Technical Architect - Cloud

• Location: Doha, Qatar
• Category: Corporate & Commercial
• Job Id: 203983
• Closing Date: 15-05-2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Provides innovative and modern architectural approach, in alignment with Organizations technical vision, goals and standards.
• Activities involve creating architecture blueprints, defining deployment architecture, capacity planning, leveraging native cloud services and capabilities to meet business requirements.
• Ensure all architecture decisions are aligned towards meeting the technical and business objectives of the product/application.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with product teams to understand functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Review and sign off of cloud deployment architecture and ensure the availability SLA of the application is honored.
• Excellent understanding of FinOps practices and constantly improve on possible cost optimization strategies for the application and at enterprise level.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between engineering and product teams to ensure that solutions meet both technical and business needs.
• Participate in infrastructure design and architecture reviews to ensure that proposed solutions meet the requirements and align with the overall architecture.
• Ensure the right cloud services are leveraged to address the business requirements.
• Guide the development team on operational & observability aspects (Logging, monitoring, alerts etc).
• Collaborate with Solution Architects from other LOBs to identify synergies in solutions and to adopt and standardize common tools and technologies across organization.
• Excellent understanding of high availability, scalability and resilience options available in different cloud platforms.
• Plan and execute proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of idea, complex solutions and cutting-edge technologies.
• Responsible for ensuring that all application Non-Functional Requirements are met, ensure thorough testing of NFRs and ensure corrective / preventive actions.
• Ensure that recommended architecture is manageable, maintainable, scalable, resilient, sustainable, cost-effective whilst addressing business requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis of reported critical incidents in operational production systems and recommend/ ensure implementation of effective preventive actions to avoid repetition.
• Partner with DevOps team to ensure seamless deployment and maintenance of the application.
• Find opportunities to innovate using technology advancements, to the benefit of the product.
• Share best practices and knowledge with engineers to promote continuous learning and improvement.
• Define and implement technical standards, best practices, and patterns for cloud-native development.
• Own all architecture decisions of the application and ensure these are documented as part of Architecture Decision Records.
• Recommend the right choice of tools & libraries in alignment with the organization standards.
• Ensure all architecture decisions are in alignment with corporate security standards and guidelines.
• Identify technical debts and define technology roadmap for the product/application.
• Articulate the benefits of architecture modernization to stakeholders and ensure adoption of the latest and proven engineering practices & technology trends.
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of Kubernetes-based azure infrastructure.
• Accountable for setting up of environments and system components to achieve High availability (99.99% uptime).
• Implement monitoring and alerting tools and solutions that provide visibility into the application and infrastructure performance.
• Ensure infrastructure is provisioned in a resilient and cost-effective manner.
• Proactively identify scaling issues and collaborate with development and infrastructure team.
• Work with architects and software engineers to migrate the existing platform to Cloud and help resolve issues.
• Ensure SLA and service quality is adhered to.
• Provide regular updates and status reports to the management.

ABOUT YOU - Skills

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in designing infrastructure solutions.
• Proven expertise in operating large operationally critical applications in public/private cloud-based platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in designing, executing, and supporting highly available Azure cloud solutions.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure and network concepts of DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, NSGs.
• Expertise in security best practices, performance, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Experience in provisioning API Manager, AppService’s, Kubernetes, ESB, and databases in the cloud.
• Experience in setting up alerts, monitoring dashboards, and working with tools like ELK, Grafana Azure AppInsights.
• Azure Architect certification mandatory.
• Development experience in Java will be an added advantage.
• Experience in migration of large monolith architecture to cloud-ready architecture.
• Expertise in area(s) of Solution Architecture, Enterprise Integration patterns, and software design and development.
• Experience DevOps, DevSecOps methodologies, and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Expertise in Large and Critical System Product Production Support and Problem Solving.
• Experience with cloud computing technologies, such as Azure, or GCP.
• Must have good analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Experience in operational excellence – SRE, DevOps Maturity, and FSO (Full stack observability).
• Ability to foster teamwork among team members.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills.
• Good understanding of SQL & NoSQL databases in the cloud and should be able to recommend the right DB for diverse types of requirements.