The Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for the design, implementation and advanced technical support of Private and Public Cloud environments. The incumbent will collaborate closely with our external partners, as well as internal Infrastructure, Applications, Security and Network teams to establish a scalable and dynamic Hybrid Cloud landscape focused on the agile delivery of Business solutions. This role will be responsible for integrating both On-Prem and Cloud-native solutions and services, as well as providing support for Cloud migration, operations and maintenance for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS workloads.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, document and maintain Cloud Strategy and Governance process
• Develop, document and maintain Cloud Standards and Policies
• Lead contract efforts with Managed Service Providers and support providers
• Drive the development of effective Cloud solutions that meet organizational and business requirements
• Create detailed Cloud infrastructure and applications technical designs, ensuring alignment to the IT Solutions Architecture, IT Roadmap and applicable Standards
• Effectively execute proof of concept exercises and drive solutioning efforts
• Provide Cloud cost management/optimization, consumption and quota management and capacity forecasting and tracking services
• Provide Project Management services
• Review, configure, and provide advanced technical support for existing Cloud workloads
• Work with Vendors and Service Delivery across Private and Public Cloud environments supporting On-Prem as well as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS workloads
• Manage subscriptions, create and manage policies for compliance
• Implement platform protection, including network security, host security, container security and resource management security
• Work with Application Stakeholders and Security team to perform Security management, including security operations, security policies and security alerts
• Work with Application and Development teams to ensure DevOps Security objectives are met
• Work with the Security team to ensure data and applications are secured, including configuring encryption, SSL/TLS certs, permissions to secrets, certificates and key rotation
• Implement and manage Identities and Access using AD, Entra ID, B2C, and Single Sign-on functions
• Optimize the use of Storage Accounts, Databases, Templating, Encryption and Upgrades
• Coordinate and perform maintenance activities including Vulnerability Management and Patching
• Optimize Data Replication services ensuring Business expectations for Data Protection and Availability SLAs are met
• Coordinate Business Impact Analysis, Develop and Perform Business Continuity planning and exercises
• Develop and Report key Service Levels for Cloud and Business services tracking availability, performance and security metrics
• Implement and manage network deployment tasks such as setting NSGs, virtual networks, Firewalls, Load Balancers, VPNs and Netbond
• Continually seek new automation and provisioning technologies and the use of services to achieve higher levels of optimization and consistency