In - Principal Cloud Architect - Bengaluru, India - CloudUno Consulting India Private Ltd

Description

As a Principal Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for planning, designing, and implementing enterprise cloud infrastructure for our clients at scale.

The Principal Cloud Architect will be responsible for understanding complex business IT needs and managing research, design, and solution development for ePlus customers.

• Directs architectural aspects of cloud brokering and governance across all aspects of IT and the business
• Continuously collaborates with engineers, the business, security, legal, and finance regarding cloud decisions and direction
• Designs, builds, facilitates, and directs multiple cloud initiatives, including leading the CCOE
• Drives spend accountability towards cloud consumers; create forecasts, monitor costs and pursue optimization opportunities.
• Establish a trusted advisor relationship with clients. Gain an appropriate understanding of the client needs while also uncovering additional opportunities.
• Design the ideal technical architecture solutions for the client. When appropriate, create bill of materials, supporting business case materials, designs, and supporting documentation as needed for any services to be delivered. Proven ability to mitigate both design and implementation risks.
• Participate in the planning, designing, and building of new service offerings including onpremises infrastructure, network security, business continuity, disaster recovery, and public/private/hybrid cloud solutions.
• Strive to maintain expert level knowledge in all technology offerings while specializing and maintaining certifications in those areas identified as critical for the role's specialization (GCP). The role will also be responsible to maintain an expert level of knowledge on competitor offerings to best communicate technical differentiation. Demonstrate a proactive nature to maintain technical competence. Complete training, education and certification as assigned.
• Perform exceptionally and to completion when delivering on billable engagements including onpremises infrastructure implementations, cloud migrations and expansions, managed services, ticket resolutions, disaster recovery implementations, security implementations, assessments, solution designs and other services as required.
• Be a thought leader by staying abreast of technology and business trends through interactions and professional networking with other top thought leaders. Strategically advance offerings and provide insights to clients to assist them progress the growth of their business via the identification of their ideal IT solution stack.
• Assist in the creation and delivery of professional presentation materials.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills and experience required. Must be able to adjust style to match the audience whether internal, client technical or client executive. Proven experience articulating technical viewpoints to diverse audiences, including technical and business decision makers. High EQ sought.
• Maximize billable time.
• Highly motivated and selfmanaged individual that can balance multiple projects, support meetings, achieve superior results.
• Travel to/from clients, corporate events and training as needed.
• Continuing education of relevant certifications that would benefit the Lead Technical Architect role
• Be available to meet customer IT needs and serve the Customer to ePlus' standards

• Handle confidential matters and information professionally
• Conduct business in a professional, competent and ethical manner
• Adhere to corporate policies and procedures

• Excellent customer service skills, both inperson and over the phone
• Excellent presentation, communication, and documentation skills
• Strong business understanding including costing, P&L, and pricing strategies
• Ability to think on your feet and come up with solutions quickly
• Must be fully knowledgeable and able to design and plan, implement, and support IT solutions using three or more of the following technologies:
• Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Containers and Container Management Platforms

• Micro Segmentation, IAM, Firewalls
• Cloud Connectivity
• Cloud Continuity and DR
• Application Migration
• Application Modernization

• 15+ years of handson experience in IT
• At least 10 years of experience working as a cloud engineer
• Indepth knowledge of GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Knowledge of Datacenter Connectivity and Hybrid Cloud
• Troubleshooting skills
• Deep understanding of IP networks in datacenters and across wide area networks
• Experience working with Security Devices (FW,VPN), Load Balancers (F5)
• Experience building HLD & LLD documents in your area of expertise
• Experience specific to GCP, AWS or Microsoft Azure Platform a must
• High level of comfort performing white boarding sessions and PowerPoint presentations
• Deep understanding of data center inf