Cloud Architect F/H

Job Description

Reporting to the Safran Landing Systems Director of IS Architecture and Cloud Factory the Cloud Architect designs and implements an organization’s cloud computing architecture and strategy.

The Cloud Architect is responsible for contributing to the Safran Landing Systems cloud strategy and is the domain architect in charge of the cloud environment. The Cloud Architect builds a business’s cloud architecture blueprint to deliver highly available, cost-efficient, and scalable cloud environments. This role supervises deployment in the cloud environment and application architecture for all aspects of the cloud. It is critical that a Cloud Architect is knowledgeable enough to be your business’s AWS Cloud subject matter expert and the go-to for anything related to the cloud.

A Cloud Architect is expected to define architecture to address business goals and outcomes such as the following:

• Increasing speed to market for customer IS solutions
• Driving resilience and agility
• Improving security and governance
• Cost control and reductions of investment in on premise solutions

Responsibilities

Cloud Architect responsibilities:

• Innovate cloud solutions
• Design technical blueprints – Schema – High-level -Low Level Designs
• Lead cloud teams and participate in Agile Squads with partners.
• Partner with Procurement, Information Security and Compliance
• AWS Cost forecasting and Monitoring
• Write technical documentation
• Lead/Mentor Cloud Squad members including deployment engineers, Dev/Ops and Systems Engineers
• Pitch cloud solutions
• Challenge traditional design and assumptions from partners
• Translate technical information
• Manage multiple projects in parallel
• Relationship building

Job Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as Cloud Architect focusing on AWS solutions
• Experience in a large Manufacturing organization will be an asset
• Experience with edge computing and hybrid cloud and on premise design
• Experience and ability to work in partnership with an Enterprise Architecture team as domain lead for Cloud services
• Expert experience in AWS Cloud but expectation is broad experience in multi-cloud solutions including MS Azure, GCP or others

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