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Career Techniques

Cloud Architect

Career Techniques, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290


The Cloud Architect will be responsible for working with technology teams to design and implement various cloud infrastructure within Hospitality domains. The Cloud Architect works to ensure that the architected solutions are well designed, implemented and operationalized. You will assist in creating business cases and completing solution analysis to integrate new solutions within the ecosystem.

This is a hybrid position, 2 days in office 3 remote.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate proof of concepts to help drive operational enablement of emerging technologies. The result should be recommended patterns for adoption or declining use using non-functional requirements for guidance.

Assist in defining and driving strategic vision for the Cloud environment

Enable various teams to work within standards by specifying approved tools and technologies

Develop and maintain vendor relationships for new and existing technologies.

May participate in or supervise embedded teams in larger enterprise projects as required to meet strategic initiatives.

Determine and prioritize processes for recoverability, fail-over, disaster recovery, and business continuity

Participate in specifying operational objectives including SLA's and KPI's for availability, performance and security.

Determine RTO and RPO objectives and devise strategies for improvement.

Participate in architectural design with other team members and software architects. Encourage shared and common design practices.

Provide technical escalation support across the deployed platforms, liaise with development, support, infrastructure, and security as required.

Provide technical direction and clarification of requirements to software agile development teams, integration, and testing staff.

Requirements:

Degree in computer science and/or 7+ years of relevant work experience

Azure architect-level certifications are an asset

7+ years of experience designing and implementing solutions for various Azure services

Experience analyzing, documenting and presenting architecture solutions to stakeholders at all levels of the enterprise

Experience designing and implementing hybrid cloud technologies to support cloud migrations

Experience working in high availability, heavy transactional environments.

Experience automating deployment of applications using desired state configuration, PowerShell, or other automation languages.

Experience with information security and access management philosophies.

Understanding of Hospitality systems and integration is an asset

Working experience designing and deploying Azure cloud compute, storage and PaaS

Hands-on experience with web traffic management (CDN, IP and DNS Load Balancing) patterns

Knowledge of version control, CI/CD concepts and tooling (Azure DevOps, TFS, Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD)

Containers and container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes platforms such AKS/EKS/GKS/OpenShift)

Working knowledge of microservices patterns

Deep understanding of zonal/regional availability concepts and trade-offs

Strong understanding of Azure Active Directory and IAM

Windows Server, Linux (Redhat, Oracle Linux), VMware ESXi

Knowledge of routing, subnetting, L7 firewalling and network troubleshooting

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to summarize complex concepts, information and risks for non-technical audiences

Ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements and develop alternate solutions

Strong knowledge of and adherence to development methodologies, standards, and best practices

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