Sr. Cloud Architect/Cloud Architect

Insight Direct India is seeking a highly skilled and enthusiastic Senior Cloud Architect / Cloud Architect to join our dynamic team. If you're eager to learn, stay updated on emerging cloud technologies, and thrive in an Agile/Scrum environment, this role is for you. You'll work collaboratively with both Insight and client teams, providing expert guidance in cloud solutions, automation, and DevOps practices.

About the Role

As a Cloud Architect, you'll be instrumental in designing, planning, and implementing robust public cloud solutions. You'll also drive automation initiatives and contribute to our knowledge base.

As a Cloud Architect:

• Design, plan, and implement public cloud solutions primarily across Azure, and secondarily AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Lead and deliver projects encompassing systems architecture, proof-of-concept, and deployment services.
• Guide clients through Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) engagements.
• Provide expert advice to clients on enterprise networking, infrastructure, security, and compliance topics in both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Offer expertise to clients regarding hybrid connectivity and multi-cloud strategies.
• Drive Cloud economics workshops and cost optimization techniques.
• Design highly complex event-driven architectures.

As an Automation Architect:

• Administer software development platforms end-to-end (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub), focusing on user access, permissions, security best practices, and creating/maintaining teams, projects, repositories, and credentials.
• Conduct thorough reviews of pull requests, enforcing code quality and ensuring integration testing is part of the review process.
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines, integrate development tools, and optimize workflows.
• Implement and manage branching strategies to facilitate efficient development processes.
• Collaborate effectively with development teams and other stakeholders to support development needs.
• Write and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy cloud solutions, leveraging reusable modules to minimize redundant code.
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate a variety of processes, including writing and optimizing scripts in languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash, utilizing tools like Terraform, Ansible, AZ CLI, or cloud-native scripting solutions.
• Write best-practice, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines to execute code quality & security scans, build application code, execute tests, and deploy applications to target environments.
• Write excellent documentation, including README.md files, code comments, architecture documents, knowledge base docs, and Wikis.
• Provide subject-matter expertise and be a trusted advisor to clients, advising on best-fit technologies and best practices.
• Demonstrate thought leadership by speaking on technology trends internally and/or externally.
• Help grow Insight's knowledge base and IP around Cloud Enablement and DevOps.

What We're Looking For

Background and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field preferred.
• Certifications in relevant technologies or cloud providers are highly valued, or demonstration of ongoing learning.
• 7+ years of experience in consulting services or similar roles focused on project-based work and/or solution development.

Technical Skills

• Expert understanding of cloud infrastructure, primarily Azure, secondarily AWS and/or GCP.
• Expert with Cloud Adoption Frameworks and Well-Architected Frameworks, with solid experience delivering CAF and WAF engagements.
• Experience with on-premise to cloud migrations.
• Experience designing and deploying cloud architectures that include disaster recovery sites, as well as designing, implementing, and executing failovers and failbacks.
• In-depth experience in automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Configuration-as-Code (CaC), and management of cloud-hosted resources.
• Experience working in a DevOps and Agile culture.
• Experience with DevOps and IaC tools such as Hashicorp Terraform, Azure Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins is preferred.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing is preferred.
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, and/or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Python, Go, and/or Ruby.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
• Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, as well as knowledge in container architectures and deployment.
• Background in application development (.Net, or other development frameworks) is a plus.
• Background in systems engineering, networking, and server infrastructure is helpful.