Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities:

1. Cloud Infrastructure Management: Oversee the deployment, scaling, and management of cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Ensure optimal configuration, security, and cost-effectiveness.
2. Application Deployment and Maintenance: Responsible for deploying and maintaining web applications, particularly those built on Django and the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js). This includes setting up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting.
3. Automation and Optimization: Develop scripts and automation tools to streamline operations. Continuously seek ways to improve system efficiency and reduce downtime.
4. Security Compliance: Ensure that all cloud deployments comply with relevant security standards and practices. Regularly conduct security audits and coordinate with security teams to address vulnerabilities.
5. Collaboration and Support: Work closely with development teams to understand their needs and provide technical support. Act as a liaison between developers, IT staff, and management to ensure smooth operation and implementation of cloud solutions.
6. Disaster Recovery and Backup: Implement and manage disaster recovery plans and backup strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
7. Performance Monitoring: Regularly monitor and report on the performance of cloud services and applications. Use data to make informed decisions about upgrades, scaling, and other changes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Strong background in deploying and maintaining Django-based and MERN stack web applications.
• Expertise in automation tools and scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of network architecture and security protocols.
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to system optimization.
• Good communication skills for effective collaboration with various teams.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure are highly desirable.
• Several years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, with a focus on cloud computing and web application deployment.

About the Role:

Our Ascend Platform team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure and observability for entire

Consumer Information Services (North America) division. We are seeking a Software Engineer

for our team to help us continuously improve how we build, monitor, secure and run our rapidly growing

cloud platform. Much of our software development focuses on building infrastructure and eliminating

work through automation. On this team, you will have opportunity to use your expertise in coding,

system design thinking and analytical skills to provide reliable cloud infrastructure and observability tools

for the rest of the product development teams.

What You’ll Do Here

• Build our platforms, systems and infrastructure using your solid expertise in coding.

• Work closely with product development teams, provide hands-on engagement to develop,

direct and implement reliable, secured and cost-effective cloud solutions.

• Participate with a cross department-functional team to establish a cloud operational governance

framework.

• It often involves routine grunt work on service requests to assist other teams with

platform services.

What You'll Need To Succeed

Must Have Skills:

• Deep understanding of Linux, networking, cloud design patterns, API's, and security.

• Strong working experience with managing containers (Docker/LXC) in a production

environment using the container orchestration services like AWS EKS.

• At least 3+ years of experience working with AWS Infrastructure services with emphasis on

IAM, Network, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail and in general overall Security.

• Strong knowledge and implementation history of Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins or

any other similar tooling.

• Experience on at least one scripting language - Shell, Python etc.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with other public cloud platforms like Azure and GCP is a bonus.

• Knowledge and working experience in implementing one or more Observability platforms

like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk etc. to measure telemetry data like

logs, metrics and traces.

• Solid professional coding experience in at least one programming language, preferably Java.

• Experience with BigData platforms, like AWS EMR, Databricks, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc.

• Experience with open source technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark, Airflow etc

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, administer, monitor and troubleshoot complex enterprise network environment for communications and solution improvements within the Company's high-traffic, business-critical Internet production environment. 
• Develop and implement plans for infrastructure upgrades, modeling, analysis, and planning.
• Analyze, design, test, and evaluate network systems including local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (SD-WAN), Cloud, Data Centers, and other data communications systems. 
• Design, manage, and maintain office wired and wireless networks.
• Work with complex network and storage environments including SAN, clustering, load balancing, multi-site VPNs, network IDS, and firewalls.
• Monitor network performance and provide security measures, troubleshooting and maintenance, as needed. 
• Acquire, maintain and report on data related to network performance management, capacity planning and utilization trend analysis.
• Provide after-hours support for systems and applications.
• Collaborate with other functional IT areas to ensure that IT best practices, policies, and procedures are adhered to. Provide technical support for staff issues.
• 7+ years of experience in setup, configuration and maintenance of networking infrastructure including Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPN technologies, SD-WAN, and other WAN administration.

Experience

• 7+ years of experience with configuring and supporting IP networks.
• 5+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and multi-region Amazon Web Services (AWS) networking configurations
• 3+ years of experience in managing Meraki wireless networks and equipment in office environments.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of networks, ports, protocols, and infrastructure setup
• Enterprise-Level: Larger than 1,000 PCs and 500 Servers (multi-platform) are a definite plus
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc. in a large multi-site environment.
• In-depth knowledge of IT standards, concepts, best practices, and procedures - relies on knowledge, experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for purposes of communicating with team members as well as other departments.
• Ability to take initiative & manage multiple detailed tasks in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
• Organizational, and project management abilities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree: CIS Computer Information Systems; Information Technology, Computer Science or similar.
• CCNP Certification or similar
• Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPN technologies, SD-WAN, WAN administration
• Cisco SAN experience
• OS Platforms: Windows / Linux
• Hardware Platforms: Cisco UCS, Cisco Meraki, EMC storage

Overview

Apiwiz (Itorix Inc) is looking for software engineers to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. Every day, you’ll work with team members across disciplines developing products for Apiwiz (Itorix Inc). You’ll interact daily with our product managers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. We want to work with other engineers who bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities.

