Cloud Solution Architect

Role: Cloud Solutions Architect IIWork location: Charlotte, Denver or St. Louis.Background and Meet and Greet: MANDATORYJob DescriptionProduce architecture blueprints that guide the development and implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple products, providing direction to technical teams during project delivery and ensuring implementations support technology and product roadmaps. The Cloud Solutions Architect provides their expertise in the development and maintenance of architecture standards and solutions that align with strategic goals and partner with product managers, business analysts, designers, and software engineers to navigate solution decisions.ResponsibilitiesResponsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers.Define operational procedures and practicesDefine KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring, and escalation proceduresAccelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirementsIdentify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures.Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches.Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base, mentor, and coach the internal team through internal training sessions.Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements Skills and KnowledgeMandatory SkillsKnowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid cloudsExtensive experience in VMware and workload migrationExtensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL, and HTTPHands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, OpenStack, VMWare, etc.) as well as load balancers and networking devicesExperience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructuresDevelopment experience with database or application integration technologyDeep knowledge of Linux fundamentalsKnowledge of Open-Source architectures and/or past contributions to open-source projectsDesign, development, and operations experience with highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant systemsExperience with agile/scrum methodologiesProfessional Cloud Solutions Architect (PCSA) Certification. 2 - 5 years of experience