Position: Strategic Architect
Company: ITernal Group
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for Strategic Architect for our DevOps department 

**Responsibilities:**
- Provide the exceptional technical design and thought leadership to our customers while working with a world-class sales and business development team 
- Form deep relationships with clients and be the trusted technical advisor on all matters related to public cloud, containerization & modernization 
- Establish Cloud & DevOps and SRE CoE & C4E for our large enterprise customers to ensure a successful transformation and adoption
- Good understanding of modern SRE practices including monitoring, observability, SLA/RPO/RTO alignment with ability to incorporate those into proposed solutions and roadmaps
- Assess and contribute to improvement of the Customers' knowledge of the cloud platform and overall cloud readiness to support the customers through a structured development plan and ensure its delivery 
- Facilitate alignment of the proposed solutions and road maps to the enterprise security standards and compliance requirements
- Generating public cloud migration roadmaps and blueprints
- Understanding of composable business approach and ability to design composable architecture
- Understand the domain driven design approach to solutioning
- Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility. 
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of large-scale public cloud implementations and make strong contributions to design & architecture
- Author and contribute to technical white papers, blog posts, and reusable content
- Educate customers on best practices & value propositions to ensure solutions are designed up to world-class standards
- Participate and contribute to the development of engineering accelerators. 
- Participate and conduct educational sessions and design exercises for our customers
- Establish software best practices; Analyze requirements & specifications to design & develop solutions 
- Contribute to the internal knowledge repository of reference architecture and library of SOPs related to architecture and design
- Ability to leverage reference architecture to quickly define pattern-like solutions
- Mentors and coaches other members of the agile team 
 

**What you need:**
-  10+ years of experience with at least 7+ years of Public cloud transformation & DevOps 
-  At least 5+ years of experience working in an Agile team
-  Experience working with Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem 
-  Experience working with microservices architecture, REST APIs & API Gateways principles and patterns 
-  Background in Software Development, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, and/or Systems Engineering 
-  Have experience building and deploying solutions as containers on a cloud platform using an automated CI / CD pipeline 
-  Experience in configuring, monitoring and handling scaling infrastructure in cloud 
-  Experience working with real time observability solutions that provide visibility into system health 
-  Author best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments in cloud 
-  Experience implementing advanced security, authentication and single sign-on across hybrid cloud 
-  Implemented end-to-end automated delivery pipeline for continuous application development 
-  Have evaluated products/technology & created IT Roadmap for adoption 

**Cloud Specific:**
-  5 + years AWS/GCP/ Architecture experience is highly desirable
-  AWS/GCP/ Solution Architect certification is highly desirable 
-  Demonstrate experience of various AWS/GCP/ infrastructure, services and their limitations with strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Elastic Kubernetes 
-  Strong understanding of the advantages and limitations of various cloud services 
-  Have implemented a cloud native DevOps model
-  Experience of working in a technical role within a sales organization and/or presales experience
-  Experience/ knowledge of infrastructure and security requirements, such as HIPAA, PCIS, CJIS, etc. 
-  Experience with low code and no-code front end, data and integration layer platforms is nice to have
-  Experience incorporating AI/ML into solution design and/or as part of engineering and architecture process (ChatGPT, Bard, GitHub co-pilot, etc.) is nice to have
-  Experience in FinOps and cloud cost optimization of proposed solutions
-  Experience designing modern API-first platforms and solutions is a nice to have
-  Experience in designing data platforms and solutions is an asset

**Qualifications:** 
-  Strong communication skills
-  Strong presentation skills
-  Ability to understand, clarify and articulate complex problem statements
-  Ability to manage and resolve personal and design conflicts
-  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or additional comparable experience 
-  Proven experience in IT, application development or DevOps, including excellent knowledge of networking, computing and storage 
- Background in DevOps, Software Development, Site Reliability, or Systems Engineering