Technical Architect - Cloud Platform

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

Primary Responsibilities:

- Technically hands on on Cloud platform and much have Strategized, designed and implemented highly efficient solution on AWS or Azure for security, resilience, performant, networking, availability, Containerization and Container Orchestration, Blue-green deployments in context of business application.

- Understand and recommend right Cloud services (IasS, PaaS or SaaS) for the solution / business applications

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

- Design and setup of governance model for public cloud platform

- Experience in cloud comparison & recommendation

- Experience in Cloud (Public & Private) cost optimization

- Leverage CI/CD best practices and tooling of Public cloud

- Understands compliance, safe harbor and law of land

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

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

- Designing and setup of platforms on container orchestration services like GKE or Kubernetes for a highly scalable system. Experience in designing and implementing Hybrid Cloud will have added advantage.

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

- Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible)

- SCM (GIT OR TFS)

- CI tools (Jenkins or Bamboo or Gitlab)

- Terraform, Public Cloud Deployment Manager or Azure Resource Manager or Cloud formation

- Scripting language: Python, Bash and Shell

- Container orchestration services like ECS, ACS, GKE or Kubernetes

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

- Must have 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

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

- Work closely with Security Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and SRE

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