Cloud Architect

Key Points:Job type: ContractOnsite (5 days)Location: NoidaRoles and Responsibilities:● Work collaboratively within integrated, cross-functional teams to deliver comprehensive solutionsto implement SaaS solutions in different AWS, Azure, GCP public clouds and VMWare privateclouds.● Responsible for building and overseeing the cloud systems, including servers, storage, andnetwork 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 andPod levels.● Build observability in the platform using open source or commercially available tools that allowsto 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 ofthe services and applications in the SaaS product.● Configure alarms, triggers, and scale units to enable automatic horizontal scaling of nodes behinda 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 practicesusing cloud services;● Able to come up with the solution that can overcome the shortcomings of the open source orcommercial tool(s) used in the platform build.● Analyzing new and existing public cloud services and creating solutions that meet stakeholderrequirements and standards.● We believe in knowledge sharing. So we strongly encourage our engineers to contribute to theopen source community● Have good experience with CICD, RESTful, gRPC APIs and SRE practices and apply in yourwork daily.● Bring strong analytical, diagnostic and problem solving skills with the ability to independentlycreate 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, APIGateways (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 orequivalent practical experienceLocation: Noida