Cloud Software Architect

OpsGuru, a Carbon60 Company is a global engineering and consulting group that was named 2022 AWS Partner of the Year. 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's value to our customers centers around our ability to provide deep technical guidance based on their business needs. Maybe you’re an expert with serverless architecture and thrive off of making healthcare better for women like the Nivi Platform project (https://opsguru.io/customer-success-nivi). Or perhaps Kubernetes and IoT is your sweet spot like our Cocoflo project (https://opsguru.io/customer-success-cocoflo). Either way, the benefit of this role is that you will always be able to learn and grow from the different scopes and projects

We achieve success 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. 

The Role

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. 

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. 

Requirements:

• 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 two other modern programming languages such as Java, Scala, C#, Python, etc
• Deep understanding of secure coding practices

Experiences

• Extensive experience with at least one of relational database platform (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MySql)
• Experience with at least one of NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase, ElasticSearch)
• Understanding of web protocols, serializers, CDNs, DNS, web security controls and best practices
• Design, develop and implement unit and scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development
• Experience using Git source control systems connected to automation pipelines (CI/CD)
• Experience designing end to end applications ready for production release
• Experience using cloud computing platforms (AWS Preferred)
• Experience writing documentation related to requirements, architectures, code, or tests cases
• Experience using GraphQL
• Experience working with serverless compute solutions (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, OpenFaaS)
• Experience with IoT related technologies, services and projects

Skills

• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills (English)
• 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

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of data structures, OOP, architectural and design patterns
• Exposure to broad range of frontend and backend technologies, languages and frameworks
• Experience with applications leveraging message queues, service buses, and stream processors
• Working knowledge of container runtimes and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Knowledge of functional programming and experience with one of the functional languages (Erlang, Elixir, Closure, Haskell, F#, Rust, etc.)
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production ready software involving highly scalable distributed systems, hybrid-cloud or cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
• 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