Cloud Architect (OCI)

Job title:

Cloud Architect (OCI)

Company

Equisoft

Job description

Cloud Architect (OCI)What is Equisoft? Equisoft is a global provider of digital solutions for insurance and investment, recognized by over 250 of the world’s leading financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive ecosystem of scalable solutions that help our customers meet all the challenges brought about by this era of digital transformation, thanks to our business needs-driven approach, industry knowledge, cutting-edge technologies and experts. With its business-driven approach, in-depth industry knowledge, cutting-edge technologies and multicultural team of experts based in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, Equisoft helps its customers meet the challenges of this era of digital transformation.Why Choose Equisoft? With 950+ employees, we are a stable organization that offers career advancement and fosters a stimulant environment. If that’s not enough, then check out these other perks below:

• Hiring Location: Canada (Montreal or Quebec City)

• We offer both in-office and remote work options, allowing you to choose a hybrid work arrangement

• Full-time Permanent Role

• Benefits available day 1: medical, dental, retirement plan, telemedicine program, employee assistance program, etc.

• Flexible hours

• Educational Support (LinkedIn Learning, LOMA Courses and Equisoft University)

Role: The Cloud Architect reports to the Vice President, Architecture and Systems Integration and works closely with a team of Cloud Developers and Cloud Architects. Following industry best practices, the Senior Cloud Architect will drive infrastructure automation roadmap to completion in a reliable and secure way; he/she is eager to share his/her expertise with the implementation teams by the means of guidelines, procedures, and standards.Your Day with Equisoft:

• Provide technical expertise in multiple cloud solution platforms (OCI & Azure), technology strategy and technical design decisions.

• Assess customer requirements, scope definition, requirements analysis, functional and technical design, infrastructure build, configuration, unit testing, as well as driving the production deployment.

• Evaluate and optimize the costs of the cloud solutions; develop, analyze and utilize cloud cost models and frameworks to ensure sound governance.

• Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements.

• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of an issue, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation to service owners.

• Communicate architectural decisions to stakeholders with the proper set of views and documents.

• Develop a library of deployable and documented cloud design patterns

• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation scripts and templates.

• Contribute to Cloud DevOps development activities and complex development tasks.

• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications.

• Interact with project leads and technical stakeholders in building and deploying cloud solutions.

• Identify, assess and propose the right trade-offs to meet non-functional requirements.

• Work closely with the IT security team to provide the appropriate monitoring mechanisms for the deployed architectures.

• Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.

Requirements:Technical

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering or Information Technology with 5 years of significant experience with multiple cloud platforms

• Minimum of 5+ years in a Solution Architecture role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms

• Combined experience spanning at several IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations.

• Excellent knowledge of the cloud security concepts.

• Solid Knowledge of Linux

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code frameworks and templates: Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation, etc.

• Experience with cloud Compute and Storage Services, databases, serverless functions, API Management/Service Bus, Identify Providers such as OID and Azure AD

• Experience with claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC

• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.

• Experience building and supporting mission critical technology components with Disaster Recovery capabilities.

• Experience with end-to-end solutions, big data, real time solutions (Event Hubs, Message Brokers) and batch solutions (Azure Data Factory, SSIS Packages, Azure Pipeline)

• Experience with large scale migrations and application landscapes into the cloud

• Experience with containers such as Kubernetes Services, Docker, or Cloud Formation

• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, etc.

• Expertise with production deployments and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Azure DevOps

• Excellent knowledge of English and French (spoken and written).

Soft skills

• Ability to adapt to a constantly evolving environment

• Able to work effectively across teams, with multiple stakeholders

• Team spirit, service-oriented attitude, diplomacy and autonomy

• Strong sense of organization and prioritizing

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to communicate, write and synthesize information

Nice to Haves:

• Knowledge of the Insurance Industry

• Experience in a management position

• Knowledge of Spanish (spoken and written)

Equisoft is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Expected salary

Location

Montreal, QC

Job date

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:37:14 GMT

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