Service Solutions Architect - Distribution Tech Firm

Our client is an amalgamation of a distribution tech leader with 20 years+ of experience in RTM, and used by 30K+ distributors across the world and a high energy retail aggregation and data analytics start-up. We have a strong business team led by Unilever sales and IT veterans, backed by tech teams with cutting-edge platform and data experience. They currently partner 40+ FMCG companies, being a market leader in the space in South Asia, and backed by marquee investors.

Role overview:

- DevOps Architects with deep Cloud Architecture experience to join our Cloud and DevOps unit and help accelerate our SaaS efforts.

- The successful candidate(s) will be involved in designing and implementing cloud solutions that will help UniteFusion host and operate it's SaaS offerings to respective clients across the globe.

- This will require hands-on collaboration and proactive coordination across multiple distributed teams.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities :

- The DevOps Architect is ultimately responsible for designing and implementing a robust, scalable, pragmatic and realistic cloud solution that works for UniteFusion and our clients.

- Design and implement cloud provisioning and deployment solutions which are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized

- Work closely with Product Engineering group to support the implementation of cloud provisioning and deployment solutions

- Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production environments

- Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling

Skillsets Required:

- In depth knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3 etc.

- Proven experience assessing clients workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap

- Proven knowledge of AWS platform and tools

- Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint

- Expert in AWS computing, storage, networking, logging and monitoring, auditing and security service

- Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters

- Experience to build scalable production systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)

- Exposure to modern development approaches (containerization, micro-services, CICD) will be an added advantage

- Hands on experience in using build servers like Jenkins; Strong knowledge of DevOps Platform tooling ( Chef, Puppet, and Docker) or equivalent.

- Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership and mentor team to build necessary competency

- Certification on AWS architecture desirable

- Good knowledge of cloud compliance policies such as CIS and ISO27001 benchmarks

- Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization

- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads

- Understand and document technical requirements from clients

- Define Migration strategy to move application to cloud

- Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, S3 etc.) and tools;

- Design the overall Virtual Private Cloud VPC environment including server instance, storage instances, subnets, availability zones, etc

- Design the AWS network architecture including VPN connectivity between regions and subnets

- Design the HA / DR strategies

- Set up process, services and tools around cloud

- Oversee build of the environment

- Execute migration plan

- Leverage appropriate AWS services

- Validate the environment to meets all security and compliance controls

- Experience with infrastructure management and monitoring