Cloud Solution Architect

Role Name: Cloud Solution Architect

Exp:       10 to 15 Years

Additional Roles & Responsibilities:

•             Understands business objectives, current/Target State Architecture, Future Vision and migration path for Airtel cloud product/Solutions

•             Translate business requirements/challenges to technical solutions using enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies.

•             Participate in end to end RFP/Bidding process along with sales and other technical teams

•             Prepare technical solutions in response to RFP/Tender documents by understanding the requirements and qualifications given in the RFP.

•             Present technical solutions to clients C-level executives and technical teams

•             Device costing estimates for various services offered including resource efforts required for the delivery of proposed solutions

•             Requirement Gathering, Architecture/Design (HLD), Executing Proof Of concept (POC), Integration Architecture and creation of Bill of Material/Pricing

•             Demonstrate deep subject matter Expertise of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability, Security, DevOps, Management, Migration etc)

•             Collaborate with Business teams, Enterprise Cloud Architecture team of Airtel and Product teams to facilitate and deliver the right solution to the Enterprise customer.

•             Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, and Security teams to ensure well-architected cloud solutions.

•             Coach and mentor other team members, including mentoring on cloud standards, frameworks, etc., as well as will be a vital enabler of the Team’s cultural change for cloud adoption.

•             Lead the definition and development of cloud reference architecture and management systems

Additional Skills:

•             Experience in designing & delivering solutions involving hyperscale Cloud Service providers – AWS, Azure, OCI and Google on Cloud adoption/transformation projects

•             Experience with developing solutions using Private cloud solutions like Openstack/Nutanix will be an added advantage

•             Delivered few numbers of successful Cloud transformation projects end to end and dive-deep into the technicalities of the solution.

•             Good understanding of private cloud solutions is a must (Nutanix/Redhat/Oracle PCA)

•             Delivered couple of Cloud Consulting engagement where the candidate has conducted stakeholder interviews & Cloud maturity assessments to evaluate the capabilities for Technology Architecture, Automation & Hybrid/Public Cloud Operating Model.

•             Developed Consulting work products like Cloud maturity assessments, Target State Blueprints and Transformation Roadmaps.

•             Defined and delivered Cloud Landing zone design involving Account/Organization /Subscription structure, IAM, factoring in Functional & Non-Functional Requirements

•             Expertise in Cloud Native Services (IaaS/PaaS) such as Compute, Virtual Networking, Storage 9Block/Object/File), NLB/ALB, Cloud Alerting, Cloud Notification, DBaaS (SQL/Postgres/NoSql etc.), CDN, etc.

•             Kubernetes and associated technologies (Autoscaling, Ingress design, Service Mesh etc). Should have experience with Cloud native Kubernetes platforms such as AKS, EKS, GKE etc.

•             Infrastructure as Code (IAC), DevOps & Cloud Automation Technologies & practices leveraging Cloud native tools, CI/CD, etc.

•             Knowledge of Languages & Scripting frameworks leveraged for Cloud automation & integration such as Python, javascript, Ansible etc

•             Industry Standard Cloud Architect Certifications on Azure/GCP/Redhat OpenStack is a must

•             Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

•             Good negotiation skills with logical thinking abilities

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