Job Description

Role: Cloud Solutions Architect


Location: Downer Grove, IL - Hybrid 3 days Onsite/Week


Duration: Long term


Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
• Participate in architecture and design discussions that produce requirements.
• Interpret requirements and code in a manner that encourages reuse and maintainability.
• Understand underlying technologies to build optimized, efficient code.
• Collaborate in an agile-based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand-up calls.
• Work effectively in a complex technical environment and adopt new technologies.
• Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaptation process.
• Define new and/or continuously improve reference architectures.
• Understand key cloud computing security measures and the ability to apply them in architecture designs.
• Logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Qualifications:


Basic Qualifications
• Have excellent communication skills to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to think strategically and relate architectural decisions/recommendations to business needs.
• Deep understanding of cloud solution architecture in one or more major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
• In-depth experience with some or all these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, and Identity and Access Management.
• Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or willing to obtain in the first year.


Preferred Qualifications
• Experience suggesting/recommending competitive and innovative technical options, obtaining client buy-in, and delivering on commitments.
• Comfortable communicating complex, technical topics in an actionable manner to senior leadership.
• Experience with Agile methods, automation, and tools. Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes.
• Excellent client-facing written and oral communications.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills.


Experience
• 5+ years as an engineer or architect working with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Bachelor's degree or 10+ years relevant job experience and a Master's degree.

Job Tags

3 days per week

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