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We seek an experienced and highly skilled Senior Cloud Architect to join our team. As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will lead the creation of cloud technology frameworks and provide technical leadership to support our company’s initiatives in cloud computing and automation. You will focus mainly on designing systems and services that run on cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong IT and cloud services implementation background, rich experience with cloud technologies, and excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

We seek an experienced and highly skilled Senior Cloud Architect to join our team. As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will lead the creation of cloud technology frameworks and provide technical leadership to support our company’s initiatives in cloud computing and automation. You will mainly focus on designing systems and services that run on cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong IT and cloud services implementation background, rich experience with cloud technologies, and excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading the creation of well-architected cloud technology frameworks as well as proof-of-concept projects.
  • Perform enterprise portfolio assessments.
  • Deliver guidance on IT infrastructure and application architecture.
  • Review operational best practices and conduct skills transfer workshops.
  • Provide technical leadership in support of NXGENs initiatives in cloud computing and automation.
  • Design systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
  • Ensuring critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.
  • Advise customers on migrating existing systems onto cloud and building new systems using the full range of available cloud services.
  • Assist with the change management work on policies, processes, and people changes during cloud implementation.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to address and solve security, compliance, performance, scale, availability, and manageability issues.
  • Manage, guide, and lead junior team members on various projects.

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

  • Minimum ten (10) years of experience in IT implementation (any industry).
  • Minimum three years (3) of experience in using cloud to deliver modern technology stacks, including microservices, containers and distributed systems.
  • Extensive working knowledge of cloud technologies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Professional experience in application and infrastructure development.
  • Professional experience in architecting and solutioning highly available distributed systems.
  • Professional experience in the designing and implementation of continuous integration platforms.
  • Experience in managing microservices and distributed system platforms end-to-end.
  • Familiarity with popular Infrastructure-as-Code platforms, for example, AWS CDK or Terraform.
  • Working knowledge of at least one full-stack programming language, including Python, Java, Golang, or Typescript.
  • Enterprise architecture experience for distributed systems and cloud implementation, including network, compute, storage and virtualization.
  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills to represent NXGEN within customers’ environments and drive discussions with senior stakeholders.
  • Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with keen attention to detail.

Nice to Have:

  • Professional cloud architect certification (AWS, OCI, Google Cloud, Microsoft, etc.).
  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, IT or equivalent.
  • Track record of implementing distributed systems using cloud-native services.
  • Strong experience in application development on Linux or Windows-based systems.
  • Experience with emergent technologies such as High-Performance Computing (HPC), Internet of Things (IoT) and AI/ML.
  • Experience in architecting, designing, and developing cloud-native applications and microservices.
  • Experience in developing with containers, Kubernetes, serverless, or relevant application frameworks.
  • Experience in leading certification or accreditation of cloud workload(s) to meet regulatory or industry standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO26262.