Job description
- As the Cloud Pre-Sales/ Senior Cloud Architect, you will provide technical leadership in support of Galaxy IT s initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
- The Senior Cloud Architect reports into the IT organization as a member of the Platform Services team but will contribute to various product group initiatives to provide architectural leadership and best practices.
- Additionally, the Senior Cloud Architect will be responsible for ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.
- The Platform Services team designs, provisions, and maintains Galaxy s global presence for on premise and cloud compute and storage resources across all regions.
- The ideal candidate will have a bachelor s degree in Computer Science or closely related subject; an advanced degree is preferred.
- In addition, 10 or more years’ experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations.
- The position requires strong leadership and team building skills and must be able to collaborate effectively with a group of high performing individuals.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, scalability, Disaster Recovery plan)
- Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, Private Cloud and possible future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.
- Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the why, and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
- Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
- Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks.
- Accelerate the shift of Galaxy s remaining on-premises core service to the cloud.
- Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.
- Build out IaC-first deployments and assist other team members and groups to do the same.
- Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment
- Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.
- Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
- Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.
- Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.
- Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements.
- Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts.
- Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.
Key Qualifications:
For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviours to our team:
- 10+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics, application development, middleware, database management or operations.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, Private Cloud and VMWare enterprise implementations.
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
- Knowledge of all components of technical architecture, full stack expertise.
- Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles.
- Strong understanding of network architecture and application development methodologies
- Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture and client/server systems
- Strong skills in IaC solutions such as Terraform (preferred), AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and/or Azure Resource Manager.
- Ability to understand IT systems and business process interactions through design thinking.
- Exposure to other CSPs, such as AWS, Azure, OCI, and Google.
- Willingness and desire to mentor other team members in cloud best practices.
- Ability to collaborate with diverse sets of stakeholders to find secure, scalable, cost-effective, and mutually beneficial solutions for the company.
Education:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience