Cloud Software Architect Jobs

OpsGuru, a Carbon60 Company is a global engineering and consulting group that was named 2023 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

The Role

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 Software Developers, while also maintaining a systems view that is able to reconcile technical decisions with broader project goals. Software Architects work alongside our Principal Consultants to ensure our project deliverables meet stakeholders' needs while upholding OpsGuru's standards for quality and operational maturity.

What You'll Do

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:

• Understanding requirements to transform existing applications, or create greenfield applications, using scalable event driven architectures with Cloud Native serverless solutions.
• Application modernization to help move from monolithic applications to microservice based architectures.
• Transformation of applications to leverage modern infrastructure services such as containers or serverless.
• Enhancing applications to optimize performance by leveraging tools such as content delivery networks, caching systems, modern file storage solutions, etc.
• Application modernization projects to migrate applications to newer or updated technology stacks, languages, and frameworks.
• 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).

Requirements (Coding)

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript/ES6:
• 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, C#, RoR, Python, PHP)
• NodeJS (experience with at least one of the following: Express, Socket.IO, NestJS)
• 5+ years of experience as software engineer or software architect
• Deep understanding of secure coding practices
• 2+ years experience acting as a technical lead on projects or teams

Expected Experience

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

Skills

• Ability to lead discovery and design discussions with customers
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams with peers and with external customers and acting as a technical project lead
• 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
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills (English)

Nice to Have

• 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
• Knowledge of functional programming and experience with one of the functional languages (Erlang, Elixir, Closure, Haskell, F#, Rust, etc.)
• Experience with agile software development
• Working knowledge of container runtimes and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Experience designing and building B2B data collection or exchange solutions such as third party integrations, SaaS platforms, productized APIs, or IoT connected platforms
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with applications leveraging message queues, service buses, and stream processors