Principal Architect Cloud and Infrastructure Automation

Required Education and Experience 

* Minimum 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or its equivalent.  

Required Skills 

* 5+ years of experience in cloud computing application implementations on AWS or Azure or Google Cloud experience 

Desired Skills 

* Strong background in creating secure cloud architectures for customer facing applications that are enterprise grade and highly scalable

* Solid understanding and experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

* Deep experience in cloud computing architecture, technical design and implementations including right fit of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models

* Proficient in configuration management and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Nexxus, Kubernetes, Chef/Puppet/Ansible

* Experience with build-time dependency management (e.g. Ant, Maven); unit testing and code-coverage tools; test automation techniques and tools; and build automation tools (e.g. Jenkins,)

* Automation skills using CLI scripting in any language (bash, perl, python, ruby, etc.)

* Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure components and experience with Business continuity and long- term data management in cloud environments

* Deep experience in Software design and development, Systems Operations/ Management; Database architecture, Storage and IT Security

* Knowledge of Cloud Security design and architecture

* Virtualization and Containerization experience

* Skilled in Java, Spring, Python/Perl and C/C++ or some variation of these skills