What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect Manager position at defi AUTO, LLC?
About defi SOLUTIONS:
defi SOLUTIONS partners with captives, banks, credit unions, and finance companies of all types and sizes to allow lenders to focus and transform their operations. The company’s comprehensive suite of originations, servicing, and analytics solutions together with technology-enabled processing services creates a flexible, configurable, and scalable platform that addresses lenders and borrowers ever-evolving needs.
Position Purpose:
As a Cloud Architect within defi SOLUTIONS Platform Engineering Organization, you will drive the design and delivery of world-class cloud solutions and provide expertise on cloud infrastructure services. This includes taking a lead role in the cloud architecture and engineering practice. You will be challenged to find approaches that enable rapid adoption of new cloud services and drive transformation of business and IT processes.
The team operates lean and this is a great opportunity to bolster your existing skills and demonstrate a command and presence within the business by delivering value with everything you do.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design architectures with Microsoft Azure to meet our clients’ technical, security, and business needs
- Design, Build and Support DR solutions per Overall Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery requirements
- Research and Partner with Microsoft Solution Architects on the latest cloud-specific technologies and integrate them into the architecture design where appropriate to support the business
- Contributing to the solutions architecture roadmap, designs, procedures, standards, and deployment mechanisms by collaborating with Application and Security Architects
- Works closely with the business’ large client initiatives to provide solutions in Azure
- Participate in incident troubleshooting with root cause analysis and recommend product enhancements or other appropriate actions to improve reliability, functionality and visibility
- Assist in internal Service Delivery Framework and development
- Provides Automation Guidance – Powershell, CLI
- Recommend and Design Monitoring and Alerting solutions for the cloud environment
- Develop, maintain, and update a library of technical documentation
- Evaluate 3rd party solutions in conjunction with Application and Security Architects
- Provide continual knowledge transfer to the team
- Azure Advisor Cost/performance recommendations reviewed and implemented
- Provide technical leadership and be a cloud evangelist
- Mentor colleagues and drive forward team standards
- Provide domain-specific expertise to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities
- Promote new ideas, strategies, technologies and concepts, to improve service quality and reduce costs
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Expert level Cloud Services knowledge(ie. VM scalesets, app services, redis, azure data factory, sql mi) and troubleshooting experience
- Relevant Azure Certifications AAZ-104, AZ304 or AZ305 (Solution Architect) or equivalent work experience with Azure
- Proven experience with monitoring, network diagnostics and network analytics tools
- The ability to effectively communicate to customers and coworkers
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to learn new information quickly
- Self-starter with an in-depth hands-on work experience with large-scale implementations of cloud technologies
- Strong oral and communication skills and experience interacting with senior leaders within an organization
- Ability to work independently, without much supervision, and ensure project goals are met
- Experience solving problems and building solutions
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years of overall experience, to include a minimum of 5 years of enterprise, full-life cycle in Architecture in the professional IT/Software Development services industry.
- Understand how to automate builds for developer environments from development through production within a Continuous Delivery model.
- Direct, hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and release management tools
- Knowledge of SQL, and non-relational (NoSQL) databases
- Knowledge of networking, firewalls, load balancers etc
- Familiarity with Docker containers, working experience a plus
- Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell / CLI) for deployment and management on Azure
Travel:
[10% OF TRAVEL]
defi SOLUTIONS is an Equal Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.