Cloud Architect Platform

Effectual Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. They partner with Effectual's Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an customer and delivery team experiences. Effectual Cloud Architects are "Brand Ambassadors" and are expected to demonstrate Effectual's experience through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers. You will report to the Application Modernization Professional Services Director.

A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Cloud Architects

• Design and document a system in AWS to meet customer requirements.
• Meet with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress.
• Partner with an Engagement Manager to craft a customer communication.
• Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach.
• Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Effectual's expertise to a potential customer.

Responsibilities

• Manage existing Kubernetes clusters deployed.
• Manage deployment of cloud services, like databases, message brokers like Kafka, caching components, other group resources, and custom applications
• Manage Kubernetes and cloud service updates
• Maintain local development environment and cloud deployment scripts
• Manage cloud monitoring & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting
• Manage system backup and failure recovery
• Deploy data analysis tools and visual dashboards to assess system health
• Project technical leader working to achieve customer outcomes by:
• Drive the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients.
• Build solutions in AWS (e.g., Landing Zones, container platforms, application hosting environments, data storage solutions, etc.) using various AWS services like Control Tower, EKS/ECS, S3, Transit Gateway, EC2, etc.
• Conduct cost-benefit and risk-reward analyses
• Design solutions, development and deployment plans, and high-level solution validation processes for execution by delivery teams
• Be accountable for the overall technical success of client projects
• Work with technology management to refine project management processes to improve technical delivery efficacy.
• Assisting in prioritizing and sequencing infrastructure projects, supporting project work breakdown activities, removing roadblocks, and collaboratively resolving disagreements related to solution design.
• Foster learning and collaboration by:
• Be a mentor to team members around leading practices
• Educate clients on solution rationale and leading practices
• Build consensus amongst all technical partners
• Support rigorous project governance and execution through:
• Meet with team members daily to review progress.
• Challenge team members on technical solution approaches and holding them accountable for implementation success.
• Submit time on assigned projects, daily.
• Supporting project delivery team members by:
• Always operate with transparency
• Respond to requests from team members for information
• Communicate working preferences and …