Cloud Architect

Prosum; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a Cloud Architect to enhance the technical ecosystem for clients in Los Angeles. The role demands 10+ years of experience in architecting cloud solutions, particularly with AWS deployments. Candidates should demonstrate leadership skills and possess a solid foundation in Dev-ops practices. Responsibilities include documenting cloud architecture, overseeing software evaluations, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Excellent communication is essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Experience in fault-tolerant applications focusing on security and scalability.
• Ability to communicate clearly across all organizational levels.
• Experience with identifying and implementing cloud architecture best practices.

Responsibilities

• Improve technical ecosystem for customers and employees.
• Oversee infrastructure software evaluations and selections.
• Document cloud architecture and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

10+ years experience in requirements analysis

Team leadership skills

Infrastructure software evaluations

Dev-ops integration systems expertise

AWS deployment experience

REST services and Microservices

Working knowledge of Hadoop, RedShift, Elasticsearch

Broad architecture domain experience

Document cloud architecture design

Ability to create detailed roadmaps

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Java

Analytics tools (R, Kinesis)

Job description

Our client is one of the world’s leading shopping Center companies with iconic retail destinations in London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles among its portfolio.

Job Description

As an Cloud Architect, you will be a member of a cross-functional team to improve the technical ecosystem and experience for both our customers as well as our employees. We thrive on iterating quickly and are the force behind the technology that empowers our business across the company. The successful candidate must be able to understand the benefits and challenges of cloud architectures, have implementation experience in deploying innovative technologies that cross the security, infrastructure, information, and application technology domains.

Qualifications

We are looking for an Cloud Architect with:

• 10+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, development, unit testing and operation of distributed, fault-tolerant applications with particular attention to security, scalability, performance, availability and cost/revenue optimization.
• Proven team leadership skills and able to demonstrate a well-organized approach to architecture and technical evaluations. Must be able to communicate clearly with all levels in the organization, and able to professionally represent the company with customers.
• Demonstrated expertise with overseeing and facilitating infrastructure software evaluations and selections according to the defined technical review process. Coordinate solution feasibility studies and/or pilots to facilitate evaluation as necessary.
• Deep knowledge with Dev-ops integration systems such as Ansible and Puppet. Architecture design must include clear dev-ops integration plans. “Stress-free” dev-ops maintenance is of high importance. Automation friendly.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with large AWS deployments, including being able to scale and still being secure.
• Demonstrated expertise with REST services and Microservices.
• Working knowledge of Haddop, RedShift, Elasticsearch, Java as well as analytics tools like R, Kinesis or similar.
• Expertise in broad and deep research, often going outside of their area of individual experience. Able to synthesize conclusions from research, compare various solutions and plot complex technology roadmaps for different.
• Experience with architecting high volume web systems or large transaction client-server systems; experience with mobile and other emerging technology trends.
• Ability to contribute to, and balance delivery against, multiple projects/demands simultaneously.
• Broad experience across business, application, information, infrastructure and security architecture domains.
• Broad experience across business analysis, product design, engineering, QA, operations and sustainment in a large corporation / enterprise environment.
• Deep technical experience in consumer and employee facing enterprise systems.
• Analyze new and changing SaaS and PaaS solutions, technology and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Document cloud architecture design and analysis work, including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.
• Adhere to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and related guidance (such as data retention and audit requirements) to determine impact on enterprise information architecture.
• Establishing, maintaining and publishing customer communications related to the cloud architecture.
• Experience with Data lakes and Data governance is a big plus.
• Ability to create detailed short and long term roadmaps (1-5 years).

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.