Cloud Architect

Role: Cloud Architect

Location: Nova Scotia CA (Remote)

Type: Contract

Summary:
The Senior Platform Engineer will report into the Manager Application Systems Engineering and will be responsible for supporting the modernization and consolidation of our IT infrastructure to automate workloads and pursue nextgeneration innovation. The Senior Platform Engineer will leverage their experience and expertise to develop the strategy design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for cloudnative applications as well as largescale projects hosted in either AWS or Azure. The Senior Platform Engineer will collaborate with multiple teams in IT to improve our operations and the performance security and scalability of our cloud infrastructure.

Duties/Responsibilities what you will be doing (top five):
Work collaboratively with our engineering teams to identify and implement the most optimal cloudbased solutions for US Health care Client. Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions that meet our business requirements and align with our IT strategy.
Ensure application performance uptime and scale while maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design.
Guide and coach the more junior engineers on the team as they grow in their skills and gain experience within the Cloud Engineering space.
Provide technical leadership in the deployment and operational management of cloud solutions.
Design and maintain the Cloud provisioning templates required for building and managing our Cloud platforms while adhering to our US Health care Client Compliance and Performance standards and policies.
Design and maintain the CI/CD pipelines for building and managing our cloudnative applications while adhering to our US Health care Client Security Compliance and Performance standards and policies.
Design build and deploy Cloud applications including largescale data processing computationally intensive statistical modeling and advanced analytics.
Participate in all aspects of the SDLC for Cloud solutions including planning requirements development testing and quality assurance.
Troubleshoot incidents identify root causes fix and document problems and implement preventive measures
Educate teams on the implementation of new cloudbased initiatives providing associated training when necessary.
Demonstrate exceptional problemsolving skills with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
Develop and maintain supporting documentation for all automated processes.
Work closely with Prod and NonProd environment owners to develop and maintain a rolebased workflow that supports segregated duties.
Coordinate and lead training and information sharing meetings with the rest of the Cloud Engineering team.
Oversee and support Production deployments during major release activities for components owned by the Cloud Engineering team.
Serve as SME (subject matter expert) in several committees pertaining to Cloud Governance and Architecture.
Other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications what you need to perform the job
Education Certification And Licensure:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field or equivalent work experience.

Experience (Minimum Years Required):
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Cloud Engineering or DevOps role with knowledge of AWS Azure or Google Cloud platforms.
Demonstrated experience in leading large projects or small teams

Skill Requirements:
Strong leadership including ability to influence others work independently and exercise appropriate judgment in decision making
Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of business analysts developers data scientists and subject matter experts Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with management peers and the other departments within IT.
Respect for change management environmental integrity and process workflow within a relatively new and rapidly maturing organization.
Strong analytical and technical ability including strength in general issue troubleshooting
Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a wellarchitected framework
Ability to quickly learn US Health care Client specific processes topology tools often with limited documentation
Technical experience with the following: OS Level Administration (Linux Windows) IaC Provisioning Tools (Terraform ARM Ansible CloudFormation) Software development lifecycle principles Build Orchestration Tools (Jenkins Bamboo etc.)
Preferred experience with deployment Tools (CD/RO Ansible Azure DevOps etc.) and Source Control Management (GitHub SVN BitBucket etc.)
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash or JavaScript.
Experience with container technologies (Docker Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
Familiarity with DevOps principles and CI/CD tools like CloudBees/Jenkins GitLab or GitHub Actions.

Working Conditions And Additional Requirements (include special requirements e.g. lifting travel):
Must be able to work under normal office conditions and work from home as required.
Work may require simultaneous use of a telephone/headset and PC/keyboard and sitting for extended durations.

May be required to work additional hours beyond standard work schedule.