Getronics Looking for IT Cloud architect at India Full Time

Job Purpose

The Chief Cloud Architect is responsible for leading the creation of a technology framework and providing technical leadership in support of Getronics initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.

The Chief Cloud Architect reports into the Engineering and Architecture tower but would be embedded into the Cloud-DevOps effort to provide architectural leadership and best practices. Additionally, the Chief Cloud Architect will be responsible for ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for high availability and disaster recovery.

Accountabilities

Determine needs of by consulting stakeholders to ensure collaboration with them throughout the project.

Autonomy/Judgement/Decision Making

• Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems
• Accountable for whole or parts of the architecture and its implement ability and deploy ability.
• Develop and design system solutions that will meet the requirements of the customer and requirements within the value chain where the customer is part of.
• Participate in discussions on the direction that will take in their quest for business & IT alignment
• Expected to reach decisions regarding application architectures in a timely manner while remaining broadly within the overall direction set by our target blueprints further manage execution of implementation plans in accordance with pre-determined specifications.
• Provide expert – level support for the purposes of establishing critical benchmarks and conducting evaluations.
• The individual must be able to balance multiple perspectives such as overall strategic priorities, specific project priorities, financial factors and technology related factors.
• Accountable for the development of doc umentation and training for customer and end-users.
• Know, understand and apply corporate standards (methods, tools and processes).

Managing Resources and relationship management

• Must be able to work within the constraints of the projects they are providing support to. Such constraints are likely to be financial, time based, skills based etc.
• Architect will exert significant influence over the actions of development teams (Internal and External).
• Support, coach, and transfer expert knowledge to more junior colleagues.
• Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts

Complexity/Problem Solving

• In designing application architectures, the candidate will need to meet requirements which are both challenging and, at times, may be contradictory. The outcome will be based on an assessment of salient factors, which will need to be communicated effectively to the major stakeholders.
• In supporting development teams, the candidate will regularly be called on to provide assistance with problem determination. Such problems will concern issues identified during development or, on occasion, in live applications and are often extremely complex and convoluted in nature. The ability to approach such problems logically, using a process of elimination is essential.

Knowledge and Experience

The ideal candidate will have a M.Sc.. Or higher in Computer Science qualified with at 10 or more years’ experience in designing large and complex cloud operations in large organizations, a research or academic environment is required. The position requires strong leadership and team building skills and must be able to collaborate effectively with a group of high performing individuals.

Essential

• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services

o Essential: VMware,

o Preferred: Azure, AWS, Google

• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy,

virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)

• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert within Getronics cloud end-to-end architecture, including both public and private providers, networking, provisioning, and management
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc.
• At least 4 years of Leadership experience
• Ability to converse equally well with technical and business
• Strong Interest in innovation
• Excellent communication skills (English) spoken, written

Useful

• Understanding of enterprise software systems such as ServiceNow
• Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
• Strong Understanding of software architecture
• Experience with working with the following technology frameworks

o Automation

o Virtual agents/Chatbots

o RPA,

o Artificial intelligence,

o Machine learning,

o Big data

Technical Skills

Extensive knowledge of Java, Java EE, C#, Ruby-on-rails, Python, Enterprise integration frameworks and deployment frameworks,

A deep hands-on understanding of current technologies and development methods including;

• Service-Oriented and Domain based Architectures
• Business Process Orchestration Workflow and ESB
• Development technologies including NET, HTML
• Development techniques including Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall
• Experience of implementing COTS software packages
• Good knowledge with the following operating systems: Linux, Unix, Solaris, Ubuntu, Windows.
• Good understanding of networking: TCP/IP, IP addresses, HTTP, DNS
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes
• Web applications architecture
• Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

About Getronics

Getronics is an ICT Services group consisting of the Getronics and Connectis brands. With an extensive history that extends over 130 years, the Getronics family has 4000+ employees in 22 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and has a complete portfolio of integrated ICT services for the large enterprise and public sector markets.

Our services portfolio is designed to build digital experiences that drive real business outcomes. Our capabilities span across Digital Workplace, Cloud Services, Smart Spaces, Business Applications, Security & Compliance, Field & On-Site Support, Service Desk and Network Services.

Getronics is the leading member in the Global Workspace Alliance, a

unique model that provides customers with a consistent IT service throughout the world, with one single point of contact and billing entity, delivering services to 100 countries. The GWA is ranked number 3 globally according to OVUM’s Managed/Maintained End-user Devices with a total of 10M assets.