Sr Cloud Architect - Information Technology - Analysts

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a
Cloud Architect

Position type:
Full Time - Contract

Duration: 12+ Months

Location:
Chandler, AZ

As a
Cloud Architect,you will:

Maintain thought leadership role in cloud technology, remaining up to date on offerings of various cloud service providers

• Maintain overall product design documentation and oversight. Responsible for the overall architecture of Hybrid cloud platforms and components that comprise it
• Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices
• Be an active member of Cloud center of excellence to define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance
• Plan and implement the selection of new cloud services and tools to enable cloud roadmap
• Drive discussions in architecture review board; develop platform architecture artifacts and influence on architectural decisions
• Maintain blueprints and reference implementations of cloud products
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns and have “security from the get-go” model into Cloud platforms
• Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and elevate risks and issues as appropriate
• Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders –engineering, operations, developers, and leadership

Dev Ops

• Experience in delivering large scale distributed enterprise platforms with focus on performance, scale, security, and reliability
• Experience in Dev Ops and Git Ops models with infra-ascode, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc. with technologies such as Terraform
• Experience with on-premises based Private Cloud and Public Cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
• Have deep knowledge of web protocols, Linux and/or Windows operating systems, and AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and/or Google APIs and environments
• Experience in native CSP orchestration stacks (e.g., Azure ARM templates, AWS Cloud Formation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)
• Experience in container-native technologies such as Kubernetes, container native virtualization, network, etc.
• Experience in cloud-native logging, monitoring and operations tools – Splunk, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience infra–automation tools and general programming languages – Ansible, Java, python, etc.
• Must be expert level in one or more of the following, with familiarity with the others:
• Cloud network and security design Cloud IaaS design, including image creation and management using tools such as Packer.
• Cloud-native Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE, EKS) design and implementation Red Hat Openshift public cloud design and implementation
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Cloud Formation, Salt
• Experience in Agile development practices and test driven development
  
  Demonstrated excellence in organizational, leadership, communication, coaching, and troubleshooting skills

Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following:
Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal &  protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000…