Cloud Architect

Key Points:

Job type: Contract

Onsite (5 days)

Location: Noida

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Work collaboratively within integrated, cross-functional teams to deliver comprehensive solutions

to implement SaaS solutions in different AWS, Azure, GCP public clouds and VMWare private

clouds.

● Responsible for building and overseeing the cloud systems, including servers, storage, and

network infrastructure.

● Build and maintain configuration and set-up best practices and guidelines for K8.

● Design and implement well architected solutions that allow K8 to scale at the infrastructure and

Pod levels.

● Build observability in the platform using open source or commercially available tools that allows

to have full control over the K8 environment and services running on it.

● Build networking solutions within and outside the K8 environment for the smooth functioning of

the services and applications in the SaaS product.

● Configure alarms, triggers, and scale units to enable automatic horizontal scaling of nodes behind

a load balancer or within a cluster;

● Collaborate with subject matter experts in areas such as wide area networks, directory services,

etc. to solve integration challenges as required;

● Architect highly scalable, available, and elastic solutions that implement industry best practices

using cloud services;

● Able to come up with the solution that can overcome the shortcomings of the open source or

commercial tool(s) used in the platform build.

● Analyzing new and existing public cloud services and creating solutions that meet stakeholder

requirements and standards.

● We believe in knowledge sharing. So we strongly encourage our engineers to contribute to the

open source community

● Have good experience with CICD, RESTful, gRPC APIs and SRE practices and apply in your

work daily.

● Bring strong analytical, diagnostic and problem solving skills with the ability to independently

create solutions and work with others in the team.

● Prepare and present the high level solutions, architecture diagrams, write requirements,

specifications, and white boarding to C-level executives, managers and engineers in the team.

Must Have Skills:

● Overall 15+ years of experience working in the field of Linux/Unix, AWS, GCP DevOps, Cloud,

Containers and its echo system.

● 7+ years of hands-on working experience with Kubernetes and its components - control plane,

data plane, containers - Docker, with deploying, managing and scaling on prem and in cloud.

● 2+ years of experience with Istio, Consul, automation using terraform/python, Helm charts.

● 3+ years of hands-on experience with setting up monitoring and Observability for Kubernetes.

● Have strong networking and storage knowledge in cloud, on-prem and K8.

● Experience with multi-node setup of ELK, GKE,Prometheus, Fluentbit, Kibana and Kafka, API

Gateways (Kong preferred).

● Experience in networking, firewall, SSL certificates.

● Should have strong knowledge in public clouds AWS / GCP /Azure

● Strong experience in scripting.

● Strong experience in event driven microservices architecture

● Working with RESTful and gRPC APIs

● Experience with Git-Ops continuous delivery tools and DevOps/SRE practices.

Good to Have Skills:

● Experience in building distributed, multi-region kubernetes clusters.

● 1+ years handson experience with Tanzu, VMWare Virtualization is needed.

● Good understanding of networking/firewall and storage in Kubernetes and in general.

● Understanding of container security (image, pod, network)

● Experience in microservices with container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes

● Experience with troubleshooting production systems.

Qualification: BE/BTech/MCA/ME/MTech/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field or

equivalent practical experience

Location: Noida