Cloud Infrastructure Automation Architect
Information Technology company
Information Technology company
Atlanta, GA 30326
W-2 and C2C availablePart-TimeContractContract to PermanentPermanent Position1196 views
Atlanta, GA 30326
Part-TimeContractContract to PermanentPermanent Position
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Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate the definition and refinement of cloud infrastructure automation strategy, architecture and standards. This should include defining how should the organization coordinates automated tasks across different technology domains, to:
    • Reduce time for cloud infrastructure service provisioning
    • Raise user satisfaction with self-service functions
    • Improve service uptime due to automation of manual, error-prone, changes
    • Minimize handoffs between different teams which otherwise would be manual
    • Maximize developer and app-owner flexibility in consuming cloud services
    • Maximize re-use and maintainability of automation assets
  • Coordinate the identification of automation opportunities, define approaches and solution architectures
  • Lead efforts to codify, deploy and operate prioritized automation
  • Champion automation efforts across teams
  • Automation Focus Areas:
    • Cloud Management
    • IT Process Automation
    • Server Life Cycle Automation
    • Continuous Configuration Automation
    • Application Release Automation – Continuous Integration and Deployment
    • Storage Automation
    • Network Automation
    • Hardware Provisioning Automation

Experience and Skills:

  • Proven track record of working in a strategic advisory role to senior IT and business leaders
  • Experience in defining IT strategy, standards, and architecture – particularly with automation, public cloud services and IT infrastructure
  • Background in architecting and designing complex customer solutions in a rapidly evolving technology domain
  • 4+ years of experience as a solutions architect, enterprise architect, or in an architect consulting delivery role with a solution sales mentality
  • 2+ years focused on cloud environments and their supporting infrastructures
  • Demonstrated ability to work with distributed cross-functional teams to achieve success on behalf of customers
  • Automation and integration technologies
    • Tooling such as – Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible/Tower, Puppet/Chef, vRA/vRO, other orchestrators, configuration management frameworks, etc.
    • Development languages – JavaScript, Python, Bash, Java, etc.
    • API development, JSON, micro-service architecture, API Gateways, SOA frameworks, ESBs, ETL pipe-lines, etc
  • IT infrastructure
    • AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware vRealize Suite
    • Software defined networking, storage systems architecture, virtualization, containers, serverless technologies, big-data and ML platforms
    • Familiarity with security fundamentals at the infrastructure, including cloud and hypervisor, and operating system level
Skills
Skill Proficiency Years Experience Percent Used
AWS
Any100%
Puppet
Any100%
Ansible
Any75%
Enterprise Architecture
Any75%
OpenShift
Any75%
Solutions Architecture
Any75%
System Architecture
Any75%
BaSH
Any25%
Cloud Infrastructure
Any25%
Continuous Integration
Any25%
ETL
Any25%
Hyper-V
Any25%
Java
Any25%
JavaScript
Any25%
Jenkins
Any25%
MS Azure
Any25%
OpenStack
Any25%
Provisioning
Any25%
Public Cloud
Any25%
Python
Any25%
SOA
Any25%
Virtualization
Any25%
VMWare
Any25%