PreSales Cloud Solutions Architect (AWS and) @ CloudThat Technologies

• Develop Cloud-native technical approach and proposal plans identifying the best practice solutions meeting the requirements for a successful proposal. Create, edit, and review documents, diagrams, and other artifacts in response to RPPs RFQs and Contribute to and participate in presentations to customers regarding proposed solutions.
• Cloud Architecture: Develop Public/Hybrid cloud reference architecture, Define target state cloud architecture, Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations, Microservices architecture and Hybrid cloud integration architecture.
• Cloud Deployment: Hybrid Cloud architecture design, integration and security, experience in cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, Docker, etc.
• Design deployment architecture for IaaS / SaaS /PaaS that will address our clients business needs and lead teams that will implement them for our clients.
• Experience in Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.) is good to have
• Experience with workload migration automation tools (multi-cloud)
• Infrastructure provisioning and management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Chef)
• Cloud native logging and monitoring stacks (ELK, EFK, ELE etc)
• Cloud architect certified (GCP, Azure, AWS etc.)
• DevOps and Agile methodologies, processes and tools
• Stakeholder management and relationship building skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Confidently articulates all aspects of solution and persuasively communicates value to the client.
• Influences client evaluation criteria and decision making
• Works individually, within teams or as a leader, to determine customer requirements in complex and ambiguous environments.
• The individual must be comfortable working at the highest levels of client organizations and interacting closely with the senior executives
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated with strong analytical and presentation skills.
• Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams and possess cross-cultural competence
• Attention to detail and high-quality deliverables
• Analyze architecture pain points to determine the best approach to providing a solution wearing many hats and gain experience with tools, technologies and platforms across many technology stacks.
• Learn new things, and grow rapidly from constant exposure to innovative ideas, concepts, and patterns by continuously researching and evaluating new technologies to keep abreast of current solutions

Requirements:

• 7 years of experience in application and infrastructure architecture
• 3 years of experience in designing architectures on Cloud
• Experience creating, deploying and operating large scale applications on AWS/Azure/GCP
• An advanced level Cloud Certification is an added advantage
• Understanding of microservices and serverless architecture is an added advantage
• Coding experience in one or more scripting languages e.g. Java, Python, NodeJS, bash etc.
• Excellent communication, presentation and writing skills
• Should have hands on experience of working on Cloud (AWS , Azure).
• Should understand costing of different cloud services and optimizations.
• Should have experience with all major AWS (or) Azure services.
• Conduct proof of concept (POC) and implement the design in AWS / Azure.
• AWS Certifications is must. AWS Professional Certification is good-to-have.

Key Personal Attributes:

• A strong stage presence and ability to manage client interactions, requirement gathering discussions, etc.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction providing technical and non-technical support to multiple users
• Proficient in technology consulting, training and development
• A strong people motivator with prominent levels of energy
• Proactiveness - Be proactive in understanding the needs of our customers/clients
• Relentless learner and the passion to pick up recent technologies