Cloud Architect

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Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Duration: 10+ months

Location: 2 Research Drive, Greenville, SC 29607

Pay rate: $64/hr - $88/hr on W2

Hybrid: 2 days/week

About the client:

A multinational company that primarily focuses on the design, manufacturing, and marketing of premium automobiles and motorcycles. Known for producing high-quality, performance-oriented vehicles, it is one of the leading brands in the global automotive industry.

I. Position Purpose/Scope: What are the key objectives of the position?

Develops leading edge cloud architectures and technologies to support the Group and local DEVOPS Hubs Americas' product teams. Identifies emerging technologies with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) in order to build cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions with availability reaching 99.999% uptime. All solutions will be properly secure and reliably engineered. Provides monitoring and logging of applications/infrastructure.

II. Position Responsibilities/Accountabilities: List the major duties/accountabilities to achieve the positions key objectives.

• Develop and maintain Cloud architectures for product teams
• Create and develop Kubernetes architecture and tools for product teams and as platforms
• Evaluate and implement Kubernetes managed solutions from vendors (EKS, AKS)
• Develop cluster creation/maintenance scripts (Infrastructure as code, Terraform, etc..)
• Utilize version control of the Infrastructure as Code with strong understanding of branching and merging strategies (Bitbucket)
• Deploy CI/CD pipeline utilization (Jenkins) for the creation of clusters
• Enforce user management and role management (AWS, Azure) following Group standards
• Perform and create cluster monitoring and infrastructure health reporting (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Provide operational expertise to maintain Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure (technical and budgetary)
• Develop network controls (ingress/egress for internet/intranet access)
• Maintain cluster security (key management, Vault)
• Develop highly available, scalable clusters (scale out, scale up, multiple AZs)
• Support cloud-based databases (CockRoach) and message queue solutions (RabbitMQ)
• Develop logging/monitoring solutions for applications and infrastructure (Splunk)
• As a knowledge expert, share information and vision via documentation and training of others
• Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture and approach
• Work on several development initiatives concurrently and provide subject matter expertise on implementations and product customization
• Define the visualization and realization of future technologies, which will support the complete process from development of concepts and vision to full production ready solutions, which can be integrated rapidly into the automotive environment
• Serve as internal consultant to developers and engineers as needed, providing assistance in all phases of product life-cycle development

III. Position Competencies:

A. Education:

• BA/BS Degree in Business, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred or the equivalent of 4 years professional IT related experience. MS degree (preferred).

B) Experience:

• 5+ years of technical experience in Information Technology to include 2+ years of experience delivering Cloud Architectures (including deployments and operations)

C. D) Licenses and/or Certifications:

• AWS/Azure cloud provider training/certifications (preferred)

E) Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• 3-5 years' experience: Cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc)
• 3-5 years' experience: Solution architect
• 3-5 years' experience: Operating systems administration and/or lead Developer in a microservice based product team
• 3-5 years' experience: Developer of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML, shell scripts)
• 1-3 years' experience: Database Administration; SAP Basis Administration;
• 3-5 years' experience: Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker registries
• 3-5 years' experience: At least one scripting language (Python, bash/korne shell, etc)
• 1-3 years' experience: Agile team processes and work environments
• 1-3 years' experience: Interface with REST Web Services and JSON/XML sufficient to support microservice developers

IV. Primary Work Location/Shift: (If > 1 location, indicate % of time spent at each location.)

• ITRC, Greenville, SC 95%
• Travel 5%

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