Sr. Cloud Software Architect
OpsGuru is a global engineering and consulting group. 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 empowers customers with technology to solve their business problems and provide the tools to assure success in their digital transformation.
OpsGuru's value to our customers centers around our ability to provide deep technical guidance based on their business needs. We achieve this by assigning small, virtual teams of highly skilled individuals to each client. Within these teams, the Senior Cloud Software Architect is responsible for providing technical expertise and leadership to Cloud Software Engineers, while also maintaining a systems view that is able to reconcile technical decisions with broader project goals. Senior Cloud Software Architects work alongside our Principal Consultants and Engagement Managers to ensure our project deliverables meet stakeholders' needs while upholding OpsGuru's standards for quality and operational maturity.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Cloud Software Architect you will use your experiences to help customers plan, design, build, and implement modern cloud-based applications as part of a professional services delivery team.
Architects work to understand business and technical requirements, work with our customers to create backlogs of prioritized work, design application architectures and deployment processes that are secure and scalable, provide best practice guidance around release processes and architecture patterns, provide recommendations for optimizations (including user experience, performance, scalability, availability, and cost), and help customers with application modernization or greenfield development.
Senior 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:
● Application modernization projects to migrate applications to newer or updated technology stacks, languages, and frameworks.
● Transformation of applications to leverage modern infrastructure services such as containers or serverless.
● Application modernization to help move from monolithic applications to service oriented or microservice based architectures.
● Moving applications from an existing database engine (such as Oracle DB) to a new target data service (for example Postgres, NoSQL database, etc).
● Understanding requirements to transform existing applications, or create greenfield applications, using scalable event driven architectures with Cloud Native serverless solutions.
● Enhancing applications to optimize performance by leveraging tools such as content delivery networks, caching systems, modern file storage solutions, etc.
Requirements:
Core competencies (Mandatory):
Coding Skills
● 8+ years of experience as software engineer or software architect
● 2+ years experience acting as a technical lead on projects or teams
● Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript/ES6:
● NodeJS (experience with at least one of the following: Express, Socket.IO, NestJS)
● UI (experience with at least two of the following: ReactJS, Angular, Vue),
● Working experience the following:
○ Java (experience with at least one of the following frameworks: Spring, Play, Struts)
○ C# (experience with both .NET 4 and .NET Core, ASP.NET)
○ Python (experience with at least one of the following: DJango, Flask, Bottle)
○ PHP (experience with at least one of the following: Laravel, Cake, Symfony, Drupal)
● Experience with HTML/HTML5, CSS/SASS/LESS, SVG
● Deep understanding of secure coding practices
Experiences
● Extensive experience with relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MySql)
● Experience with at least one of NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase,