The Cloud Architect is an IT professional who designs, maintains, and evolves a cloud infrastructure for running applications.
Senior Cloud Architect Qualifications and Responsibilities:
Be responsible for the design, planning, implementation, and growth of the cloud infrastructure
Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems as needed
Assist with management of continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies
Work alongside architecture, engineering teams to design and implement any scalable software services as well as cloud-based disaster recovery solutions
Ensure necessary system security by using best in class cloud security solutions
Research and evaluate new cloud solutions per business requests
Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when necessary
Recommend process and architecture improvements
Troubleshoot the system, solve problems across all platforms and application domains as needed
Oversee pre-production acceptance testing to ensure the high quality of a company's services and products
Senior Cloud Architect Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent work experience
5+ Years of experience designing and maintaining Cloud solutions
Experience designing, building web environments on major Cloud platforms
Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as IIS, JBoss, NGINX, Tomcat, and WebLogic
Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, Splunk, and other Cloud monitoring solutions
An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today's cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
Proficiency in script development, scripting languages, automation best practices
The ability to be a team player
The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Senior Cloud Architect Preferred Experience:
Success working on high performance teams
Delivered solutions in large scale enterprise environments
Prior consulting or professional services experience
Motivated to continually improve your craft, sharing and learning every day
Exceptional integrity with the desire to create the best possible customer outcomes
Understanding of the theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD)