Lead Cloud Architect

Job Description Position : Lead Cloud Architect Experience: 15+yrs/7+yrs Location: Noida(Onsite) Budget: 2.8lpm 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