Sr. Cloud/Edge Solutions Architect

This job will start as a W2 contract and the pay rate will likely be between $80 to $90/hr.What is exciting about this opportunity:You will be a part of Emerging Technology where you will be helping build new services and products beyond just connectivity and video.Small nimble team, a lot of ownership/responsibility.Must have skills/certs/technologies:Experience in multi-cloud environments (at least two); Azure, GCP, AWS.Ideally, some experience building edge applications.Experience being hands on keyboard, in the weeds, have spun up applications in different cloud environments, knows best practices and how different cloud ecosystems are evolving.Experience building applications related to advertising, specifically Programmatic Advertising; Supply side platform (SSP) or demand side platform (DSP).Plus: GenAI background.Potential Backgrounds:Comes from the Advertising world, has a tech background and has helped stand up an edge or cloud applications for an SSP or DSP.General cloud experience (worked at AWS, Azure, Google, consulting firm, Warner Bros, etc.), has a general cloud background and has worked on Advertising related applications/services.Job Description:The selected candidate will join the Emerging Technology group, a dynamic team of engineers and product owners, who are leading innovation across our networks. The candidate will play a pivotal role as one of the key technical and strategic leaders shaping the future of multi-access edge (MEC) infrastructure and services, responsible for research, architecture, and engineering activities. The role requires collaboration with product, engineering, and operation teams to create technical requirements for newly proposed edge products and services and deliver proof-of-concepts that demonstrate the proposed technologies and work with the teams to deploy these technologies.MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:Research, identify use cases and develop architecture for MEC solutions across industries, including programmatic advertising, GenAI, financial services, and content delivery/streaming.Provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of edge-based solutions, staying abreast of industry best practices and emerging technologies.Act as a subject matter expert on edge services, advising internal teams and partners on best practices and optimizations.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and reliable edge-based solutions and architectural proposals.Promote customer-centricity and ensure focus on creating great customer experiences to achieve competitive advantage.Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge:Experience working with customers and partners to design future state cloud/edge architecture and solutions.Experience architecting cloud to edge platform system requirements, use cases, system flows, hardware, platform and software architecture that meets performance, scalability, reliability, and security specifications of the customer.Experience architecting and implementing public cloud platforms or edge services in two or more Cloud Service Provider networks (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.).Demonstrable knowledge of major cloud/edge industry trends and key players in the MEC ecosystem and value chain.Familiarity with the use of cloud/edge services in programmatic advertising, GenAI, financial services, and content delivery/streaming.Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.Strong communications and interpersonal skills to effectively work with internal clients and external partners.Strong writing skills to effectively write architecture requirements documents and design documents.Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace environment and ability to learn new technology quickly.Employee Type:ContractJob Type:Applications and Data Management

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