Full-Time Cloud Architect
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Organization Description
IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of Company. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within Company and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.
Job Description:
Cloud Architect
Being a member of IT Architecture department, you will be responsible for designing, creating, communicating, and executing the Enterprise Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud Strategy for Organization and its subsidiaries. This role will focus on developing Enterprise Cloud capabilities, both internal, hybrid and external, and all cloud service types – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Collaborates with the Infrastructure, Technology Risk Management and Application Development organizations during Cloud System design and development phases, providing advice, interpretation, and review of Enterprise Cloud architecture and design principles. Focuses on overall project technical and architecture design, quality of solution, knowledge transfer to other areas, and mentoring the project technical team members. Conducts research and understands cloud computing industry trends with regards to technology and adoption and can understand and evaluate the use of automated tools and utilities and how they relate in support of Company’s overall Enterprise Architecture.
Responsibilities:
Enables Organization to implement the most optimal and effective, business solutions
Maintains understanding of existing applications and technology solutions for leveraging the reuse of services and for the consolidation of services.
Identifies and researches opportunities for converging diverse solutions to a single architecture.
Develops and documents architecture solutions, including designs, guidelines and architecture-specific standards for enterprise-wide implementation.
Leads and enables collaboration across technology specialties – ensures that ADM, Infrastructure, Information Security and Architecture are all working together
Obtains concurrence and agreement on architecture solutions from, as applicable: Applications Development, Infrastructure, CISO, Internal Audit, and Product Management.
Supports adherence to relevant ADM/CMMI, ITIL, internal audit, and risk-management standards. Architects the group’s security policies to ensure compliance with relevant departmental, company-wide, and industry-mandated policies and directives.
Maintains understanding of emerging architecture concepts and methods and associated technology trends.
Conducts presentations and education on Architecture’s concepts and solutions to appropriate areas of Company.
Participates in the design, specification, and implementation of business and technology projects, assuring and resolving adherence to enterprise-wide solutions.
Provides guidance and leadership for Company’s technology standardization process
Works across IT to identify opportunities for reusing technology
Define standards and policies for the security, compliance and governance of data and information stored or processed at an external Cloud provider, including IaaS (Infrastructure), PaaS (Application Platform) and SaaS (Software) models
Establish an Enterprise Cloud strategy, standards and best practices associated with all aspects Cloud offerings. This includes, but is not limited to:
Secure and compliant data and messaging egress and ingress
Federated authentication and authorization models
Automated workload lifecycle management
Data and information at rest encryption and security
Application porting, integration, and maintenance
On-demand, self-service access to Enterprise Cloud applications, platforms and offerings
Overall cloud management tools, monitoring, alerting, chargeback, capacity and performance management, and service level objective definitions.
Qualifications:
Advanced degree in a technical discipline preferred
Experience with Amazon’s EC2, VPC, and S3, Microsoft’s Azure, OpenStack and either the JBoss SOA stack
In depth knowledge of Cloud Management tools and methodologies
AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred, with extensive hands on experience as a Cloud Architect in an enterprise environment
Minimum of 10 years’ experience in IT platform, storage, and network virtualization architecture and engineering, including:
In depth knowledge of private, hybrid and public cloud offerings and vendors
In depth knowledge of the complete VMware datacenter and desktop technology stack.
In depth knowledge of alternative hypervisor platforms and their management capabilities (Xen, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V).
In depth knowledge of storage and network virtualization technologies, capabilities, trends and the automated interaction with the physical infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, HP, Cisco).
In depth knowledge of virtualization management and monitoring technologies, capabilities and market trends
In depth knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows Server Operating platforms
In depth experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, cost frameworks, trends and industry-leading private/public/hybrid cloud vendor offerings and interoperability
Experience with Amazon Services such as AWS, S3, Elasic load balancing / Block / Relational Database
Experience architecting automated data center processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning, leveraging execution and human approval workflow design and implementation
Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized infrastructures
Experience in Linux System Administration
Experience scripting with bash, Ruby, Python and/or similar
Experience in virtualization tools like Vagrant and Docker
Experience with Continuous Development/Deployment/Integration design and best practices
Experience managing and working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible)
Experience in Agile development practices (Kanban or Scrum)
Ability to see opportunities for improvement, take ownership and work closely with others to drive operational improvement
Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to correlate system behaviors based on known interdependencies between those systems
Ability to handle ambiguity, embracing change and helping others see it as an opportunity and able to stay focused on goals while adapting to change
Experience with IBM Mainframe platforms including LPAR, IFL, zVM & zLinux
Experience with IBM P-Series platforms including LPAR, dynamic LPAR, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server and Capacity on Demand
Experience with MS Windows (server and desktop), Solaris, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX Operating platforms
Experience with Web technologies including web services architectures and security
Experience with RDBMS technologies including Oracle RAC, Sybase, MS-SQL, DB2
Experience with 10G & 40G network technologies and I/O Virtualization
Experience overhauling legacy applications to work with modern technologies
Experienced with Atlassian as an Agile development management tool (JIRA)
Experience with various application architectures
About Organization
Company safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry’s needs and we’re working to continually improve the world’s most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.
