Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Job Summary :

We have a great opportunity for a highly qualified Cloud Solutions Architect, with hands-on Experience on at least two of the four, AWS. Google Cloud, Azure, and other private cloud and data centers. This role will provide technical expertise in support of pre-sales activities. The successful candidate will develop general knowledge across all IT areas and assist in the assessment, architectural reviews, design, demonstration, and enhancement of technology solutions as required.

If you have a successful track record helping organizations navigate their journey to cloud-based platforms, this is a great chance to excel at what you love doing.

Key Responsibilities :

• Work closely with the Sales team to provide full presales assistance in providing technical solutions for Public Cloud, private Cloud, and DataCenter solutions.
• Providing cost-cutting and migration strategies in customer calls.
• Architecting the cloud solutions like public cloud solutions, Hybrid and multi-cloud solutions,
• Illustrate the value of the company's solution to prospects in a compelling manner.
• Responsible for aligning the company's capabilities (products and services) with client business requirements through a professional and ethical business approach.
• Involve in Proof-Of-Concept (POC) activities in solutions recommended.
• Work closely with the sales team to address leads and opportunities.
• Assisting the Internal Product and Practice team to develop a Native Application to deploy the solution using best practices.
• Develop a Cloud-native technical approach and proposal plans, identifying the best practice solutions meeting the requirements for a successful proposal. Create, edit, and review documents, diagrams, and other artifacts in response to RPPs, RFQs, and contribute to and participate in presentations to customers regarding proposed solutions.
• Cloud Architecture : Develop a Public / Hybrid cloud reference architecture, define a target state cloud architecture, Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros / cons, and migration considerations, Microservices architecture, and Hybrid cloud integration architecture.
• Cloud Deployment : Hybrid Cloud architecture design, integration, and security, Experience in cloud platforms across Private Cloud, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Docker, etc.
• Design deployment architecture for IaaS / SaaS / PaaS that will address our client's business needs and lead teams that will implement them for our clients.
• Experience in Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.) is good to have.
• Experience with workload migration automation tools (multi-cloud)
• Infrastructure provisioning and management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Cloud architect certified (GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.)
• DevOps and Agile methodologies, processes, and tools.

Requirements :

• 8 to 10 years of Experience spanning at least two cloud IT disciplines (AWS, OCI, & Azure), including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or operations
• Good Understanding of how applications run on Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, On-prem, DataCenter, and Co-location.
• Experience creating, deploying, and operating large-scale applications on AWS / Azure / GCP
• An advanced-level Cloud Certification is an added advantage.
• Understanding of microservices and serverless architecture is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills. (mandatory)
• Should have hands-on Experience of working on Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Should understand the costing of different cloud services and optimizations.
• Should have Experience with all major Cloud Providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Conduct proof of concept (POC) and implement the design in the cloud.
• Any Cloud Architect Certification is an Advantage.

Key Personal Attributes :

• A strong stage presence and ability to manage client interactions, requirement gathering discussions, etc.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction, providing technical and non-technical support to multiple users
• Proficient in technology consulting, training, and development
• A strong people motivator with prominent levels of energy
• Proactiveness – Be proactive in understanding the needs of our customers / clients
• Relentless learner with a passion to pick up recent technologies.