Cloud Solution Architect

Position: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Auburn Hills. MI (Remote)

Contract: 12 months contract

Job Description:

The Cloud Solution Architect will be responsible for architecting and implementing Cloud infrastructure and foundation elements Automations to enable standardized hosting of applications in cloud. The Cloud Solution Architect will collaborate with various application areas, Global Design, Network, Security and other teams to drive technical decisions and deliver solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Provision Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Foundation in Azure to meet application demands.
• Provide solution architecture and support issue resolution for cloud infrastructure delivery by working closely with application and teams.
• Build Cloud Foundation to establish necessary building blocks for delivering infrastructure.
• Cloud user management, security, capacity, monitoring and configuring application development tools.
• Architect & automate templates for deploying IaaS, PaaS solutions by using Infrastructure as a code and Configuration as a code.
• Standardize offerings to achieve cost optimizations and efficiencies.
• Implement dashboards for managing cloud performance and budgetary alerts.
• Analyze existing on premise application landscapes to implement refactoring or rebuilding major application initiatives in Cloud.
• Create integrations for Cloud and On-premise Applications and play a major role in redesigning applications with integrations with mainframe.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other related degree.
• 5 years of experience working in IT.
• Over 2 years of proven hands on experience working with cloud based technologies such as AWS and Azure.
• Strong understanding for utilizing native cloud technologies for user management, security, costing and tools.
• Broad in-depth understanding for onboarding applications onto IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, deployment automation, DevOps, scripting, containers and Cloud Governance
• Prior application/infrastructure architecture and cloud certifications are a huge plus.
• Strong communication, documentation, managing delivery timelines, handle multiple projects and multitasking skills are a must.