Cloud Architect - Azure/IAC Terraform

Role : Cloud Architect

Location : Hyderabad

Exp : 8-11 Yrs

Skills : Azure, Terraform and Githubhub Actions

Job Description :

Technical Design, Development & Problem Solving :

- Provide recommendations on architectural changes to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance and to reduce cost

- Explore and recommend new technologies/services. Articulate the advantages of various solution options

- Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance

- Ability to independently develop algorithms and deliver results in production environments at scale.

- Ability to take on proof of concepts to prove new technologies

- Problem solves with little to no guidance

- Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems

- Conduct and oversee design & code reviews

Execution & Delivery :

- Ability to independently execute complex, long-term projects

- Understand context of the work rather than just focusing on what is assigned.

- Excellent communicator and collaborates well with people inside the team and in other organizations

- Innovate and is open to ideas to improve efficiency and works with the team to pivot if necessary.

- Write clean, high-performance, well tested infrastructure code with a focus on reusability and automation (e.g. Ansible, Python, Terraform etc...)

Leadership :

- Mentor core developers

- Partner with business stakeholders and product managers to define project timelines and deliverable at each project stage.

- Awareness and involvement in identifying the resources which would be required for project delivery.

- Being able to identify resources from other departments.

Requirements :

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- 3+ Years of experience in AWS/Azure cloud

- 5+ years in architecting and implementing fully automated, secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi cloud/hybrid-cloud solution

- History of developing scripts to automate infrastructure tasks

- Experience with network infrastructure skills (e.g. setting up and managing firewalls, WAFs, network segregation, VPNs and network ACLs)

- Seasoned Infrastructure as Code developer (Terraform is strongly preferred)

- Experience with Identity and Access Management

- Practical experience with version control systems (Git is preferred)

- Production level experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)

- Good scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python)

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment

- Familiar with Agile methodology concepts

- Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions