Cloud Application Lead (Remote)

About Bespin Global

Bespin Global is a recognized and certified PS and Managed Service Provider (MSP) for AWS, Azure, and GCP. We are recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services for 7 consecutive years, which we believe validates our role as world class cloud experts and advisors. In 2023, we have won the AWS MSP Partner of the Year and Google Expansion Partner of the Year. We have more than 3,000 customers worldwide and we help them gain a competitive edge through the cloud.

Hundreds of cloud experts working at Bespin Global are our most proud and valued assets. Our experts with experience and knowledge in the cloud work tirelessly to advise, migrate, operate, and manage our customer's cloud journey.

Who we're looking for -

We are looking for experienced cloud experts with a proven track record of delivering results in professional services for AWS/GCP cloud who will help customers build and modernize their web applications on cloud.

Being an experienced technologist with technical depth and breadth, aided with strong interpersonal skills, you will work directly with customers as part of a professional services delivery team helping to enable innovation through continuous delivery across technology stacks and creating robust solution designs that align with customer's business goals.

Using your insight and experience, you will design architectures, develop cloud native web applications and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, security, and automation. In addition, you will work with mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, security, and much more!

The qualified Cloud Application Lead will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about businesses, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate & mobilize resources, and deliver results.

The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is a critical component to being successful in this role.

We seek team members who are self-motivated, driven, collaborative, passionate about Application modernization workloads and want to have a direct positive impact on our customer's business.

Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence are also needed to help develop a team reporting to you.

What you'll be doing:

- Lead the technical design and architecture of the sports analytics application for online sport analytics web platform.

- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient technical solutions.

- Provide technical leadership to the development team, guiding them in the implementation of cloud-native web applications on GCP.

- Ensure adherence to best practices in software development, security, and data privacy throughout the project lifecycle.

- Drive the adoption of emerging technologies and industry best practices to enhance the performance, reliability, and user experience of the sports analytics application.

- Work closely with data scientists to integrate advanced analytics and machine learning components into the application for enhanced insights.

- Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to establish robust deployment pipelines, monitoring solutions, and cloud infrastructure on GCP.

- Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

- Communicate effectively with internal teams and stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, milestones, and potential risks to project managers.

- Conduct deep-dive "hands-on" education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers interested in application design and to ensure engineers are up to date with understanding of the technology and design of the web applications.

Requirements:

- 5+ years design & implementation experience with cloud native web applications built preferably on Google Cloud.

- 3+ years of experience in networking, infrastructure, or database architectures on Cloud technologies.

- In-depth understanding and professional experience with AWS services and infrastructure

- "Hands-on" experience with practices and services related to data engineering and application modernization workloads.

- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT management, and developers

- Excellent communication skills with an ability to right level conversations

- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly

Nice to have:

- 2+ years of experience in customer-facing software/technology or consulting role

- 2+ years of experience with the sports analytics domain specifically in the online sports analytics industry.

- 2+ years of experience architecting/developing large web applications built on GCP.

- Technical degree - Computer Science or related

- GCP Solution Architect Professional certification and/or other /GCP Cloud certifications

Other stuff:

- Excellent benefits package including Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, 401k with employer matching, and wellness program

- 100% work-from-home and great work life balance

- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. (e.g., US citizen or permanent resident)