Cloud and DevOps Architect

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15Yrs -18 Yrs Gurgaon Openings: 1

**The Company**

Our client is a global company in the fintech sector that has just been formed as a JV between two world leaders - one, a global giant in the derivatives space and second, a world leader in financial research and analytics.

The new company is being formed by merging two entities, both of which are highly profitable companies with a combined track record of 80 years. Our client will be creating products that focus on the entire post-trade spectrum of activities in the global financial market. Their existing products will be re-positioned with the latest technologies.

This company will work in the area of derivatives and OTC products, which are the most complex parts of the financial market. The company is laying the foundations of a great culture and the space to build a great organization. Their current objective is to identify individuals who have high expertise, to join their existing team of experts who are spread across the world.

**The Job**

We are seeking to identify a Cloud Devops Architect with 15-18 yrs of experience in the IT space.

**Role and Responsibilities**
- Contribute to policy framework, design, and engineering of “Cloud platform” architecture which enables efficient devops & infra ops; efficient organization, networking and security for workloads running across multiple accounts, cloud providers and on premises environments. It is required of this role to pursue a strong collaborative & partnership driven approach of working across security, infra, networking, compliance/risk and delivery stake holders and organizations.
- The role shall provide the directions and decision making for DevSecOps Toolchains, the engineering processes / methods, common / custom code libraries related to DevSec & infra ops, common logging, metrics, tracing standards, observability platforms etc.
- This role shall enable a decision-making process which is collaborative and participative; through suitable engagement with DevSecOps practitioner forum and community.
- This role shall represent these significant strategy progressions & decisions into the company's Architecture Council and obtain the required buy-ins.
- Though Cloud is a significant focus area, but role shall have the corresponding responsibilities in the space of DevSecOps as mentioned above for the on prem workloads as well.

**Your Profile**

**Experience / Skills**
- Should have experience of articulating / contributing to the multi cloud / hybrid strategy for an enterprise from technical architecture, engineering, devops and infra ops point of view.
- Should have experience of articulating the directions / recommendations for workload placement strategies towards cloud services.
- Should have experience of providing guidelines to delivery and infrastructure teams towards the cloud organisational constucts like cloud organisations, policy management, accounts, VPC, cross cloud/account/on prem connectivities / gateways, security / IAM etc.
- Experience of couple of cloud providers preferably AWS and GCP shall be required.
- Should have hands on experience towards diverse toolchains in this space like for source code management, test case / issue / quality management, requirements management, build / deployment, source code quality / coverage management, SAST / DAST tools, ELK/Splunk etc. And should have played a decision-making role in selection and design of such integrated tool chains.