As a Cloud Architect you will be a part of our Engineering team that is building high quality enterprise class software for the retail industry.

Job Requirements :

- Creating a well-informed cloud strategy and managing the adaptation process.

- Evaluating cloud applications, hardware and software.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our products.

- Build effective monitoring and alerts for the Production and non-productions deployments of our products.

- Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime.

- Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required.

- Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components.

- Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure.

- Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery.

- Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing.

- Perform automatic backup / restore of production database.

- Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost effective manner.

- Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception.

- Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed.

- Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members.

- Keep an eye on evolving DevOps best practices in the industry and plan for their adoption.

- Adopt Industry Best practices in DevOps.

- Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps or BitBucket Pipelines.

- Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes.

- Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc.

- Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.

- Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup.

- Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems.

- Certification in at least 1 public cloud system.

- Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.

Good to Have :

- Minimum 7 years of DevOps experience, preferably in a Software product company.

- Graduate or Postgraduate in Engineering / Computer Applications.

- Has familiarity with the retail industry domain.

- Expertise in more than one cloud provider like Azure, AWS etc.

- Desire to work on complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.

- Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.

Certifications :

Following certifications will be an added advantage for the Cloud Architect role.

- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

- AWS Certified Solution Architect.

- GCP Certified Cloud Architect.

- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

- Microsoft Azure training and certifications.