Job Details
Location:
City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Posted:
Jul 23, 2020
Job Description
Rackspace is looking to hire a passionate, creative and curious Cloud Architect with the ability to lead customer projects and engagements.
This role will help drive the delivery of a variety of projects for customers, including new development and the modernization of existing cloud infrastructure and applications. You will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our customers.
What you’ll be doing
- Work with customer to align business goals to technology solutions in a variety of projects
- Designing well-architected, documented and tested software and infrastructure solutions that meet customer requirements
- Architecting solutions for migrations, containerization, and transformation tools and projects to customers and internal teams
- Writing infrastructure as code
- Serving as a technical mentor to other team members
- Serving as escalation for environment troubleshooting
- Identifying and addressing bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks
- Participating in an agile delivery team, helping to ensure the technical quality of the features delivered across the team, including documentation, testing strategies, and code review
- Leading and presenting technology discussions to client
- Helping to determine the technical feasibility of solutions for business requirements
- Meeting customer SLAs and managing communication in case of issues
- Configuring and maintaining backup, monitoring, and alerting systems for multiple clients
- Interacting with teams and customers in different time zones for ensuring 24×7 support
- Developing advanced Linux/Windows deployment and management automation (Bash/PowerShell/Python/Chef/Ansible)
- Remaining up-to-date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects
To be successful, we're looking for the following:
- Experience leading technical projects including designing solutions based on business and technical requirements through implementation
- Able to comfortably design, architect, and oversee implementation of technical solutions and projects
- Proficient in networking and security
- Advanced expertise of common cloud services (Databases, Containers, Compute, Storage, Serverless etc.)
- Service architecture and advanced container experience in Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD and code management tools (Git, TFS, Jenkins etc.)
- Extensive experience with Terraform
- In-depth knowledgeable of configuration management frameworks such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible
- Experience leading and mentoring engineers
- Experience in performance management of database engines (MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
- Some experience with any of the following C#, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go
- 2 to 3 industry-recognized certifications (AWS, Kubernetes, Chef, Microsoft, etc)
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and their impact on design considerations (HIPAA, PCI, ITAR, etc)
- Ability to be on-call after hours when required
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