Cloud Architecture Design Engineer

Job Description:

As a seasoned Cloud Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the maturation of analytics development processes over time through flexibility and automation.

You will consult and provide expertise on technical solution options, and contribute to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data.

Additionally, you will remain up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to these solutions, evangelizing best practices for cloud architecture and the key pillars of cloud application operations.

Developing and ensuring delivery of resilient infrastructure designs using Infrastructure-as-Code is another key responsibility.

Furthermore, you will perform knowledge transfer for SRE, Application, and Support team resources when needed, diagnosing and resolving potentially complex infrastructure, integration, and application issues.

Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency, performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported, monitoring and supporting critical business applications to ensure SLAs are met, understanding and implementing defensive, detective, and corrective controls.

Lastly, you will assist in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud

Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs

Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals

Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, and Azure Data Factory

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Prefer Terraform; Related: Ansible, Puppet, ARM templates)

Automated CI/CD pipelines (Prefer GitHub Actions; Related: Jenkins, Argo CD)

Containerized workloads (Prefer AKS & Helm; Related: EKS, other K8s distributions, Docker, JFrog)

Serverless solutions (e.g. Logic Apps, Function Apps, Functions, WebJobs, AWS Lambda)

Logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)

Network Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Active Directory/RBAC, ACLs, NSG rules, private endpoints)

Benefits:

A strong technologist able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge.

The ability to act as a point of expertise, sharing knowledge and advising on best practices.

Strong budgeting/finance skills and experience with cost management.

Multicomponent system integration and troubleshooting.

Performance analysis and tuning.

Secrets management (Prefer Hashicorp Vault; Related: Azure Key Vault, Secrets Manager).

Kubernetes service meshes (Prefer Linkerd; Related: Istio, Traefik mesh).

Coding/scripting (e.g., Linux/Bash/Sh, Windows/PowerShell/Batch, Python, Java).

Event handling (e.g., Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Redis Streams, Event Hubs, Service Bus).

Load balancing and service proxies (e.g., Nginx, Traefik, HAProxy, F5).

Other Desirable Professional Experience and Skills:

Knowledge of SDLC and change control, and associated procedures.

Common source code control tools and repositories (e.g., Git/GitHub/GitLab, VS Code, SVN).

The ability to describe and discuss technical solutions with various audiences.

Education and Length of Professional Experience:

10+ years professional experience, including demonstrable success in project leadership roles.

5+ years professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform.

BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT, advanced degree preferred.

Industry certification for Cloud Developers/Architects (Prefer Azure; Related: AWS, GCP).

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