Senior Architect - Operations

Job Description

nullIn this role, you have the opportunity toAs technical strategy is developed - the operations function needs to follow suit to ensure all current and future deliveries will be a success. The Operations Architect will be engaged up front at the solution definition phase.The role of Sr Operations Architect will be involved in:

• Ensuring new technologies can be delivered without impacting customers
• Ensure Operational framework for Service Design is implemented
• Ensure that Operational requirements of services are fully understood
• Optimize Cloud services architecture for performance and cost
• Deliver an optimized infrastructure services design leveraging public, private, and hybrid Cloud architectures and services.
• Act as subject matter expert to technical architecture aspects of infrastructure and support services.
• Embedding best practices
• Defining end to end operational flows which ensures customer experience of service is understood

You are responsible for

• Own and lead initiatives to create design documents that translate into successful systems implementation which includes reference architecture in conjunction with Engineering architects, infrastructure architects, Security, and/or outside vendors.
• Create business requirements to determine infrastructure design, potential issues, and related cost for each project/feature request.
• Socialize requirement documents, and develop implementation strategies that preserve the integrity, availability, stability, and scalability of systems and designs, consistent with cost (Capital and Labor) constraints.
• Demonstrate expertise and leadership in problem solving. Work with Engineers, Systems Administrators, Network Engineers, Architects, DB Administrators, and vendors to prevent or solve difficult performance problems.
• Interact with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to availability, functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles.
• Contribute to the selection, prototyping, and implementation of hardware, Operating Systems, applications and tools, and technical solutions to business problems
• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategic and tactical goals.
• Very strong leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization.
• Acts as a technical liaison between product, service engineering and operations team
• Familiar with scripting language
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture and VMware
• Understanding of CI/ CD tools Jenkins, Artifactory, Git, Devops
• Production level expertise with containerization orchestration engines ie Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos
• Understanding of operational processes, security & licensing

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelor/Master of Engineering in the field of Computer Science/ Electronics and Communication or equivalent
• 15+ years related work experience and at least 8 years exp. with System/Infra experience
• Strong cloud computing experience and able to guide engineers Tier 2/ Tier 3 (System/Application/Platform/Support)
• Operations mindset with a customer- first focus
• Experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
• Experience working directly with Cloud providers/ infrastructure and their services AWS, Azure, database technologies (Sql, vertica), operating systems Windows, Linux
• Handson administration experience with Linux, Windows, MySQL and Tomcat.
• Experienced with virtualized platforms such as VMWare, KVM and Docker.
• Familiar with monitoring tools such as Splunk, DataDog, Graphana, NewRelic
• Experience with server deployment, licensing, security & cost optimization

Professional attributes:

• Strong abstraction, analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with software development methodologies such as agile (SAFE), scrum and the V-model
• Ability to understand E2E and solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions
• Technical mentorship
• Fast learner. Ability to grasp key concepts quickly with minimal or no supervision
• Ability to take ownership of team goals and deliver with quality and within required timeline
• Ability to innovate and foster innovation in operations
• Personality skills to collaborate with colleagues from different teams/levels and think across functional borders
• A lean/pragmatic attitude who can drive change and continuously seeks improvements and ways to reduce waste .

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