Cloud Solutions Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect / Technical Lead

5500 N. Sam Houston Parkway W Houston TX USA 77086

Job description:

This is a Tech Lead level role responsible for helping with technical direction. This individual must be able to define best practices for complex solutions and develop migration of existing on-premise applications to cloud native architectures. This individual must also have strong consultative and communication skills.

Candidate should have deep experience on projects with complex designs / architectures and interfaces especially with azure cloud Azure cloud native, services, docker/containers, scalability in every aspect of the system, performance optimization, scalability, problem solving etc.

Qualifications:

• 12-20 years working in software development on a variety of projects

• Strong experience in Cloud methodologies

• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills

Experience:

• Significant experience in design and development roles

• Strong background in Azure DevOps including: CI/CD pipeline architecture/creation, working with ADO/Terraform, best deployment practices, and microservices.Significant experience with transformations from traditional operational methodologies to Cloud environments

• Strong hands-on experience with modern application architecture skills and designing solutions in and migrations to cloud-native environment including containers, Azure services, microservices, Kubernetes etc.

• Experience with Agile development practices

• Strong hands-on C#/.Net/.Net core software development background in an enterprise environment

• Previous experience creating proof of concepts from scratch based on requirements/application infrastructure to propose, create, and implement solutions

• Strong troubleshooting/problem-solving ability and strong Application performance insights/skills

• Experience in working/leading onsite/offsite team, and some task planning activities.

• Experience and practical use of Agile/Scrum practices and tools. Use of ADO

• Strong API experience (defining API specifications, creating APIs, and integrating APIs into 3rd party applications)

• Strong background in SQL Server environment

• Good dev experience and understanding of front-end technology and development like Angular

• Misc skills required: Entity-Framework, Dapper, performance optimization, heavy Windows / Microsoft / Azure Cloud environment, Cloud networking concepts / troubleshooting, hands-on development and troubleshooting skills

• Background in Technical Design/Lead/Software Architect work