You will impact major features and new product decisions as part of our remarkably high performing, collaborative team of engineers who thrive on the business impact of their work. With strong team support and significant freedom and self direction, you will experience the wealth of interesting, challenging problems that only a high growth startup can provide.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and manage cloud compute and data storage infrastructure for multiple instances of AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
• Manage VPCs, security groups, and user access to our various public cloud systems and services.
• Develop processes and procedures for using cloud-based infrastructures, including, access key rotation, disaster recovery, and building new services.
• Help the business control costs by categorizing and tagging assets running in the cloud.
• Develop scripts and workflows to manage cloud computing systems
• Provide oversight on log aggregation and application performance monitoring surrounding our production environments.

What we’re looking for

• 2-3 years of experience in the provision, configuring, administrating, automating, monitoring, and supporting enterprise Cloud services
• Strong experience in designing, building, maintaining and securing AWS resources for high-availability and production level systems and services
• Familiar with Cloud concepts with practical hands-on experience on any Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load-balancers, S3, Elastic File system, VPC, Route53, and IAM.
• Providing 24/7 support for the application and Infrastructure support
• Prior experience using infrastructure as a code software tool like Terraform.
• Knowledge in software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tools like Ansible.
• Working knowledge of container technologies like Docker & Kubernetes cluster operations.
• Familiarity with software automation tools Git, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, SonarQube

Job Brief

QwikSkills is seeking an extremely knowledgeable Azure Cloud Engineer with a passion for problem-solving. You will make recommendations and help to create and maintain cloud services for developers that use this infrastructure for their software. You will need great collaboration and communication skills as you will spend a large part of your role interacting with developers and non-technical stakeholders.

Who We Are

QwikSkills is a one-stop platform to learn & practice hands-on cloud skills, cloud certification preparation and practice needs. We offer affordable world-class online certification practice tests and hands-on cloud labs for individuals as well as teams for AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, VMware etc.

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, your responsibilities include:-

• Developing and deploying Cloud solutions in collaboration with the cloud team.
• Managing and maintaining Cloud Labs portfolio.
• Creating, debugging, testing, and documenting Cloud Labs. 
• Identifying, analysing, and resolving Cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Generating curriculum for technical training.
• Working with the internal team to design, own, and deliver advanced training courses.
• Handling a group of 50-100 mentees/students and constantly guiding them through the course curriculum.

What We Are Looking for, in a Candidate

• Energy and enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced start-up culture
• Valuable degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline or equivalent
• Good understanding of the various Azure services and how they work together
• Superior programming knowledge, Python needed
• Good creativity and ideas for creating new Lab content that is engaging, relevant, and useful for the learners
• Good understanding of finding quality content for Labs Doc Creation
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills and logical thinking techniques, and have excellent attention to detail
• Excellent teamwork/collaboration skills
• Effective time management skills
• Proven work experience in a similar role

Fringe Benefits of Working with Us

• Assured winsome compensation
• An inclusive team of like-minded professionals
• An energetic and positive working space
• Collateral creative freedom
• Personal and professional development
• A major scope for career progression

About Us :

Markowate is a digital product development company building digital products on AI, Blockchain, Mobile, and Web3 digital. We work with tech startups as their technical partner and help them with their digital transformation.

Role Overview: As a Solution Architect, you will collaborate with stakeholders, including business executives, project managers, and software development teams, to understand the organization's objectives and requirements. You will then design scalable and efficient software solutions that align with these requirements. Your role involves assessing technologies, creating architecture designs, overseeing the development process, and ensuring the successful implementation of the solutions.

"Note: Should have 9+ years of relevant experience. Must have worked with Node.js technology."

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and analyze business and technical requirements, and translate them into scalable and feasible solution designs.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures, considering factors such as system integration, scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and platforms to determine their suitability for the organization's needs.
• Provide technical guidance and support to development teams throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure adherence to the architectural vision and best practices.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, such as executives and project managers, and provide recommendations on technology-related decisions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks by proactively identifying potential issues and developing contingency plans.
• Collaborate with quality assurance teams to define and implement testing strategies that validate the solution's functionality, performance, and security.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, including diagrams, technical specifications, and design guidelines, to facilitate efficient development and future enhancements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Should have 9+ years of experience and relevant experience as a solution architect.
• Must have experience in Node.Js and should have deep understanding in AI/ML and data pipelines.
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or a similar role, with a strong background in software development.
• In-depth knowledge of software architecture patterns, design principles, and development methodologies.
• Proficiency in various programming languages and frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think strategically and propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and understanding of their services and deployment models.
• ​Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.