Cloud Director - Business Application

We have a leadership opportunity for Director - Cloud with one of our client for Bangalore/Gurgaon.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

- Strategizing, designing and implementing highly efficient solution on Public Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Azure or GCP) for security, resilience, performant, networking, availability, Blue-green deployments in context of business application.

- Security Hardening of cloud infrastructure application/web server against known/unknown vulnerabilities.

- Assess client needs and requirements to ensure appropriate approach to solve client challenges

- Recommend right public / private cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) required for the solution

- Expert in Capacity Planning Design, cost and effort estimations

- Experience in cloud comparison & recommendation

- Experience in Cloud (Public & Private) cost optimization

- Designing and set up automated backup and restoration of application/web servers/databases/datalakes to object storage like S3.

- Deliver best in class operations tooling & practices, including CI, CD, chatops, RBA, and RPA

- Writing infrastructure as code for public or private clouds and implement modern cloud Integration architecture using :

a) Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible )

b) SCM (TFS or GIT)

c) CI tools (Jenkins or Bamboo)

d) Azure Resource Manager, Cloud formation or Google Cloud Deployment Manager

e) Scripting language: Python, Bash, and Shell

f) Container services like ECS, ACS, GCE or Kubernetes

- Architecting and implementing end to end monitoring solution in cloud (Nagios, Zabbix, AppD, CWatch etc) including billing

- Understands compliance, safe harbor and law of land

- Design for failover, high availability, MTTR, MTTF and MTBF

- Must have an understanding of SDLC

- Designing and implementing software engineering processes, improve efficiency

- Implementing shift left strategy

- Monitor application, systems and infrastructure health

- Report on business and processes metrics

- Balance governance, ownership and freedom against reliability

- Evaluate the undifferentiated heavy lifting of operating in house solutions versus adopting cloud native services (Public vs. Private)

- Deliver best in class operations tooling & practices, including CI, CD and chatops

- Work closely with Security Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and SRE

Experience Guidelines:

Must have:

- 16+ years experience with atleast 5+ years of working in Cloud (Public, & Private) with extensive knowledge on one or more Public Cloud.

- Delivery experience in solutioning, implementing or migrating a large CMS / E-commerce / Enterprise workload to Cloud.

- Proven ability to plan and execute change on an enterprise scale, with outcomes that fulfil the original business case

- Can look through lenses of business, functional, and technology.

- Can manage multiple projects simultaneously; able to evaluate progress or mitigate risks.

- Knowledge of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools and products and their respective applications

- Have worked in a client-facing role or at a client location

- Awareness of industry trends and directions and its impact on IT services

- Experience of working in/with multi-vendor, 3rd parties, and client teams

- Total knowledge of delivery management, various delivery models etc.

- Delivery, stakeholder & client management

Good to have:

- Develop, motivate, empower, and evaluate individual contributors and grow their professional, leadership, and technical skills

- Provide thought leadership for the development of Cloud COE agenda and COE management.

- Grow the COE team in India, through internal and external hiring.

- Establish relationships with key stakeholders across Global delivery organization to make Cloud COE a go to function.

- Experience in building/supporting/testing/operating IaaS platforms