Cloud Architect

Contract // Mississauga, ON. Please share resumes to Amarjeet.Kumar@akkodisgroup.com

Job Title: Cloud Architect
Location: Mississauga, ON
Contract

Job Description:

• As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will be responsible for supporting the product and delivery teams in deploying new applications, or modernizing existing legacy applications, to cloud-native technologies using event-driven and microservices architectures.
• Review technical designs (Architecture Design Document) and provide feedback to architects and product owners.
• Consult with architects and application development teams when selecting the appropriate cloud technologies for new/modernized applications.
• Evaluate the offerings of cloud service providers (Azure /GCP) and select services that best suit the organization’s needs.
• Provide technical leadership to complex and cross-functional projects to improve client’s technology environment.
• Provide architecture guidance for migrating applications, data, and infrastructure from on-premises environments to the cloud, considering factors like workload dependencies, data sensitivity, and business priorities.
• Hands-on expertise in FinOps on cost optimization, cost analysis, management tools, and optimization strategies? Provide leadership on the provisioning and deprovision of DEV, QA, and PROD environments as required to support project activities and timelines.
• Provide leadership on deployment of code to cloud environments using a CI/CD methodology.
• Create documentation for knowledge transfer to support teams.?
• Provide cloud expertise and consulting to development teams as part of proof of concepts.
• Provide stabilization support post the project go-live.

Skill Sets:
• Minimum 5 years of experience using Azure and GCP services including Docker, CI/CD Health, Terraform, GitHub, Airflow, Looper, and ADF.
• Working knowledge and experience with queuing systems like Kafka, ActiveMQ and IBM MQ.
• Working knowledge and experience with SQL and NO-SQL database technologies, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Cassandra, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Should have cloud certifications (Associate or Expert level) in Microsoft Azure or GCP.
• Working experience in cloud architecture with background in software architecture with a focus on FinOps and cost optimization.
• Working knowledge and experience with GitHub including branching and merging strategies.
• Working knowledge and experience of implementing instances, performance tuning, storage capacity management, and database migration.
• Working knowledge and experience with load balancing in Azure Cloud and GCP.
• Experience with cloud application monitoring and support.? Highly skilled in analysis and problem-solving experience.