Cloud Architect

Role: Cloud Solutions Architect Location: Downer Grove, IL - Hybrid 3 days Onsite/Week Duration: Long term Responsibilities & Accountabilities: • Participate in architecture and design discussions that produce requirements. • Interpret requirements and code in a manner that encourages reuse and maintainability. • Understand underlying technologies to build optimized, efficient code. • Collaborate in an agile-based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand-up calls. • Work effectively in a complex technical environment and adopt new technologies. • Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaptation process. • Define new and/or continuously improve reference architectures. • Understand key cloud computing security measures and the ability to apply them in architecture designs. • Logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications • Have excellent communication skills to work as a member of a team. • Ability to think strategically and relate architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs. • Deep understanding of cloud solution architecture in one or more major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI). • In-depth experience with some or all these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, and Identity and Access Management. • Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or willing to obtain in the first year. Preferred Qualifications • Experience suggesting/recommending competitive and innovative technical options, obtaining client buy-in, and delivering on commitments. • Comfortable communicating complex, technical topics in an actionable manner to senior leadership. • Experience with Agile methods, automation, and tools. Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes. • Excellent client-facing written and oral communications. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills. Experience • 5 years as an engineer or architect working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP. • Bachelor's degree or 10 years relevant job experience and a Master's degree.