Infrastructure/Cloud Architect (AWS)

We are seeking a detail-oriented, thorough, and organized IT cloud architect to join our team. In this position, you will play a key role in designing and implementing Centric PaaS/SaaS/CaaS layer for all areas of containerization, using Docker and Kubernetes on-prem, Hybrid Cloud or Public Cloud. You will have the responsibility to on-board projects to our container platform, give expertise and help in building migration strategies for our customers.

You will be responsible for:

• Understand business requirements (functional and non-functional) and convert them to technical design.
• Design infrastructure architecture standards; provide architectural analysis and system design reviews.
• Propose technology, tools and process guidelines.
• Focus on scalability, maintainability, performance, modularity and security of the infrastructure.
• Manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture.
• Write architectural/technical documentation.
• Implement automation frameworks that use new or unfamiliar technologies and practices.
• Analyse infrastructure metrics to identify potential areas for improvement and/or refactoring.
• Work with development teams to develop systems which comply with the architecture.
• Able to clearly communicate complex technical and business concepts both to clients as well as to team members and negotiate change.
• Visit customers to provide technical input.
• Actively involved in industry conferences and publications
• Able to influence standards in each project

• Knowledge in the areas of IT Architecture, Data center and virtualization design.
• Any formal Cloud based training and any industry cloud related industry accredited certification is a plus.
• Experience with “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations or Architecting/operating solutions built on AWS/Azure.
• Good understanding of core Public cloud services categories (Compute, Network, Storage, IAM, PaaS, SaaS offerings), auto-scalability and high-availability concepts on Cloud environments
• Knowledge of containers and container management frameworks such as Docker, Docker EE, Kubernetes, Swarm, and NoSQL databases is mandatory.
• Thorough knowledge of shell scripting (any kind, including PowerShell), Linux, Windows preferable, networking, storage, logging, monitoring.
• Knowledge of modern software development stacks, software deployment methods, front-end and back-end, key management or other secrets organization.
• Explicit knowledge on AWS - Cloud formation, RDS, AWS SDK’s, VPC, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, Route 53, RDS, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild are considered an advantage.
• Familiar with DevOps way of working and CI\CD tools (e.g. TFS, VSTS, Jenkins).
• Driven to keep self-developing and proactive.
• At least 2 years of experience in a similar role.
• Fluent English.