Solution Architect

Cloud Architect, Solution designing, cloud migration, aws

**Responsibilities
- We are looking for hands-on cloud architects who will work with other Professional Services consultants in a project to:

- Analyse the customer’s existing infrastructure design including network, storage, computing resources, along with the operational processes / policies to design a secure, robust, and highly tolerant multi-account AWS environment based on AWS best practices.
- Work thoroughly based on the cloud best practises to ensure optimized solutions as pe the AWS well architected pillars.
- Help customers and partners to be prepared for cloud operations and identify the areas for automation to accelerate the migration and transformation of the organization.
- Establish the future operating model for cloud and plan, guide and support an efficient progression of the operational model during the migration.

**BASIC Qualification / Technical Skills
- Experience facilitating discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
- Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
- Experience with integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
- Experience in various virtualized environments.
- Excellent exposure Cloud Technologies (Amazon Web Services) with Strong understanding about all available AWS cloud services in IaaS & PaaS offerings.
- Familiarity with datacentre concepts and best practices, high-availability systems, capacity planning, system performance evaluation, and diagnostic techniques and methodologies.
- Good understanding with respect to both Infra & Application working / flow / deployment.
- Good understanding of DevOps technologies such as CI/CD, Containers etc

**PREFERRED Qualification / Technical Skills**
- Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Leading highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Large scale migration experience: Data Centre to Data Centre and/or Data Centre to Cloud
- Scripting and/or coding skills in Infrastructure orchestration & automation tools (Examples include but are not limited to: CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, Bash).
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
- Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications
- Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

**Requirements**:

- 3-6 yrs of overall experience with 2 to 3 years of hand-on experience on Cloud Services/Platforms in AWS/Azure.
- Working experience Hybrid infra along with exposure to Application stack deployment understanding.
- Good to have service delivery exposure.
- Excellent presentation, oral communication skills and negotiation skills.
- Experience in large project assessment / migration / implementation using IaaS and PaaS provided by Cloud Providers.
- Exposure to assessment tools like Cloudamize, Risk etc.
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate, make strategic recommendations to Sr. Mgmt. as well as all levels of internal/external service partners.
- Create good presentations with all relevant information geared to win deals and make the internal customers see value of the Rapyder.
- Closed at least 4-5 Big Deals on Cloud Migration/ Workload Hosting/Application Development/SAAS Offering.
- Any Cloud Certifications at professional level is must.