Lead Cloud Software Architect

Roberts Recruiting; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Massachusetts is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Software Architect to create scalable cloud architectures for warehouse automation services. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in cloud technologies, leadership skills, and a passion for robotics. Responsibilities include leading cloud migrations and driving SaaS architecture design. Competitive salary and innovative work environment offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise Cloud technologies.
• Experience leading a team to deploy a SaaS application.
• Familiarity with CI/CD deployment tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead migration to cloud, including architecture and infrastructure.
• Drive design and implementation of a scalable SaaS/PaaS architecture.
• Contribute to architecture discussions for service-oriented architecture.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Leadership

Cloud architecture design

Containerization

Microservices

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

We develop leading-edge fulfillment technology that gets the right product to the right place at the right time. In today’s age of immediacy, where customers expect to receive their order right away, retailers must take a completely new approach to compete. By leveraging AI, robotics and machine learning, we transform how businesses fulfill orders and keep promises to their customers.

We are on a mission to build the world’s first fully automated flexible warehouse, and we are growing! We design, develop and deploy advanced robotics systems at warehouses, distribution centers and fulfillment centers. We're looking for an experienced, motivated self-starter to join our team and help us architect, integrate, and deploy our newest cloud-based warehouse automation product. You'll succeed here if you're an infinitely resourceful creative thinker with superior technical and leadership skills. You'll love it here if you have a passion for cloud-based systems and robotics, and thrive in high performing teams.

As a Lead Cloud Software Architect, you will be responsible for creating and building a scalable cloud architecture to drive warehouse automation services controlling thousands of individual robots processing millions of inventory transactions per day.

• Lead migration to cloud, including architecture, infrastructure, and deployment

• Drive design and implementation of a scalable and flexible SaaS/PaaS architecture that can be deployed in cloud environments

• Work with other architects to adopt frameworks, data models, security mechanisms, and deployment infrastructure that supports a high availability and fault tolerant robotic system.

• Contribute to architecture and design discussions spanning service-oriented architecture

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise Cloud technologies, ideally including one or more of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

• Prior experience leading a team to deploy and monitor a SaaS application

• Familiarity with containerization, K8s, and CI/CD deployment tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, etc

• Subject matter expert for networking in a cloud environment

• Able to design large scale cloud infrastructures to support enterprise SaaS operations, and deploy those to cloud environments.

• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure components (network, compute, storage, load balancers, monitoring) and how to best leverage each in a microservice architecture.

• Experience with architecting high availability cloud applications or microservices on GCP, Azure, or AWS

• Familiarity with authentication protocols, core network and system security principles along with up-to-date understanding of modern attack patterns and methods to drive security into all the Cloud Infrastructure and services built by the team.

• Experience designing for disaster recovery

• Familiarity with data anonymization and security