Cloud Architect

Key Points: Job type: Contract Onsite (5 days) Location: Noida Roles and Responsibilities: ● Work collaboratively within integrated, cross-functional teams to deliver comprehensive solutions to implement SaaS solutions in different AWS, Azure, GCP public clouds and VMWare private clouds. ● Responsible for building and overseeing the cloud systems, including servers, storage, and network infrastructure. ● Build and maintain configuration and set-up best practices and guidelines for K8. ● Design and implement well architected solutions that allow K8 to scale at the infrastructure and Pod levels. ● Build observability in the platform using open source or commercially available tools that allows to have full control over the K8 environment and services running on it. ● Build networking solutions within and outside the K8 environment for the smooth functioning of the services and applications in the SaaS product. ● Configure alarms, triggers, and scale units to enable automatic horizontal scaling of nodes behind a load balancer or within a cluster; ● Collaborate with subject matter experts in areas such as wide area networks, directory services, etc. to solve integration challenges as required; ● Architect highly scalable, available, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices using cloud services; ● Able to come up with the solution that can overcome the shortcomings of the open source or commercial tool(s) used in the platform build. ● Analyzing new and existing public cloud services and creating solutions that meet stakeholder requirements and standards. ● We believe in knowledge sharing. So we strongly encourage our engineers to contribute to the open source community ● Have good experience with CICD, RESTful, gRPC APIs and SRE practices and apply in your work daily. ● Bring strong analytical, diagnostic and problem solving skills with the ability to independently create solutions and work with others in the team. ● Prepare and present the high level solutions, architecture diagrams, write requirements, specifications, and white boarding to C-level executives, managers and engineers in the team. Must Have Skills: ● Overall 15+ years of experience working in the field of Linux/Unix, AWS, GCP DevOps, Cloud, Containers and its echo system. ● 7+ years of hands-on working experience with Kubernetes and its components - control plane, data plane, containers - Docker, with deploying, managing and scaling on prem and in cloud. ● 2+ years of experience with Istio, Consul, automation using terraform/python, Helm charts. ● 3+ years of hands-on experience with setting up monitoring and Observability for Kubernetes. ● Have strong networking and storage knowledge in cloud, on-prem and K8. ● Experience with multi-node setup of ELK, GKE,Prometheus, Fluentbit, Kibana and Kafka, API Gateways (Kong preferred). ● Experience in networking, firewall, SSL certificates. ● Should have strong knowledge in public clouds AWS / GCP /Azure ● Strong experience in scripting. ● Strong experience in event driven microservices architecture ● Working with RESTful and gRPC APIs ● Experience with Git-Ops continuous delivery tools and DevOps/SRE practices. Good to Have Skills: ● Experience in building distributed, multi-region kubernetes clusters. ● 1+ years handson experience with Tanzu, VMWare Virtualization is needed. ● Good understanding of networking/firewall and storage in Kubernetes and in general. ● Understanding of container security (image, pod, network)● Experience in microservices with container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes ● Experience with troubleshooting production systems. Qualification: BE/BTech/MCA/ME/MTech/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience Location: Noida