The primary purpose of the role will be to undertake technical accountability for execution of below engagements across multiple private and/ or public cloud platforms
Define enterprise cloud strategies with architecture assessments and migration focused analysis
Definition of migration strategies and wave plans
Create high level cloud platform architecture and design
Review and approve detailed designs produced by the team
Provide technical leadership for platform design, automated build and/ or migration of workloads
Primary Responsibilities:
End to end technical accountability towards successful delivery of the engagement
Work closely with our clients, program and project manager(s), technical staff and other IT stakeholders
Translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into architectural designs
Produce architecture and high-level designs and defend the solution design decisions
Application and infrastructure assessments towards developing an automated build and migration strategy
Evaluate project requirements and determine actionable tasks with delivery estimates based on solution architecture approach
Provide strong leadership thinking and technical guidance to assessment, planning, migration and build teams
Review and approve detailed design documentation produced build and migration teams
Identify dependencies and common infrastructure components, and to assess migration feasibility
Validate automated infrastructure level test plans and their execution
Obtain sign-off from our client for the agreed design, build and migration deliverables
Work with our client’s IT stakeholders to ensure that the ITSM process are executed to support the Day 2 build and migration activities
Validate operational readiness and ensure production acceptance criteria are met for smooth transition to support teams (BAU)
Validate and review handover documentation to delivery / support (BAU) teams and conduct transition, KT, handover workshops
Other Responsibilities:
Contribute to solution and offering development within Cloud practice
Deliver proof-of-concepts for innovative solutions
Extend support to sales and pre-sales teams by recommending fit for purpose solutions during RFI, RFP processes
Support various organization wide learning and development activities by providing technical mentorship to team members
Requirements
Mandatory Technical Skills:
Expert level hands-on working knowledge on atleast one of the cloud platforms – AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware or Azure Stack with intermediate architecture knowledge on the second and fundamental coverage of the rest
Led and successfully delivered atleast one end to end large scale enterprise cloud architecture, design, build or migration project with multi tier applications
Broad skill spectrum covering Hybrid Cloud based IaaS and PaaS platforms with experience in designing for cloud native container-based environment deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE)
Good hands-on experience with CI/ CD automation tools, preferably cloud agnostic – Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins.
Thorough understanding of assessment methodologies to develop fit for purpose enterprise cloud strategy
Strong foundation across operating systems and core infrastructure tools – Active Directory, DNS
Demonstrable architectural breadth across other infrastructure domains – Cloud networking, storage, backup, databases and cybersecurity
Preferred:
Cloud migration tools – native or 3rd party
Cloud native experience around serverless, event meshes and NoSQL databases
Experience of working in an Agile project delivery
Relevant expert level cloud or architecture certifications
Personality Skills:
Should have a exemplary verbal and presentation skills
Excellent written skills are required for solution architecture documentation
Able to present and communicate technical designs and solutions to peers and CXO level stakeholders
Interact clearly with client, on-shore and offshore project teams
Willingness to work on multiple technologies
A background of infrastructure design engineering and deployment experience in an outsourced service industry