users.
· Effective customer service skills, including the ability to interact frequently with end-users and other staff.
· Sophisticated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to create and test hypotheses based on relative likelihood, and a willingness and ability to creatively consider all possible causes for a problem and test appropriately.

CLOUD DESIGN DESIRED SKILLS

· Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions leveraging, Microsoft Azure, Amazon
· Web Services, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
· Excellent understanding of cloud shared responsibility and security models
· Secure system design and development principles to conform to state and federal guidelines.
· Demonstrated ability to architect complex solutions on public cloud infrastructure.
· Experience with cloud Monitoring and Alerting Solutions, such as Azure Monitor, SCOM, SolarWinds, or others.
· Experience providing governance around cloud services.
· Experience in cloud migration planning, design, and process for large enterprise
· organizations, applications, and database services.
· Cloud Solution Implementation Skills
· Scripting with Python and/or PowerShell.
· Experience with Infrastructure Configuration Solutions, such as Azure Automation, Azure Orchestrator, SCCM Desired State Configuration, Azure Desired State Configuration, Puppet, Chef, or others.
· Designing and implementing with cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
· Knowledge and usage of AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager, Terraform and/or Azure Bicep.
· Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

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