Cloud Architect Staff

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Designing and building: Creating cloud architecture that spans multiple areas of IT, such as application development, data management, and identity and access management, including the security of the architecture.
• Managing and monitoring: Maintaining the architecture, troubleshooting, and monitoring performance and security.
• Selecting and evaluating: Choosing cloud applications, hardware, and software that align with business requirements.
• Defining best practices: Creating standards for migrating infrastructure, including bulk migrating applications to the cloud.
• Cloud architects typically work with cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Architecture.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and their products like compute services (EC2, Google Compute Engine, Azure VMs), storage services (S3, Cloud Storage, Blob Storage), and others.
• Experience with containerization applications like Docker and Kubernetes, and experience with cloud implementation in cloud-native services like Amazon ECS, EKS, or GKE.
• Experience in DevOps like building CI/CD pipelines using services like AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or other tools.
• Familiarity with Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and container security tools like SonarQube, Veracode, and Clair.