Guide the client on technology evaluation, technical thought leadership, requirement gathering, and direction.
Design and document the detailed architecture and provide the walkthrough to the client directly.
Take a lead in preparing functional and technical specification documents.
Guide, and nurture the team members for successful delegation.
Lead project deliveries and engage with the Go-To-Market teams for pre-sales requirements.
Work closely with the business team to highlight and mitigate any risks to the projects proactively.
Maintain a rapport with client-partners, manage their expectations, and plan for engineering.
Guide and help team members debug and solve technical problems.
Lead engagements with multiple work streams; prepare project plans and manage deliverables.
Review and perform code walkthrough for quality deliverables to the client.
Showcase thought leadership on technology roadmaps, agile development methodologies, and out-of-the-box-thinking.
Requirements:
8+ years of IT experience in the Infrastructure realm that includes detailed understanding of Cloud providers(GCP, AWS or Azure - added advantage to multi-Cloud experience) and their best practices, Networking, Compliances(HIPAA, GDPR, NIST), and Cloud services(serverless, server-based).
Detailed understanding and proven implementations for DevSecOps pipelines and culture, Containerization(Kubernetes, Docker), Service mesh(Envoy, Tanzu, etc), Database modeling, and Operations(logging, monitoring, alerting).
Thorough understanding of low-latency API architectures using either serverless or server-based services.
Must have a good understanding of the following resources:
Security - Secrets management, IAM policies(Least privilege), Compliances, CMEK keys, safeguarding external API endpoints(using application firewalls or cloud security services).
Networking - Load balancing(HTTPS, TCP, SSL, etc), VPNs(BGP, IPSec), high-speed private Setup of Cloud Foundations and Cloud best practices to help clients build their cloud footprints and adopt its management.
Precision to use the right Cloud services based on clients' requirements.
Past architecture implementations on Kubernetes - pods, services, ingress(default and 3rd party like Nginx), service mesh(like Tanzu), best practices.
Basic experience with programming languages such as Python or Java or Golang.
Experienced in IaC(Terraform), Vaults, and scripting languages such as BASH, Shell, or Powershell.
Implementation of processes within the Client's environment, such as the implementation of the DevOps model for CICD, operations for visibility, etc.
Design, and prototype new solutions for smoother delivery, and implement self-healing and alerting capabilities for mission-critical applications.
Proven ability to consume Client's DevOps tools(such as Jenkins, Cloud Build, Bamboo, Trevor, Sonarqube, checkmark, artifactory etc) to build DevSecOps pipelines.
Must have some experience in Application, and Data migration projects either for on-prem data centers to Cloud or between Cloud to Cloud.
Work along with the Account leads and Business team to grow the account based on future possible use cases.
Well-versed in identifying the right service and databases based on requirements (such as SQL NoSql, Redis, data warehousing).
Strong Linux System experience with an appetite to troubleshoot and guide the team towards resolution.
Experience with Multi-regional architecture setup and awareness about known issues at computing, and database levels.
Certifications are an added advantage such as CKAD, CKS, GCP Associate/Security/Networking/DevOps, AWS, Azure, Terraform, etc.