Description

Manage the enterprise-wide cloud strategy, develop the architecture governance framework, and define architecture foundations

Serve as a trusted advisor to global technology leaders

Stay abreast of new industry trends and provide subject matter expertise in cloud technologies, providing consultation to leadership

Research, analyze, design, propose and support the delivery of solutions that are appropriate for business and technology strategies

Understand, advocate and support IT enterprise strategies and act as a visionary to proactively assist in the direction for future strategies

Recommend best-fit cloud solutions based on need and risk appetite

Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to develop architecture requirements

Participate in the development and ongoing management of enterprise architecture governance structure based on business and IT strategies

Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide infrastructure decision-making

Manage the budget for the teams that you are responsible for and the related infrastructure & services

Supervise day to day operations. Guiding team to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service while striving to provide world-class service

Effectively communicate status of all projects, problems, and issues to the IT senior management team

Must have high attention to detail, be well organized and be a self-starter

Must be able to work with limited direct supervision

Regularly communicates project health and identifies risks to project and program stakeholders, sponsors, and management

Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate complex or consequential issues to management

Identify and direct changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms

Define cloud standards, DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tool chain and Standard Operating Environment (SOE)

Define, implement, and enforce the cloud standard operating environment, cloud standards, and associated tools/platforms/frameworks, in coordination with IT-wide efforts and Technology Architecture and Planning

Drive Proof-of-Concepts and implementation, with hands-on involvement as SME, for new SOE items: build deployment automation pipelines, build automated next gen CI/CD pipelines partnering with development teams, build and integrate new technologies like containers enabling multi-cloud and preventing cloud provider lock-in

Contribute to, and influence IT-wide definition and enhancements of Azure and other public cloud platforms customization, standards, and best practices

Represent the organization externally in conferences and summits. Build partnerships and network with other external vendors to understand tool offerings, how we can integrate and benefits to the organization

Understand and build on emerging industry trends and how they work with the organization

Define and execute the IT application portfolio strategy for public and private cloud migrations, data center consolidation, and on-premises evolution, in alignment with overall IT strategy and directions

Plan and drive public cloud migration: Total cost of ownership including projections and budgets, application assessment, security concerns and resolution, network concerns and resolution, review checklists with application owners, operations teams, development and testing, DBA’s, appropriate migration paths, etc.

Define and enforce Cloud architecture best practices: availability; redundancy schemes, performance, Disaster Recovery, DB, and Interfacing Systems, etc.

Educate teams about Cloud standards, migrations, and SOE

Drive training sessions, curriculum, and code labs in our Cloud Dojo with dev teams

Be SME and expert across the business for all Cloud technical hands-on questions, with an initial focus on Azure and Cloud Native, 12 Factor Software development

This list is not exhaustive; you will be expected to carry out any other duties that are deemed reasonable in relation to your position

Education and Experience

5-7 years of systems design experience with at least 4 or more years of experience with cloud like technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Pref

Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas: software design or development, application design, systems operations/management, database architecture, virtualization, IP networking, storage, IT security and Linux system administration Pref

Experience with the following: Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache and Azure App Service, Containers Pref

Experience in articulating the business drives and architectural approach/trade-offs during discussions for solution buy-in at various levels and gain consensus Pref

Experience in driving new infrastructure technologies from proof-of-concepts to full production implementation Pref

Experience in driving cloud migration and strategy initiatives Pref

Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work or military experience

Master’s Degree – preferred

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees