Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect | DevOps (Remote
As the Senior Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for successfully designing cloud platform engineering solutions while focusing on consulting, project delivery oversight, and pre-sales activities. You will be a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, providing guidance and working closely with clients, partners, and other business units to ensure that consulting engagements meet their objectives. You will support pre-sales activities, such as reviewing requirements, creating level-of-effort estimates, proposals, and delivering proof of concepts. What You'll do: Design, develop, and oversee implementation of consulting and hands-on services offerings for platform engineering. Serve as a cloud native technical resource to determine the needs of our client s businesses and recommend solutions across the broad cloud and platform engineering ecosystems. Align solutions with standards and best practices working with cross-functional engineering and consulting teams. Collaborate and communicate with the Sales and Account Management teams to ensure smooth and successful delivery and assist with the identification of additional services and sales opportunities within the customer s environment. Using your consulting background, establish strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers in client organizations. Contribute to the development of internal best practices as well as new innovative consulting and hands-on services offerings that we can take to market. Develop and deliver proof of concepts to clients. Support the Sales team by creating level-of-effort estimates and proposals. Provide thought leadership in cloud native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering. Provide insights into the partner ecosystem, advancements and emerging technologies related to Platform Engineering, Automation and Observability. Maintain enterprise use cases and stories to support our GTM, offerings and to represent the landscape. Qualifications: Bachelor s degree from an accredited university required or equivalent work experience. Strong consulting background with preferably prior hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering. Extensive experience with Kubernetes (K8s) technologies such as EKS, AKS, GKE, and OpenShift. DevOps and DevSecOps ecosystem experience including CI/CD solutions, Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab, Harness is strongly preferred. Experience with observability solutions and Open Telemetry (OTEL). Experience with BackStage and/or other internal developer portals a big plus. Knowledge of K8s operators and solutions like Cilium and Crossplane. AWS Certified Solution Architect and/or DevOps Engineer. 5+ years of experience with implementation and support of cloud compute, networking, and storage services. Experience with cloud operations using native and third-party tools for monitoring and management. Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Ruby, or GoLang. Highly organized, detail-oriented, excellent time management skills and able to effectively prioritize tasks in a fast-paced, high-volume, and evolving work environment. Ability to approach customer and sales requests in a proactive and consultative manner; listen and understand customer requests and needs and effectively deliver. Effectively facilitate discussions, collaborate with team members, and proactively engage with client resources for tasks such as discovery, requirements analysis, data collection, and synthesis. Create the necessary documentation such as architecture, test/QA, and as-built documentation. Comfortable managing multiple and changing priorities, and meeting deadlines in an entrepreneurial environment. Apply tot his job Apply tot his job Apply To this Job