Cloud Architect

**Roles and Responsibilities**:
**1.** **Cloud Architecture and Design and Development**
- Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.
- Develop and organize cloud systems.
- Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
- Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
- Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the why, and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
- Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks.

**2.** **Consultation**
- Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.
- Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
- Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.

**3.** **Thought Leadership**
- Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements.
- Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts.
- Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.
- Experience designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.
- Knowledge of various IT ecosystems, Proficiency in One or more programming and coding languages Viz., Java/J2EE or Elixir or Python or Ruby.
- Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends, Knowledge of one or more cloud environments, such as Azure Cloud, Google Cloud, or AWS EC2.
- Strong understanding of SOA, Microservices, object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server systems.