Lead Cloud Architect

Responsability

• This position is a stakeholder facing role and embodies the responsibility of capturing, prioritisation, and delivery of project expectations for all aspects of the projects you work on.
• You can lead technical customer workshops and design a solution meeting the customer requirements on all aspects of the project (Governance, Security, Networking, Billing, Operations).
• You are an advocate for Cloud adoption and enlighten customers in their Cloud Adoption strategy, no matter their Cloud Maturity.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: you have the ability to communicate tasks, challenges and results clearly to technical & non-technical colleagues and customers.
• Ability to understand both the business and technical requirements and apply existing, or develop new methodologies to satisfy those requirements
• You understand both business and technical priorities and have a realistic view of timelines and deliverables.
• you are able to guide and streamline technical tracks of a multidisciplinary team, composed of colleagues and customers.
• You advocate the use of Cloud best practices in all aspects of your job and the deliverables of your team.
• you mentor and guide junior colleagues through their journey in the team and within the projects you collaborate on.

Requirements

• Expertise in Operations in Cloud and hybrid environments.
• Expertise in Security in Cloud and hybrid environments.
• Expertise in Networking in Cloud and hybrid environments (especially firewalling, routing & DNS)
• Expertise of DevOps & Cloud automation using Infrastructure as Code (especially Terraform)
• Knowledge of containerized solutions (especially Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of micro services architecture
• Knowledge of shell/bash scripting
• Experience in IT Consulting
• Knowledge of operational tooling for logging, monitoring & backup
• Knowledge of VMWare
• Knowledge of Database technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server
• Knowledge of specific tools like Terraform Cloud, Gitlab CI, Cloud Build..
• Knowledge of LDAP & Active Directory
• Knowledge of interoperability technology (e.g. message oriented middleware, Event Hubs or similar)
• Knowledge of cryptography (TLS, CA, PKI)