Cloud Computing - Solution Architects, Engineers

Summary

PurpleBox is hiring Solution Architects and Engineers for cloud consulting projects. Responsibilities include providing technical support, conducting discovery and assessment, communicating proposed architectures, educating prospects and customers, collaborating on technical collateral, attending training, and writing reports. Qualifications include a degree in CS or related field, experience with public clouds, containerization & virtualization technologies, configuration management tools, DevOps concepts, networking, compute, storage, and OS fundamentals, and scripting languages or web application development.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT Management or similar
• Experience in designing, building, and supporting large-scale and complex IT systems in public cloud
• Experience with cloud transformation and migration projects
• Certifications desired: AWS Solution Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, etc
• Experience working with Public Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Understanding of containerization & virtualization technologies; e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, VMware, Hyper-V
• Understanding of configuration management & orchestration tools; e.g., Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Understanding of DevOps, Infrastructure as code, and security concepts and tools
• Expertise in networking, compute, storage and OS fundamentals
• Experience with network and system administration (Windows/Linux, Database), open source technologies, scripting languages or web application development is a plus

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support and expertise for client project delivery teams
• Conduct technical discovery and assessment, gather business and technical requirements, architect client solutions to meet gathered requirements using a well-architected framework methodology
• Communicate proposed architectures with internal and client technical teams
• Be a technology evangelist and educate prospects and customers on the cloud solution that makes the most sense for their business and technology requirements
• Collaborate in the creation of technical collateral (blog posts, whitepapers, etc.) and provide training in your area of expertise
• Give back to the community by volunteering at technical events, speaking at technical conferences, organizing local meetups, and participating in case studies
• Attend and complete online and onsite training based on assigned training program
• Write, review, and edit reports, use cases, system documentation