The Principal Cloud Architect is responsible for leading the creation of a technology framework and providing technical leadership in support of SRE & CloudOps organizaitons initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
The Principal Cloud Architect reports into the SRE & Engineering organization, but would be embedded into the Cloud-DevOps effort to provide architectural leadership and best practices.
Additionally, the Principal Cloud Architect will be responsible for ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.
Understand all layers of the Commerce and SRE landscape and can analyse the impact of business requirements on various global and local systems involved
Define the scope and functional details together with Local functional teams, combining business process and system understanding.
Collaborate with business teams and technology teams to drive architecture facilitation processes and decision making.
Review/Analayze architecture blue print documents requirement list.
Partner with other egnineering functions to define and govern cloud strategy in line with organization visions and objectives.
Develop and maintain architecture guardrails and patterns that would make cloud adoption and cloud-native application design easy for product and portfolio teams.
The Principle Cloud Architect will be responsbile for ensuring the the cloud based workload meets the well defined architecture guidelines around Cost optimisation, Reliability, Security, Performance, & Operational efficiency.
The Successful Applicant
Strong understanding and functional knowledge about retail/sales/ecommerse domain and associated architecture.
Proficiency in High level Programming languages Java, Node.js, Go, and / or Python.
Professional level certification or equallent qualifications in cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure etc.
Must have deep understanding and knowledge of cloud computing and its characters along with its application in the marketplace and current computing trends
Effective communication skills (written and verbal) to properly articulate complicated cloud reports to management and other IT development partners.
Practical experience and understanding of well architected cloud frameworks such as 'AWS Well Architected Framework'.
Working experience in cloud native solutions in any cloud platform - Kubernetes, Streaming services (kinesis, kafka), queuing services (SNS, SQS), function as a service (lambda, assure functions), S3, Elastic Search, Redis, RDS, DynamoDB, serverless data lakes etc.
Well versed with Microservice Architecture Patterns, Event Driven Architecture, Layerd patterns etc.
Hands on experience in architecting solutions with cloud native and serverless solutions.
Deep level understanding and experience on infrastructure as a code, CloudFormation, cloud development kits, cloud SDKs to be used in various languages etc.
Hands on experience with Docker and Kubernetes and their corresponding provider management services (Amazon ECS / EKS, Google Container Engine, Azure Container Service...).
Experience using cloud governance toolsets around cost management, security and forecasting.
Modern DevOps mindset using best of breed open source and leading Infrastructure as Code SCM tools, for example, Terraform and Ansible.
Hands on experience in administering high availability and high performance environments, as well as managing large-scale deployments of traffic-heavy applications.
A strong ability to design and execute cutting edge System Testing strategies (smoke tests, performance/load tests, regression tests, capacity tests).
Excellent understanding of Scalability processes and techniques.
Proven ability to work remotely with teams of various sizes in same/different timezones, from anywhere and still remain highly motivated, productive, and organized.
Excellent English including verbal, written, and presentation. Great email and Instant Messaging (eg. Slack) proficiency.
What's on Offer
Attractive compensation
Global role Work life balance Hybrid working model
