We are looking for a Cloud/DevOps Architect to join our team! In the role of Cloud/DevOps Architect, you will take early ideas and build prototypes while experimenting with advanced technologies and platforms. You should be willing to take on challenges of unknown dimensions and work hand in hand with lead engineers to prototype and test early concepts. You will need to have extraordinarily strong technical skills, deep curiosity, business acumen, and the ability to think and act fast.

Work at Exadel - Who We Are 

Since 1998, Exadel has been engineering its products and custom software for clients of all sizes. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Exadel has 2,000+ employees in development centers across America, Europe, and Asia. Our people drive Exadel’s success and are at the core of our values.

About Our Customer

Founded in the Netherlands 180+ years ago, the company operates in over 150 countries. The customer is a global leader in information services for health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance, and legal sectors.

About Our Project

The team’s workflow is focused on migrating the hosted infrastructure from Rackspace to Microsoft Azure. The goals of the project are to build IaC; to build and deploy pipelines that aid build & promotion of immutable artifacts; and to adopt cloud services and serverless technologies.

Requirements

• 3+ years of senior-level support with cloud infrastructure development as part of responsibilities
• 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e., having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in migrating on-premise workloads to the cloud
• 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects
• High-level expertise in both AWS and Azure Cloud solutions
• Oversight experience on major transformation projects and successful transitions to implementation support team
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Deep technical background in infrastructure design, including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security, and storage
• Understanding of how to build resilient multi-site architectures
• Proficiency in Windows, Linux, Oracle, and Unix platforms
• Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources
• Readiness to perform Team Lead responsibilities
• Availability for cross-team time overlap (8 am-11 am CT USA)

Nice to have

.Net, .Net Core, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and other niche languages

English level

Upper-Intermediate+

Responsibilities

• Review and evaluate architectures of existing systems and software products to identify reuse and platforming opportunities as well as refactoring opportunities
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to the teams in the implementation of established architectures and designs
• Mentor and coach architects and developers to ensure that architecture and requirements best practices are followed
• Establish and enforce quality standards for cloud software architectures
• Drive high-priority customer initiatives on Azure 
• The role is a technical, customer-facing role that is accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience
• Own the Azure technical customer engagement, including developing the architectural design on specific implementation projects and/or Proofs of Concepts and Cloud solution architecture components of customer-facing contract bid responses
• Assess Azure footprint readiness for deployment activities