Cloud Software Architect

OpsGuru,a Carbon60 Company 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 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.

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.

What To Expect

As a 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.

Typical Day

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 microservice based architectures.

• Providing support to move 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.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ 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 one of the following: ReactJS, Angular, Vue, Ember), Jamstack

• Working experience in at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, C#

• Deep understanding of secure coding practices

• Experience with at least one of NoSQL (ex. MongoDB, DynamoDB)

• Design, develop and implement unit and scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development

• Experience designing end to end applications ready for production release

• Experience using cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Ancillary Skills

• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication 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

• 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

• Working knowledge of container runtimes and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

• Experience with agile software development

• Experience designing and building B2B data collection or exchange solutions such as third party integrations, SaaS platforms, productized APIs, or IoT connected platforms

As an employer, Carbon60 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.

Carbon60 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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