Role :- Sr Solution Architect / Consultant – Cloud

A pioneer and leader in the Indian ICT industry. With more than 4000 employees spread across over 100 locations in India, A Company that adds value to every industry through its products, services and offerings is hiring for Sr Solution Architect / Consultant – Cloud

Location : Mumbai

Expereince 7 to 10 years

Role :- Sr Solution Architect / Consultant – Cloud
Roles and Responsibilities
· Understand the business and operational goals, RFP requirements of the client and recommend
cloud solution and offering
· Formulate and develop cloud solutions for customers across different domain
· Understand, articulate and incorporate Cloud strategies , define end-to-end architecture
solutions for customers.
· Provide competitive analysis of solutions with differentiation and articulate value proposition
· Demonstrated experience in the Presales process framework, proposal submission process and
best practices in order to convert leads to opportunities.
· Prepare and deliver solution-based, use case based presentations and demonstrations to
customers. Present the value proposition to a variety of audiences from C-level to end-users and
all levels in between.
· Experience in solution architecture, Solution Design/Sizing, effort estimation understanding is a
must have. Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan after
understanding client requirement and effort estimation.
· Contribute to the sales team in driving revenue by qualifying leads. Answer requests for
information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs) in a detailed and professional level.
· Experience or knowledge of container technology & micro services architecture-based
application design is required.
· Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical
mitigation support to the delivery teams. Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved
productivity and reduced cycle times
· Keep abreast of technology developments across industry various cloud offering
· Provide thought leadership with appropriate whitepapers.
Desired Candidate Profile
· Bachelors in an engineering or business discipline
· 10+ year experience as solutions architect with comparative customer facing roles
· Certification in Solution Architect
· Strong understanding across any of the Cloud (AWS/Azure) ( IAAS / PAAS / SAAS ).and its
components (compute, storage, network, data, middleware components, serverless compute,
security, Orchestrated containers/K8S) to deliver end to-end infrastructure architecture
solutioning for the clients
· Cloud services like different types of storage services, relational databases, NoSQL offerings,
compute services, alerting and notification services, audit and security services, HA with load
balancers
· Good understanding of network connectivity in a multi cloud environment (virtual network,
gateways, public/private/elastic ips.)
· Experience with migration of application to cloud
· Good understanding of Cloud Security (IAM, mitigation of attacks, default deny concept)
· Knowledge of Infrastructure as code (Terraform/ CloudFormation/ Blueprint/ARM templates)
· Knowledge of cloud native patterns, migrating legacy applications to cloud
· Experience with any scripting language will be bonus
· Expertise in Microservices Architecture and experience in Designing and Developing MSA-based
applications, Containerization, Container orchestration (eg. Kubernetes)
· Strong experience in various DevSecOps functions – Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery,
Continuous Deployment, Continuous Operations and Continuous Monitoring
Key behavioural attributes
· Proactive and highly organised, with strong time management and planning skills
· Able to meet tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure
· Experience working with key stakeholders at senior levels.
· Demonstrable relationships with IT vendors is a plus.
· Strong Leadership, professional attitude – and leading by example
· Passionate about IT and good understanding of emerging IT technologies is important
· Ability to multi-task and stay organised in a dynamic work environment
· Analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail
· Credible, confident, and articulate, with excellent communication and presentation skills and the
· gravitas to deliver ideas clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders
· Personable and approachable, with an enthusiastic and motivational nature and an overall
· passion for excellence