Title- Sr. Cloud Architect
Duration: 6 Months (Contract to hire)
Location- San Jose, CA (Hybrid)
Job Description:
Technology Leadership: Looking for someone to take ownership of the managed cloud services platform and design a multi-tenant hybrid multi-cloud platform, keeping current and future needs in mind. Collaborate with product management to develop a solid understanding of EDA customer’s cloud requirements and create a vision for the future of the cloud platform. Demonstrate technological leadership by building a platform with thorough research, evaluating multiple options, considering their pros and cons, and making well-supported decisions.
Cloud Best Practices: Define, establish, and monitor the implementation of best cloud practices to ensure optimal performance and security.
Security Best Practices: Ensure compliance with industry security standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, SOC2, and ISO 27001, working closely with the security team to monitor cloud privacy.
Qualifications:
- Experience: A minimum of 12 years of experience across at least two disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, cloud technologies, and middleware. Specifically, experience in building a hybrid cloud solution leveraging OpenStack or other similar private cloud solution along with one or more public cloud providers is very desirable.
- Technical Skills: Proficient in cloud service architecture, security, networking, containers, and full stack service development. Well-versed in scalability and reliability principles, cloud computing design patterns, and industry security best practices.
- Cloud Services: Proven ability to build, guide, and manage best-in-class API driven cloud solutions, with hands-on contribution to complex development activities. Should be able to independently build end-to-end cloud services from the ground up.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet, along with knowledge of scripting and automation using Python or other similar languages.
- Container Technologies: Expertise in virtualization/container technologies like Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Cloud Certification: Possess relevant cloud certifications.
Preferred Attributes:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.