Associate Director

Min 15-20 years of experience, this cloud architect is a seasoned professional with deep expertise across major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI) and a strong track record of guiding customers through cloud adoption journeys. Here's a breakdown of their likely roles and responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning and Design
• Cloud Adoption Strategy: Collaborate with stakeholders to define a comprehensive cloud adoption strategy aligned with business goals. This includes cost optimization, scalability, security, and compliance considerations.
• Cloud Architecture Design: Design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architectures across various cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI) based on specific customer requirements. From POC to dev, test, production and support.
• Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Expertise: Design and implement hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that seamlessly integrate on-premises infrastructure with cloud environments.
• Migration and Implementation
• Cloud Migration Planning & Execution: Lead complex cloud migration projects from on-premises to cloud or across cloud platforms. This involves planning, resource migration, application refactoring, and cutover strategies.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across cloud platforms.
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to strict security best practices and compliance requirements in the cloud environment.
• Management and Optimization
• Cloud Cost Management: Continuously monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization to minimize costs and identify potential savings opportunities.
• Cloud Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure performance to ensure high availability, scalability, and responsiveness of applications.
• Cloud Governance & Automation: Develop and implement cloud governance policies and procedures to ensure efficient and secure cloud resource management.
• Additional Responsibilities
• Staying Current: Continuously stay updated with the latest cloud technologies, services, and best practices across all major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI).
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior cloud architects and engineers.
• Communication & Collaboration: Effectively communicate complex cloud concepts to stakeholders with varying technical backgrounds. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Security) to ensure successful cloud adoption.

Additional points.

• Presales experience in providing solution on application cloud migration from on premises to cloud
• Technical experience on tools for migration
• Should have hands on experience in migrating application migration
• Should have done discovery, assessment of as is applications, create complexity mapping and provide approach to migrate it to cloud
• Should have experience in all services in AWS and Azure
• This is a customer facing role, should participate in RFP and proactive solution pitches
• Should develop accelerators or identify tools to fast track migration
• Should have background on pricing and resource loading to carry out a project.

Additional Job Description

• Hands on knowledge to do assessment, migration and setup new cloud.
• Should have professional certifications and specialization in AWS, Azure and OCI
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience in an enterprise environment.
• Minimum of 4+ years as cloud migration consultant
• Knowledge of compute, network, storage and virtualization
• Experience working in an agile development environment and project management
• Familiarity with cloud frameworks and containers.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure and the compute stack based on Linux, and/or Windows, the management tools, and the network integration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience in all aspects of cloud computing (e.g. infrastructure, storage, platforms, data etc.)
• Experience of architecture, design, and implementation of complex, highly available and highly scalable Cloud solutions
• Strong knowledge in Cloud-best practices and hands-on experience in design, implementation, and/or support of cloud migrations
• Previous experience in cloud migration using various tools and technologies is a must.
• Preferred only from service-based companies.