Cloud Architect (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Cloud Architect for our client in Pennington, NJ. Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

• We are looking for a passionate, experienced hands-on cloud architect and key technical team member to the group. This role is for you, if you have:
• Architected large Cloud migration or deployment solutions
• Deep understanding of one of the public cloud providers: AWS, Azure or GCP
• Designed, developed and deployed applications to cloud
• Collaborated effectively with product managers, dev leads and developers
• Familiarity with most and expert at a few of modern architectural concepts like Event driven, Domain driven design, Microservices, Batch, NoSQL and Resiliency.

Team:

• The Cloud Development and Enablement (CDE) team at Client is responsible for building industry leading cloud development platforms for on-prem, hybrid and multi clouds. The team is also responsible for building scalable, flexible and modern application and infrastructure pipelines, cloud application architectures and enabling cloud journey through migration and modernization practices.
• You will be part of a cloud focused team leading ongoing transformation of existing application as well as architecting applications towards cloud (both internal and external). You will be a trusted partner with LOB architects, developers as well as our partners from Platforms, security, operations and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities As a Sr Cloud Architect:

• Be able to provide technical direction and lead a group of architects or cloud engineers in building solutions and applications for the cloud 
• Evangelize development of reusable assets to accelerate cloud adoption
• Lead the selection of a migration approach to migrate workloads to cloud or architecting a Greenfield development and/or production platform for new applications
• Provide guidance on engineering methodologies, CICD pipelines and cloud best practices
• Provide hands on expertise on architecting Cloud native applications
• Be responsible for designing and standardizing technical architecture for cloud migration. Define the structure of a system, its interfaces, and the principles that guide its organization, software design and implementation.
• Develop standardized transformation tools & accelerators, Future Roadmap, Point of View/ Though leadership, Maturity Models, Assessments, Reference Architecture, Technology Evaluation Criteria/ Comparison framework
• Perform Pilots for migration of workloads on IAAS/ PAAS
• Conceptualize and build Business Cases Templates that provide ROI/ TCO
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions in the journey of modernization
• Compare various architecture options based on feasibility and impact & propose actionable plans
• Work with vendors to identify solutions for business problems
• As a hands-on contributor
• Create Infrastructure solutions using Linux/Unix/Windows & recommended Storage architectures
• Own a module, solution or an entire solution
• Be willing to code using programming language like Java or .NET, Infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or YAML, JSON.
• Advise and assist Line of Business Tech teams in migrating workloads on Cloud
• Write technical blogs, participate in internal forums
• Develop awareness on emerging technologies, their potential application for service offerings and product development

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