Sr. Cloud Software Architect
carbon60 · Full-time · Posted 1w ago
OpsGuru is a global engineering and consulting group. We are experts in the container ecosystem, data processing and analytics, and cloud-native technologies. Our team is formed by network, data, security, DevOps specialists and application developers. OpsGuru empowers customers with technology to solve their business problems and provide the tools to assure success in their digital transformation.
OpsGuru's value to our customers centers around our ability to provide deep technical guidance based on their business needs. We achieve this by assigning small, virtual teams of highly skilled individuals to each client. Within these teams, the Senior Cloud Software Architect is responsible for providing technical expertise and leadership to Cloud Software Engineers, while also maintaining a systems view that is able to reconcile technical decisions with broader project goals. Senior Cloud Software Architects work alongside our Principal Consultants and Engagement Managers to ensure our project deliverables meet stakeholders' needs while upholding OpsGuru's standards for quality and operational maturity.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Cloud Software Architect you will use your experiences to help customers plan, design, build, and implement modern cloud-based applications as part of a professional services delivery team.
Architects work to understand business and technical requirements, work with our customers to create backlogs of prioritized work, design application architectures and deployment processes that are secure and scalable, provide best practice guidance around release processes and architecture patterns, provide recommendations for optimizations (including user experience, performance, scalability, availability, and cost), and help customers with application modernization or greenfield development.
Senior Cloud Software Architects will generally be delivering projects with small focused teams in an agile delivery methodology. Some examples of projects include, but are not limited to:
● Application modernization projects to migrate applications to newer or updated technology stacks, languages, and frameworks.
● Transformation of applications to leverage modern infrastructure services such as containers or serverless.
● Application modernization to help move from monolithic applications to service oriented or microservice based architectures.
● Moving applications from an existing database engine (such as Oracle DB) to a new target data service (for example Postgres, NoSQL database, etc).
● Understanding requirements to transform existing applications, or create greenfield applications, using scalable event driven architectures with Cloud Native serverless solutions.
● Enhancing applications to optimize performance by leveraging tools such as content delivery networks, caching systems, modern file storage solutions, etc.
Requirements:
Core competencies (Mandatory):
Coding Skills
● 8+ years of experience as software engineer or software architect
● 2+ years experience acting as a technical lead on projects or teams
● Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript/ES6:
● NodeJS (experience with at least one of the following: Express, Socket.IO, NestJS)
● UI (experience with at least two of the following: ReactJS, Angular, Vue),
● Working experience the following:
○ Java (experience with at least one of the following frameworks: Spring, Play, Struts)
○ C# (experience with both .NET 4 and .NET Core, ASP.NET)
○ Python (experience with at least one of the following: DJango, Flask, Bottle)
○ PHP (experience with at least one of the following: Laravel, Cake, Symfony, Drupal)
● Experience with HTML/HTML5, CSS/SASS/LESS, SVG
● Deep understanding of secure coding practices
Experiences
● Extensive experience with relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MySql)
● Experience with at least one of NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch)
● Experience udingof web protocols, serializers, CDNs, DNS, web security controls and best practices
● Expirience designing and implementing unit and scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development
● Experience using Git source control systems connected to automation pipelines (CI/CD)
● Experience designing and deploying end to end applications ready for production release
● 3+ years experience using public cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
● Experience building and deploying containers solutions (i.e. K8S, OpenShift) and functions-as-a-service (i.e. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions)
● Experience writing documentation related to requirements, architectures, code, or tests cases
● Experience with agile software development
● Experience with applications leveraging message queues, service buses, and stream processors
Skills
● Strong consulting and skills
● Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills (English)
● Strong AIand LLM usage skills
● Ability to work collaboratively in teams with peers and with external customers and acting as a technical project lead
● Ability to lead discovery and design discussions with customers
● Ability to plan and lead large scale projects, including cutover and rollback events
● Skilled at working with quality engineering to troubleshoot defects, refactor code, and remediate defects
● Solid understanding of software release, iterative development, and DevOps best practices
Additional competencies (nice to have):
Technology
● Working knowledge of data structures, OOP, architectural and design patterns
● Exposure to broad range of frontend and backend technologies, languages and frameworks
● Knowledge of functional programming and experience with one of the functional languages (Erlang, Elixir, Closure, Haskell, F#, Rust, etc.)
● Experience working in a DevOps environment and supporting Site Relability Engineering (SRE) concepts
● Strong understanding operational related best practices such as observability and high availability
Experiences
● Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
● Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production ready software involving highly scalable distributed systems, hybrid-cloud or cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
● Experience designing and building B2B data collection or exchange solutions such as third party integrations, SaaS platforms, productized APIs, or IoT connected platforms
● Experience building cloud native, event-driven microservice architectures and APIs
What's in it for you:
Compensation & Perks
Flexibility & Time Off
Health & Wellness
Growth & Development
As an employer, OpsGuru, a Carbon60 Company, recognizes the importance of balancing our careers with other aspects of our lives, and our culture reflects this ethos - from flexible work hours to health and wellness incentives and having fun along the way. We look for people who thrive in an environment of accountability and at times ambiguity as we adapt and grow our business.
OpsGuru is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with all levels of ability. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We thank all applicants for their interest in this exciting opportunity.
Only candidates that meet the qualifications will be contacted for an interview.
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