Cloud Solution Architect Job Description
Cloud solution architect
provides cloud security expertise to application teams and collaborate with other teams like infrastructure, cloud, security engineering, and compliance.
Cloud Solution Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Executing POCs
Drive the deployment of financial services solutions into Azure and increase their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers for customers
Create detailed Cloud Infrastructure technical designs to support the projects they are assigned to
Apply technical knowledge to produce creative yet practical designs that Architecture and Engineering can understand and operate, which can be implemented and rolled out
Work with project teams and Technical Designers, ensures alignment to the Solution Architecture, Sainsbury’s IT Roadmap and defined Cloud Competency Standards & Patterns
Where necessary, work with the Product team to ensure designs meet the business requirements
Determine the correct sizing for the new solution with the creation of the Capacity Sizing Model
Work with the Service Operations teams for the implementation and support of the Cloud Infrastructure designs, via the creation of the Implementation Approaches and Plans
Assist with the input into the high-level time and cost estimates for the delivery of the technical elements of a project so that informed decisions can be made about the best way to deliver the required change
Make practical, cost conscious and future proofing decisions, where possible, to keep package customisation to a minimum
Cloud Solution Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Cloud Solution Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, IP, ISO27001/2, VPN, AZ, SQL, OSPF, GCP, CKAD, CKA
Education for Cloud Solution Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the cloud solution architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Math, MBA, Engineering, Education, Architecture, IT Management, Business, Communication
Skills for Cloud Solution Architect
Desired skills for cloud solution architect include:
Cloud development platforms
Market trends and competitive insights
Security
Collaborate and share with the technical community
Python
Java
Virtualization
JSON
PHP
Perl
Desired experience for cloud solution architect includes:
8+ years of technical solutions experience including
3+ years building Cloud Solutions for Visual Compute
3+ years of hands-on solution design and development (hardware, software, system)
Have extensive knowledge of different open stack releases
Knowledge of Cloud industry, mainly IaaS technologies as OpenStack APIs, VMWare Product Suietes, Linux Container technologies
Deep knowledge and experience in ICT and Cloud markets, product, tehnologies and trends and competitive landscape
Cloud Solution Architect Examples
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Cloud Solution Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of cloud solution architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for cloud solution architect
- Develops customer network cloud infrastructure architecture
- Document solution fit/gap against standards and best practices
- Maintain awareness of release and patch schedules of client technologies
- Provide technical and thought leadership in both system integration application development and promote best practices in these areas
- Assist the sales teams with presales activities including
- Working with customers to understand business requirement
- Mentoring of System Engineers engaged in projects and throughout the practice
- Manage expectations of key project stakeholders
- Maintain knowledge of emerging technology and software trends focused on driving comparative advantage for CMI
- Cultivates strong relationships with industry experts
Qualifications for cloud solution architect
- Have a deep IP networking knowledge and broad experience in IPv4 and IPv6 and understands very well the Concepts of OSPF, Nating, VPN
- Job location is Moscow, Russia
- The role will involve traveling between Regional locations with short notice based on needs and with varying duration
- Experience/Understanding of Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Solutions positioning v
- Have IP networking knowledge and broad experience in IPv4 and IPv6
- This position is based out of the US West Region
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Cloud Solution Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of cloud solution architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for cloud solution architect
- Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks
- Foster an environment that encourages deep community participation, an appreciation for capturing and sharing customer insight, thoughtful use of escalation processes, identify technical sales blockers, capture evidence needed to support blockers and drive escalation appropriate
- Involvement into integration activities
- Drive the deployment of infrastructure workloads into Azure and increase their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers
- Serving as a trusted advisor to top ecosystem (ISV, SI, MSP, and Channel) partners
- Developing Azure technical readiness plans for portfolio partners for Cloud Application Development practices
- Driving onboarding plans in conjunction with integration partners
- Ensuring partner technical plan execution and Azure consumption targets are met
- Being a technical leader for Microsoft or RedHat technology who can translate Microsoft/Red Hat roadmap and their product portfolio to Reference Architecture definition
- Develop deep relationships with key customer ITDMs and BDMs, who drive long-term data platform adoption within their company
Qualifications for cloud solution architect
- 5-8+ years applicable design and/or implementation experience required
