Cloud Solution Architect

Senior level • Full-time • On-site • Cluj-Napoca
HDCPC004
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Job Summary

Our partner combines global reach with local expertise. They deliver local services and operate Service Centers and Integration Centers across Europe, South Africa, Asia, and the Americas, supporting users in over 70 countries. You will have the chance to help drive their business into the future as part of a global delivery team. They are going through a period of major change and investment in their systems, and they are recruiting innovative people to join them on their journey.

What they do:

  • They help their customers to source, transform and manage their IT solutions and infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users & their businesses.

Their Ambition:

  • Strongly recommended by customers for the way they help them achieve their goals;
  • The preferred route to market for technology providers;
  • People want to join them and stay with them, proud of their reputation, as they learn, earn, and have fun;
  • Trusted as an agile & innovative provider of digital technology around the world.

The Cloud Solution Architect is responsible for all aspects of pre-sales Cloud Solution consultancy, design, and architecture. As a leading member of the DevOps discipline, they will take part in client meetings, conduct workshops and presentations, occupying a strategic position between our partner and the customer.

They will provide technical leadership to support our partner’s cloud computing and automation initiatives, focusing on designing systems and services that run on public cloud platforms. The Cloud Solution Architect will be embedded into the Cloud-DevOps business area to provide architectural leadership and best practices.

They will lead architectural design sessions, develop POCs, implement projects, and deliver ongoing refinement and enhancement. They will also be involved in delivering training programs, workshops, and promoting knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

Consulting Skills:

  • Take a leading role in driving the pre-sales conversation and process to define a high-level technical solution starting from a high-level business need.
  • Backed by solid prior experience conduct long-format workshops in the pre-sales process, assist the Delivery team in the ensuing phases and client meetings.
  • Design solutions and planning, creating & delivering compelling proof-of-concept demonstrations, thus helping the clients make decisions on Cloud strategy.
  • Communicates effectively across client organizations, including executives, stakeholders, product, and delivery organizations.
  • Drive scope definition, requirement analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
  • Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of technical challenges to achieve customer satisfaction.

Cloud Architecture, Design, and Development:

  • Design and adapt cloud architectures while being very closely involved with the team in the project implementation (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
  • Ensure delivered solutions are realized in the time frame committed; work with delivery managers to size and manage scope and risk.
  • Use DevOps toolchains and set up processes.
  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert for cloud topics like end-to-end architecture, DevOps operations (Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Release Engineering, provisioning, Day-2 automation).
  • Develop solution architectures and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public, and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
  • Contribute to Cloud & DevOps development activities and complex implementation tasks.
  • Provide support and technical guidance on matters related to cloud architecture, deployment, and operations.

Requirements

  • Excellent expertise in the infrastructure and cloud engineering space with proven experience working with international clients, from building end-to-end solutions to optimizing systems.
  • In addition to your overall experience, you should have at least 5 years in Cloud & DevOps engineering, technical architecture, network management, application development, or operations.
  • Proven experience in developing and presenting proposals (including cost estimates, resource requirements, and project timelines), organizing client workshops, and guiding sales meetings.
  • Proficient in one or more cloud service providers like Azure, AWS or GCP and their architecture.
  • Solid networking skills.
  • Operating systems knowledge is essential.
  • DevOps skills like CI/CD, Containerization and Orchestration, Log& Monitoring tool, Serverless computing, Databases, and Message Brokers.
  • A good grip on infrastructure as a code/automation languages like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Azure Resource Manager, and Puppet.
  • Sound knowledge of security and disaster recovery systems.
  • The ability to document architectural decisions.
  • Strong presentation skills, able to speak the language of a client audience.
  • Continuous learning mindset and willingness to stay informed on new methodologies, tools, and best practices in the Cloud space.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Strong communication skills, able to communicate clearly and effectively with all stakeholders, including team members, clients, and management.

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