Cloud and Infrastructure Architect Full Time

About the job
The Cloud & Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the planning, coordination, development, and supervision of all activities related to the design, implementation and ongoing optimization & automation of cloud & on-premise infrastructure platform & components to host M2 group applications, and third-party solutions to meet the business functions and requirements of the organization. This position will report to the CTO.

Responsibilities:

Design and build Cloud infrastructure services.
Leverage platform Monitoring Services to maintain SLAs and overall platform performance.
Work closely with Cloud Engineers, DevOps engineers, Application developers and Security Architects to engineer and deliver Cloud infrastructure Solutions – on time and aligned to agreed performance metrics.
Identify and drive areas for service improvements in conjunction with the cloud service provider and other related parties.
Design, develop scripts, libraries and Code Deployment Pipelines to implement Infrastructure as code, automate and improve quality in deployment activities.
Provide troubleshooting and debugging support for Cloud platform projects and initiatives.
Provide Technical and Operational Governance across the Cloud & on-premise Computing environment.
Automate the provisioning/decommissioning of Cloud infrastructure when demand fluctuates.
Design and Configure Cloud infrastructures to support Cloud migrations and transformation initiatives.
All other projects and duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications:

Overall experience of 10+ years as a Tech lead/Lead Cloud/Infrastructure Architect
Experience in designing & implementing Large-scale distributed systems architecture across on premise and multi cloud platforms.
Hands-on experience with core LAN/WAN network technologies.
Cloud networking including Express Route, MPLS gateway, IPsec, Microsoft Peering, Private Peering.
Hands-on experience with AWS- EKS, EC2, Docker Management
Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK, Istio, Kong, Jaeger, Prometheus, Secret Manager, CodeBuild etc.
Understanding of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), in memory compute Mongo DB, REDIS and NoSQL.
Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle.
Background in Exchange/Trading Systems in general and crypto exchange in particular is preferred, but not required.
Hands on experience with System performance tuning.
Hands on experience tuning low latency systems
Deployment and configuration baseline automation, including popular toolsets (Chef) and technologies (PowerShell, Runbooks).
Experience with Microsoft AD , AWS Directory Services and PIM.
Cloud/AWS Cost Management and tagging.
Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, DNS, IP and OSI Network.
Hands on experience in AWS and at least one of Azure or Google Cloud experience.
DevOps including Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, ARM, Azure DevOps, Powershell.
Worked as a solution architect and/or application integration architect in a regulated financial organization like a bank or exchange house for 5+ years.
Systems engineering/infrastructure management and architecture experience of over 8+ years across on premise and cloud computing server side and serverless platforms etc.
Exposure or experience to set up and maintain blockchain & crypto infrastructure.