Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, DevOps

Summary

Join Trace3 as a Senior Cloud Architect and be responsible for designing cloud platform engineering solutions, overseeing project delivery, and participating in pre-sales activities. You will serve as a subject matter expert, guiding clients and partners to achieve their objectives. Responsibilities include designing and implementing consulting services, aligning solutions with best practices, collaborating with sales and account management teams, and building strong client relationships. You will also develop proof of concepts, create proposals, provide thought leadership in cloud technologies, and support Trace3's Digital Consulting group. This role requires a strong consulting background, extensive experience with Kubernetes and DevOps, and AWS certifications. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university required or equivalent work experience
• Strong consulting background with preferably prior hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (K8s) technologies such as EKS, AKS, GKE, and OpenShift
• Experience with observability solutions and Open Telemetry (OTEL)
• 5+ years of experience with implementation and support of cloud compute, networking, and storage services
• Experience with cloud operations using native and third-party tools for monitoring and management
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Ruby, or GoLang
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, excellent time management skills and able to effectively prioritize tasks in a fast-paced, high-volume, and evolving work environment
• Ability to approach customer and sales requests in a proactive and consultative manner; listen and understand customer requests and needs and effectively deliver
• Effectively facilitate discussions, collaborate with team members, and proactively engage with client resources for tasks such as discovery, requirements analysis, data collection, and synthesis
• Create the necessary documentation such as architecture, test/QA, and as-built documentation
• Comfortable managing multiple and changing priorities, and meeting deadlines in an entrepreneurial environment

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and oversee implementation of consulting and hands-on services offerings for platform engineering
• Serve as a cloud native technical resource to determine the needs of our client’s businesses and recommend solutions across the broad cloud and platform engineering ecosystems
• Align solutions with standards and best practices working with cross-functional engineering and consulting teams
• Collaborate and communicate with the Sales and Account Management teams to ensure smooth and successful delivery and assist with the identification of additional services and sales opportunities within the customer’s environment
• Using your consulting background, establish strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers in client organizations
• Contribute to the development of internal best practices as well as new innovative consulting and hands-on services offerings that we can take to market
• Develop and deliver proof of concepts to clients
• Support the Sales team by creating level-of-effort estimates and proposals
• Provide thought leadership in cloud native technologies, DevOps, and platform engineering
• Provide insights into the partner ecosystem, advancements and emerging technologies related to Platform Engineering, Automation and Observability
• Maintain enterprise use cases and stories to support our GTM, offerings and to represent the landscape
• Support Trace3’s Digital Consulting group with participation in Anchor Accounts, thought leadership to drive continuous engagement in our most strategic clients

Preferred Qualifications

• DevOps and DevSecOps ecosystem experience including CI/CD solutions, Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab, Harness is strongly preferred
• Experience with BackStage and/or other internal developer portals a big plus
• Knowledge of K8s operators and solutions like Cilium and Crossplane
• AWS Certified Solution Architect and/or DevOps Engineer

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match, 529 College Savings Plan, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, and Long-Term Disability
• Competitive Compensation
• Training and development programs
• Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages
• Collaborative and cool culture
• Work-life balance and generous paid time off