Applore Technologies - Cloud Architect - Ansible/Terraform

Requirements :

Essential :

- Red Hat Certified Architect or Equivalent, Azure Cloud Architect, AWS Cloud Architect, OCI Cloud Implementation.

- At least 8 years of experience in a relevant technical position in large organizations.

- Must have led 2 transformation projects, migration of on-prem workloads to a Public Cloud solution.

- Must be an expert in Terraform and Ansible and have hands-on experience in migrating applications to the Cloud.

- Must have experience in managing pipelines using Jenkins.

Essential :

- GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment.

- Must have an expert in comparing services across the Public Cloud.

- Must understand cloud adoption model for major cloud services, CPU Architectures, Storage, and Network connectivity.

- Knowledge of Windows internals.

- In-depth knowledge of Public Cloud Technologies.

- Knowledge about API communications (Rest/Soap), developing a new consumer/publisher for any API.

Essential :

- Conceptual understanding of infrastructure and how it works, DNS (Authoritative and Non-Authoritative DNS, Dynamic and Bind DNS, Forwarder), SSL Communication (Handshake of SSL traffic, Cipher Suites, Enc Algorithms), Active Directory (Security OUs, policies).

- Certificates (SAN, client-authentication, keystores, mutual SSL) Load balancers / Site Selectors / Firewall, Vault Tools (CyberArk / Hashi Corp), High Availability and Resiliency.

- Excellent Scripting in Groovy (writing Jenkins Files), Bash / PowerShell /Python.

- Must understand the principles of cloud connectivity, SDWAN, and private connectivity.

- Strong understanding of Repository and Artifact management Tools (Red Hat Satellite,

Spacewalk, Nexus).

- Strong understanding of Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

- Good experience of automating pipelines for databases (e. creating users in a database, provisioning databases, etc).

- Good understanding of major database technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, and MongoDB.

Behavioral Competencies :

- Thinking Related, Communication, Strategic Thinking with Research and Development mindset.

- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).

Preferred :

- Excellent hands-on experience in configuration management, orchestration, and IaC tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform).

- Strong understanding of OS Compliance Policies (CIS Benchmark).

- Agile methodologies and their ceremonies.