Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect (Local to IL)
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Sonoma Consulting Inc. Lincolnshire · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $146,057–$210,000 across the United States.
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What you'll do
- Set long-term cloud architecture direction and help teams understand the technical choices involved
- Review proposed designs against technical needs, then record findings and risks
- Promote high availability, performance and disaster recovery practices across cloud architectures
- Help establish support arrangements for newly hosted applications and coach customer and partner teams
- Guide project teams toward PaaS and SaaS options while meeting information security requirements
What you bring
- You bring at least fifteen years of infrastructure experience
- A bachelor's degree is required; a master's degree is preferred
- You have designed and deployed solutions on Azure or AWS
- You bring deep cloud, virtualization and infrastructure knowledge, including on-premise integration
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced cloud architect who can advise teams, assess implementation risks and manage project timelines. It is onsite in Lincolnshire and requires you to be local to Illinois.
From the employer
Sonoma Consulting is one of the fastest growing national IT Consulting and Executive Search company in the United States, which was founded in 2011 by Mark McGee, the President and CEO. Sonoma Consulting has two business divisions - IT Consulting Services & Executive Search to serve its 150 national clients which range from entrepreneurial start-ups to Global Fortune 500.
Senior Director – Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Role Responsibilities:
- · Lead company’s long- term strategic technology direction and education regarding cloud architectures.
- · Evaluate designs and architectures and document results/risks based on required technical parameters.
- · Evangelize best practices in Cloud Architecture e.g. HA, Performance, DR
- · Keep abreast of a broad range of technologies that may deliver value to our business
- · Help organize support models for new applications hosted.
- · Coaching Customer and Partner teams on Cloud best practices
- · Support project teams in taking advantage of PaaS and SaaS offerings while still meeting information security requirements.
Technical Skills:
- · Deep and broad knowledge of cloud service provider capabilities and integration with on premise infrastructure/systems.
- · Deep knowledge of automation for moving workloads on and off premise, cloud based file and sync capabilities, cloud content security and protection, cloud based archiving, cloud based application workflow and content management
- · Deep and broad knowledge of enterprise level storage area networks, data center storage, replication services & supporting technologies as they relate to cloud services technologies.
- · Deep and broad experience/Knowledge of Cloud providers (Private, Hybrid, and Public) specifically including Azure and AWS.
- · Deep technical knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V)
- · In depth knowledge Azure and/or AWS IaaS Services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, S3, SQL database, BLOB Storage, Active Directory, etc)
- · Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows)
- · Understanding OpenStack deployments and integration
- · Knowledge of cloud technology and distributed computing
- · Strong technical knowledge of cloud technologies & IT concepts (VMWare, HyperV, Cisco, Microsoft, EMC, AWS, etc)
- · Previous experience designing and deploying solutions on Azure and/or AWS
- · Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell).
- · Configuration management using CloudFormation, Chef & Puppet.
- · Client/Server and Multi-tier Architectures
- · Communications and Networking Architectures
- · Messaging Architectures
- · Experience with replication and data protection architecture and solutions
- · Experience with SAN & NAS technologies
Qualifications:
· Preferred Years of Infrastructure Experience: 15+
· Education/Certificate: B.S. Required/M.S. Preferred
Competencies:
- · Proven writing and communication skills
- · Proven consulting skills
- · Proven project skills
- · Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
- · Ability to manage project timelines and outcomes for projects with considerable implementation risk
- · Strong technical aptitude
- · Ability to multitask and prioritize activities
- · Strong interpersonal skills
Titles: Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Architect, Cloud AWS Architect, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Senior Cloud Consultant
Skills : AWS, Amazon Web Services, Azure, VMware, Python, Chef, Script
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