Cloud Architect

**General Information**:

- Req #- WD00070458- Career area:
- Hardware Engineering- Country/Region:
- India- State:
- Karnataka- City:
- BANGALORE- Date:
- Thursday, August 29, 2024- Working time:
- Full-time**Additional Locations**:

- India - Karnātaka - Bangalore
- India - Karnātaka - BANGALORE

**Why Work at Lenovo**:
We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services.

**Description and Requirements**:
**In this role, you will**:

- Support the Hybrid Cloud Services Practice in developing and delivering IaaS and PaaS service offerings.
- Develop/Architect IaaS/PaaS Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Solutions with large ecosystem Partners and customers.
- Technical lead for IaaS and container-based and microservices offerings, working closely with the Hybrid Cloud Practice leader throughout the service offering lifecycle, including:

- Assisting in the creation of new service offerings, starting with participation in the brainstorming phase and providing expert guidance
- Assisting/leading early implementations with Technical Consultants
- Presentation delivery in support of:

- Our offering development process
- Field enablement/training
- Service delivery activities
- Assist in documentation of project requirements, statements of work, and service descriptions
- Some business partner interaction

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree, MBA, or equivalent experience required
- 7+ years of experience building, managing, and supporting large-scale hybrid networks, focusing on IaaS and PaaS offerings for MSPs and enterprises.
- Experience in defining, scoping, selling, delivering, and managing IaaS and PaaS migration, implementation, operations, and optimization initiatives for RHEL OpenShift, Microsoft Azure/Azure Stack Family and SQL products, VMware Cloud Foundation/VMware stack, AWS/AWS Outposts, IBM CloudPaks, and SAP.
- Design and implement automation workflows and orchestration processes to streamline cloud operations and SDN/NFV/NFVI Infrastructure. Utilize Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Kubernetes for infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management.
- Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to enable agile cloud service development and deployment. Familiarity with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps is essential.
- Implement cloud monitoring and management tools to ensure optimal performance, security, and cost efficiency. Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Zabbix is most valuable.
- Proficiency in network security protocols and technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and vulnerability assessments.
- VMWare VCF Red Hat design, architecture, automation-specific certifications.
- Market experience in one or more of the following: financial services, telecommunications, industrial manufacturing, energy, consumer products, high-tech, media & entertainment, and automotive
- Software Defined Network (SDN) and Storage (SDS) technologies.

**Preferred Skills**:

- Experience building infrastructure strategy and reference architecture for all-in cloud deployments and hybrid scenarios
- Experience designing, implementing, and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments.
- Demonstrated ability to articulate technical issues, resolutions, and recommendations for customers, development teams, and leadership.
- Experience training others in understanding and using container-related solutions.
- Experience working in a customer-facing environment preferred.
- TOGAF 9 Certified, TOGAF Business Architecture preferred.

**Additional Locations**:

- India - Karnātaka - Bangalore
- India - Karnātaka - BANGALORE
- India
- India - Karnātaka
- India - Karnātaka - Bangalore ,
- India - Karnātaka - BANGALORE

**NOTICE FOR PUBLIC**

At Lenovo, we follow strict policies and legal compliance for our recruitment process, which includes role alignment, employment terms discussion, final selection and offer approval, and recording transactions in our internal system. Interviews may be conducted via audio, video, or in-person depending on the role, and you will always meet with an official Lenovo representative.