Cloud Architect

About company:

HCL is a business enterprise with presence in the fields of technology and healthcare. Founded in 1976 as one of India’s original IT garage startups, the HCL Enterprise generates annual revenues of US $10.5 billion and has 176,000 employees operating out of 50 countries.

About Role:

HCL seeks a Cloud Architect for a full-time employment opportunity in Bay area, CA. This is a salaried position with benefits for HCL; it requires candidates already local to the Bay area or willing to relocate (with paid relocation assistance). No sponsorship available.

The ideal candidate should have 10+ years experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations, they will act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS / GCP and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management.

Must have skills / experience:

Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
Knowledge of all components with technical architecture along with exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments. Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.
Strong understanding of network architecture and application development methodologies. Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client / server system
Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.
Drive scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, application build, product configuration, unit testing, and production deployment.
Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.
Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.
Ensure delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk.
Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations Cloud Architect Cloud & DevOps Duties & Responsibilities.
Provide thought leadership in industry and to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements.
Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts.
Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools and system.