- A proven track record of success working with senior Government technical decision makers is preferred
- Approximately 5+ years of architecting & consulting experience in the context of a services organization such as large system integrators
- Approximately 5+ year’s design and/or implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications
- Approximately 2+ years’ experience in “migrating” on premise workloads to the public cloud / hybrid cloud
- Help partners develop their Cloud Application Development practices on Azure, including delivering offers to the market based on professional services, managed services and/or IP
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Cloud Solution Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of cloud solution architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for cloud solution architect
- Works closely with PMO to scope next iteration and assist in implementation
- Designing integrations with vendors, including reviewing their solutions and ensuring the vendor documents appropriate SLAs and availability plans
- Communicating across different functional Architecture teams to ensure all teams are aligned with the current architecture approach
- Working with different teams to align on Architecture decisions
- Participation in an Agile SCRUM development team
- Working with new AWS architecture
- Partner with business stakeholders to establish budgets
- Provide financial analysis for technology decisions
- Devise strategies and architectures to optimize consumption of cloud resources
- Work with engineering teams and other architects to make cost effective infrastructure choices for business units
Qualifications for cloud solution architect
- Must be fully flexible and mobile
- Experience of Softlayer, Google Compute Engine, Rackspace
- VMWare or Hyper V based private clouds
- Experience with Cloud Advisory and Transformation services such as Application Modernization, Workload Migration and Software Defined Datacenter
- Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, where and when needed, to do what’s right for the customer and for the organization
- 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of complex application architectures
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Cloud Solution Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a cloud solution architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for cloud solution architect
- Design cloud solutions for industrial/production usage
- Review and select from available cloud solutions for suitability
- Develops infrastructure architecture vision within Industrial IT domain
- Ensures compliance of the overall asset IT infrastructure to architectural standards such as scalability, ease of integration, portability
- Manages creation and alignment of a release plan for all system changes
- Develops business integration and testing approach
- Engages with Production Services to regularly understand problems within environment affecting their expertise area
- Maintains and draws on external network of resources (e.g., vendor development contacts, industry experts)
- Has direct or indirect involvement in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Industrial IT systems within the infrastructure operations domain
- Develop deep relationships with key customer decision makers, who drive long-term data platform adoption within their company
Qualifications for cloud solution architect
- 5+ years of experience implementing and deploying complex, business critical industry solution, predictive maintenance, credit risk analysis, retail personalization, and/or experience in industry functional areas
- Fluent in English language, fluent in Japanese is required if located in Japan respectively
- Highly valued experience using R
- Deep experience with Open Source Platforms and Open Source development tools and methodologies
- Basic enterprise WAN architecture knowledge Basic carrier networking technologies knowledge
- Frequent domestic travel to customer locations and some international travel are required
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Cloud Solution Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of cloud solution architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for cloud solution architect
- As an Automotive Cloud Solution Architect for AWS and MS Azure you are mainly responsible for conceptual work, developed together with our customers, dealing with various systems and stakeholders to ensure deployable, maintainable, scalable, and reliable services
- Your tasks include development of cloud reference architectures for public cloud services (AWS and MS Azure) to work with the clients existing cloud services
- You will be responsible for independent consulting of software projects to develop applications and services
- You will be expected to analyse, implement, optimise and develop, complex processes cutting across topics like automotive, cloud and enterprise software
- Take into account the needs of PFS in operating tools and services
- STP, HSRP, VRRP, Routing protocols, Clustering
Qualifications for cloud solution architect
- Fluency in both Finnish Business English
- 5-10 year experience from ICT industry, and has hold a senior SI positions for 3 to 5 years
- Design cloud platform architecture (network and system) for Europe & Africa regions considering existing group infrastructures in order to facilitate the operations and interactions between hosted platforms (aplications)
- Propose recommendations and technical orientations for next generation datacenters and contribute to elaboration of corporate level cloud platform guidelines
- Participate in design and build phases of the infrastructures
- Follows existing urbanism defined by IMT/OINIS