Cloud platform architect - Hyderabad @ Ness

Description of activities:

Design build Azure Infrastructure as Service and Azure DevOps Administration and Configuration management.
Design, Provision and Manage Version Control, GIT,
Develop Pipeline and other DevOPS Automation Terraform,
Develop and Manage Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Design, develop, deploy and manage high availability clusters using Azure Kubernetes and Docker Swarms
Manage deployment automation using Packer, terraform to automate system operations
Design/provision and manage Azure PaaS services like Azure SQL server, Data warehouses, HDInsight clusters, Cosomos DB, Data lake, Databricks.
Manage Azure backups and Recovery Vault and migrate on premise to Windows Azure in DR on cloud.
Analyze Design, Code, Test, implement and support as per quality standards using methodologies.
Support full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that includes analyzing, designing, coding, testing, implementation production support as per quality standards using methodologies.
Implement microservices, application development, and migration using Azure services such as Azure DevOps, Kubernetes Service (AKS), Container Registry, Cosmos DB, and Grafana, Azure pipelines, Monitor, RBAC, AWS Kubernetes EKS and Kubernetes API to run workloads on EKS Clusters.

Qualifications
This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including Education: BS/BA or MS or equivalent experience is required.
5 8 years of Systems Engineering experience or experience in a related field (leading technical team or technical solutions)
Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
Expertise in the Azure, AWS and/or other 3rd party provided cloud and integration with on-premise and cloud-to-cloud integrations
A deep understanding of Java, JEE Application Servers and Technologies, networks and the underlying technologies used to build them
Fluency in architecture and design across all systems
Knowledge in at least one area of technical architecture
Expertise and fluence in operations of application infrastructure and middleware technology stack components including Oracle WebLogic, Tomcat
Experience in Cloud Engineering including Azure or third party cloud
Experience in SysOps including IaaS, PaaS or SaaS services
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Knowledge of end-to-end agile software development using technologies including Github, Gitlab, Azure DevOps, REST APIs, or Docker
Ability to obtain a security clearance BA or BS degree
Strategic thinking and passion for business strategy and business processes
Experience in risk and risk control compliance
Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building. Personal Qualities:
Builds Relationships Fosters Teamwork: Establish and maintain positive working relationships. Work collaboratively with others to achieve project goals.
Thinks Internationally: Appreciate and respect different cultures, is able to work flexibly and virtually across time-zones and adopt different styles.
Communicates Effectively: Speaks, listens and writes in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
Leads: Positively influences others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
Plans: Determine strategies, set goals, creates, and implements action plans, and evaluates the process and results.
Manages Risk: Assesses and quantifies feature risk, takes appropriate action to mitigate negative risks. When jeopardies arise, facilitates resolution or workarounds to minimize impact to project schedule.
Makes Decisions: Assesses situations to determine the importance, urgency and risk, and makes clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
Innovates: Seek opportunities to improve operations of the team.
Tolerates Ambiguity: High threshold for undefined and immature process. Flexibility to drive results regardless of systemic issues.