Group Cloud Solutions Architect at Liquid Intelligent Technologies

ROLE PURPOSE

The Cloud Solutions Architect’s primary responsibility is to ensure customer success with cloud solutions. Acting as the subject matter expert on cloud solutions and related technologies for the project delivery team, the Cloud Solution Architect is responsible for defining tasks, scope and effort obtained during customer engagement sessions. The Cloud Solution Architect will be involved in the qualification and bid process for new opportunities providing relevant technical input into the process. It is important that the Cloud Solution Architect should understand the customer’s project objectives, cost implications, scalability and performance requirements, security and compliance requirements and undertake detailed research to identify the optimal cloud solution required so as to be able to deliver a correctly designed solution architecture that meets customer business requirements. The Cloud Solutions Architect also ensures correct and timeous project delivery by internal resources or external service providers.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Post Graduate Degree in IT or Engineering related field
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect / Azure Architect
• Industry certification e.g., Cisco (CCNP, CCDP, and above), Microsoft (Cloud), CECP(MEF) / Networking/Security/Applications/Unified Communications
• 5-10 years' experience supporting cloud-based infrastructures
• Demonstrated experience in architecting large-scale cloud migration projects/programmes and the ability to solve complex, multi-system problems
• Experience working in a close Agile / Scrum team
• In depth understanding of Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud solutions and experience integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models with a specific focus on AWS or Azure
• Extensive experience conducting Cloud Readiness Assessments observing business and technical perspectives. Experience evaluating existing data centre and digital strategies, conducting cloud service maps, TCO analysis, security considerations as part of a wider Cloud Adoption Framework
• Knowledge of converged solutions design and development e.g. fixed mobile convergence, triple or quad play services and unified communications, cloud services, etc.
• Cross Domain Technology Architecture knowledge coupled with implementation experience Industry knowledge of Data Center trends, Software Defined Data Centers, Hyper Convergence, Cloud Technologies (Public, Private and Hybrid)

KEY OUTPUTS

• Manage the assurance of Cloud services through / by ensuring high-resolution efficiency for repeat incidents
• Maintain architecture design standards
• Comply with all Process, Patch Management, Change Process, etc for any deployed and managed cloud-based solutions
• Produce reports to measure compliance to SLA and MTTR for customer managed cloud services Evaluate cloud architecture performance utilization, using vendor and other tools to make recommendations
• Conduct customer cloud readiness assessments and reports the outcome. Deploy customer solutions based on best practices including migrations, cloud networking and new set-ups
• Review, analyse, and create prototype C# code to verify functionality of Azure services as proof of concepts (POCs) for Azure / Azure Stack
• Prepare capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases
• Implement a structured design process for creating a hybrid or public cloud architecture
• Monitor resources, networks, security, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DaaS architectures. Cloud platform Implementation, Testing and Acceptance. Work with third parties including support, billing and troubleshooting
• Non-standard/complex solutions - Cross functional engagements, Sales support, Service Desk, Products, Bid Office & engagement with Engineering. Training for sales, architects, customer employees and product teams