Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description :

Roles and Responsibilities:

A cloud engineer is responsible for the design, review of architectures & construction of cloud service provider environments.

Duties, and Responsibilities may include the following:

§  Responsible for the evaluation of cloud strategy and program architecture

§  Responsible for gathering system requirements working together with application architects and owners

§  Responsible for generating scripts and templates required for the automatic provisioning of resources

§  Discover standard cloud services offerings, install, and execute processes and standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings

§  Build software for the organization’s systems and ES as a service offering

§  Stay well-informed of failures and complications related to a cloud offering

§  Responsible for debugging technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc.

§  Collaborate with the engineering teams to enable their applications to run on Cloud infrastructure.

§  Experience with OpenStack, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, NoSQL etc.

Qualifications:

A qualified applicant must possess a thorough knowledge of at least some of the following:

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or Engineering, or in other related technical field. In addition to educational qualification, they should possess at least 3-5years IT experience with cloud operations and systems administration

Knowledge Needed-

A cloud engineer must have adept technical skills and cognate experience to be hired.

Practical object-oriented development knowledge with at least Scala or Java, knowledge of systems like ZooKeeper, Consul etc., familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Docker, OpenStack, and Public cloud delivery know-how with AWS and/or Azure

understanding of software development, engineering, programming languages and tools; Java, Python, Ruby, .NET/C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, and ability to work with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, XP)

Part of the daily tasks of a Cloud Engineer is to work with cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, Designers, and Business Analysts), so it is vital that they can work in a team-driven environment

Cloud technologies become advanced over time, so an essential ingredient that most recruiters look out for in cloud engineers is their willingness to learn and work with new and emerging technologies.

Certification

Microsoft Azure – 70-533, 70-535 any other infrastructure certification is added advantage.

Should have relevant cloud certifications such as Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect is added advantage