Cloud Architect

CloudOps; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud consulting is seeking a Cloud Architect to help clients adopt cloud-native technologies. In this full-time role, you will leverage your expertise in designing cloud solutions and collaborate with a dynamic team to tackle innovative technology challenges. You'll play a key role in supporting customers throughout their cloud journey, ensuring quality and efficiency in implementation while enjoying a remote-first work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Employee stock option plan

Ongoing learning and training with certifications

Work-life balance and flexible schedule

Remote-first workplace

Collaborative culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on consulting experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and cloud technologies.
• Strong background in automation and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud systems using IaC tools.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Project Managers.
• Support the development and operations teams in project deployments.

Skills

DevOps practices

Automation

Systems monitoring

Cloud-Native technologies

Infrastructure as Code

Networking

Education

5+ years of customer-facing technology consulting experience

3 years of coding experience in AWS and Azure

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

CI/CD tools

Linux/Unix platforms

Kubernetes

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About CloudOps CloudOps is a cloud consulting, managed services, and software company focused on open source, cloud native platforms, networking, and DevOps. Our purpose is to ensure our customers own their destiny in the cloud; meaning that we help our customers leverage the flexibility of the cloud while reserving the right to change technologies and components, enabling freedom of navigation for our customers on their journey in the “cloudverse” so they can both achieve current goals and adapt to new business requirements over time.

What You Can Expect

At CloudOps, we solve leading-edge technology challenges. We navigate the cloud ecosystem together with our customers - where the landscape, tools, and clouds will have you continuously growing and evolving your career. You'll get hands-on with the tech, enjoy the freedom to learn, and seize the opportunity to do fulfilling work. You'll work alongside an encouraging and dynamic team of teams that take their mission seriously and have fun along the way.

Who We Are Looking For

Are you a motivated Cloud Architect that is passionate about helping companies of various sizes adopt cloud and cloud-native technologies? You'll fit right in. As part of the Consulting and Professional Services Team, you will review customers’ current infrastructure and application platform architecture and help them on the path of migration to cloud or application platform modernization. You will use modern cloud infrastructure design patterns and when appropriate, introduce cloud-native development technologies and processes. A core requirement is to build and maintain relationships with these customers providing technical guidance to infrastructure architects, application developers, and operators. The position requires a balance between multiple disciplines and strong interpersonal skills. This is a full-time position open to candidates in Canada. We are operating remotely.

What You Will Do

Design and implement systems using various Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, etc.).

Design Monitoring and Alerting systems using various tools (e.g., Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Datadog, Pagerduty, etc.).

Design CI/CD pipelines using various tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.).

Collaborate with the Solution Architects during the pre-sales process to establish the expected technical outcomes and associated effort to meet customer needs.

Collaborate with the Project Managers and Solution Architects to break down customer requirements into User Stories and Sub-tasks.

Review implementations of the technical teams to ensure quality standards and deliver feedback.

Support development and operations teams to bring projects relating to Web, App, Network, Server, Storage, and Security into production.

Assist in documentation of the architecture and solution design of cloud platforms, cloud practices, connectivity, and deployment patterns.

Develop subject-matter expertise in the Azure, Google, and/or AWS cloud platforms, Cloud-Native technologies, and DevOps marketplace.

Deliver presentations and demonstrations of cloud solutions with a particular focus on Cloud-Native technologies.

Participate in community and market activities, including participation in trade shows.

What You Will Need

5+ years of hands-on customer-facing experience in customer-facing positions as a technology Consultant/Architect.

3 years of coding experience developing/programming for cloud technologies in AWS and Azure: infrastructure as code, automation, fluent in DevOps practices.

A strong automation background and related experience.

An understanding of DevOps concepts and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD and agile methodologies.

Experience using and/or developing on a Unix/Linux platform.

To pay attention to IT Operations trends and new best practices.

A solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics.

Experience in automation of code deployment across multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, as well as VMWare, OpenStack and Cloud Stack.

Experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as ECS, GKE, AKS, Kubernetes, Mesos, and/or OpenShift.

Experience with public cloud services beyond basic IaaS functionality.

Experience developing automation with Terraform or other infrastructure provisioning tools.

Architecture and implementation experience building production infrastructure using code and repeatable designs.

Knowledge of ITIL processes and experience evolving to Agile development lifecycles.

Knowledge of networking and software-defined networking in cloud environments.

What We Can Offer You

The opportunity to contribute to a meaningful purpose: solve leading-edge & cloud native technology challenges; navigate the cloud ecosystem with our customers, and do fulfilling work

A team of trusting, curious, and supportive individuals that will contribute to evolving your career in the clouds

A competitive compensation package, including an employee stock option plan and a comprehensive benefits plan

Ongoing learning and training, with certifications

Participation in open source and partner communities

Work-life balance and a flexible schedule

A remote-first workplace with a collaborative and friendly culture (including a weekly happy hour)

Over 15 years in business and internationally recognized leader in cloud computing

What To Expect Once You Apply

You will be invited to join a 30-minute intro call with our recruitment team, and we will walk you through the team's mission, the role, the interview process and requirements.

We'll ask you to demonstrate your technical capabilities and will invite you to complete acouple of technical quizzes.

You will be invited to join a 30-minute call with the hiring manager to deep dive into the role, team and projects, and they will answer any of your questions.

The final interview isa 1-hour technical discussion with members of your future team.

Candidates will be asked to undergo a security screening, which includes a criminal record investigation, the results of which must be acceptable to CloudOps.