Job ID: 190809
Required Travel : No Travel
Managerial - No
Location: USA-Working from Home
Who are we?
Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our approximately 30,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.89 billion in fiscal 2023.
Overview
The Sr. Cloud Architect is responsible for defining, designing, explaining, and maintaining the services and infrastructure that support our client's Modernization journey. You will help to define systems architecture and provides vision, problem anticipation and problem-solving ability to Astadia clients. Additionally, you are familiar with Cloud Architectural concepts, best practices, and tooling. You rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals while performing a variety of tasks and duties as assigned.
What will your job look like?
- Factory Rollout Duties (when working with the Astadia tooling)
- Coordinate with clients and delivery teams to ensure successful delivery for project infrastructure, services, and containers, and credentials.
- Consult with and answer questions by clients and staff.
- Consult with clients and staff on networking, services, CI/CD, Source Code Management, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Interface and represent Astadia with cloud systems engineers, solutions architects, and directors at Microsoft, AWS or GCP during project delivery.
- Interface with client cloud engineering groups.
- Champion Cloud solutions for Astadia and our clients.
- Participate in technical initiatives related to the design, implementation, monitoring, problem resolution, availability, disaster recovery and overall maintenance of cloud systems.
- Interface with representatives of client business units, and technology groups to define requirements and processes needed to provision cloud services.
- Participate in all technical aspects of cloud technology, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage, Replication, and security internetworking projects including, short- and long-term planning.
- Help evaluate and select systems hardware, software, and services to fulfill various businesses needs as requirements develop.
- Perform cloud management functions/troubleshooting/capacity planning/performance monitoring utilizing various cloud service management and logging tools.
- Provide technical support, operations and problem resolution of cloud infrastructure as required, including any client specific on-call support during the project life cycle.
- Provide support and implementation planning for business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Provided technical guidance and knowledge transfer to peers and support personnel.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
- Be responsible to liaise with other groups such as business units and applications, database, and network teams to develop business and technical requirements, develop project plans, system designs and implementation plans.
All you need is...
All you need is...
- Experience with the following cloud environments:
- Experience with containerization on Windows and Linux.
- Scripting experience in support of DevOps processes
- Demonstratable experience with various Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Hybrid cloud delivery experience.
- Ability to respond quickly, troubleshoot and resolve a both cloud and system infrastructure problem in a methodical and effective manner.
- Proven written and verbal communications skills, including an ability to provide a synopsis to management.
- Must have a good grasp of cloud trends and the mission of the group to provide the most cost effective and efficient systems and maintenance.
- Strong architecture background to develop both high-level and low-level designs and capturing/documenting client requirements.
- Ability to document designs and implementations in detail.
- 10+ years of experience of high availability systems infrastructure design, implementation, and support experience.
- 10+ years of experience in cloud technologies and services implementation and support, strongly focused on Azure and AWS Infrastructure and Administration.
- 10+ years of experience in systems and virtualization design, implementation, and troubleshooting of mission critical IT systems in a 700+ environment across multiple sites.
- Bachelor's Degree (Master's Degree preferred) combined with 10+ years of related experience in Systems Architecture.
- Cloud Certifications in Azure Admin (AZ103/104, AZ301/302/303).
- Cloud Certifications in AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional).
- Certifications desired include: MCM, MCSD, MCSE, MCITP, MCPD, MCTS, or related educational experience.
Why You Will Love This Job
- Build your skills and work on a broad scope of activities
- Work with and craft sophisticated software products and solutions
- Ability to grow and gain many opportunities for professional development
- We offer a wide range of stellar benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as paid time off, sick time, and parental leave!
Amdocs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce