Cloud Architect Lead
Big dreams often start small. From an idea in a London pub, we have grown into a global cloud enabler which operates across 7 countries and speak over 30 languages.
Our purpose at Cloudreach is to “enable innovation.” We do this by helping enterprise customers adopt and harness the power of cloud computing. We believe that the growth of a great business can only be fueled by great people, so join us in our partnership with AWS, Microsoft and Google and help us build one of the most disruptive companies in the cloud industry. It’s not your average job, because Cloudreach is not your average company.
Mission:
The mission of the Cloud Architect Lead is to drive forward the Cloud Architect role within Cloudreach as a technical coach and mentor to the CA community. The CA Lead exemplifies technical expertise, best practice and acts as a mentor and coach within the CA community.
What will you do at Cloudreach?
- Consult with our US customers, helping build and architect new solutions, data center migrations, and scaling their adoption of cloud technologies.
- Drive solution architecture and best practices by producing internal white-papers and best practice guides, contributing to Cloudreach internal tooling, mentoring fellow architects.
- Lead and be deeply involved in the hands-on technical delivery of customer projects.
- Enable clients to visualize the possibilities of leveraging public cloud.
- Identify and develop opportunities to increase the consumption of Cloudreach services within customer accounts.
- Provide thought leadership in the form of public speaking, publish content such as blog articles, case studies.
- Establishing a Mentor & Mentee relationship with mini-pod members
- Creating work-related and personal development goals with CA’s in your mini-pod.
- Working with your CEL to ensure everyone in the team can execute to their fullest potential.
- Collaborating with the CA Role Owner to delegate and execute on role roadmap items.
- Starting and following up on the work when an SME in your mini-pod triggers a performance review
- Have a weekly touch point with the members of your SME mini-pod.
- On-board Cloud Architects new to the role.
- Champion the role of Cloud Architect within Cloudreach
- Become the “Go To” point of contact with cross BU involvement on an established topic influencing CE ability to execute engagements.
- Attend, participate in and regularly chair the weekly CA Sync, CA Meetup and ad hoc training sessions
What do we look for?
- Flexibility to travel up to 100% in a given month if needed and 60-70% average per year
- Experience with architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting of greenfield and/or migration projects using public cloud
- Deep technical experience in one or more of the following:
- Software design or development (Continuous Delivery/Integration, adoption of DevOps practices)
- Systems Operations / Management
- Enterprise Architecture
- Infrastructure Design
- IT Security and governance
- Automation and System Orchestration
- You have experience with programming, preferably in Python, but at least, in a modern programming language such as Go, Ruby, Java, C++, Perl or .NET
- Excellent communication skills
- Customer facing experience of a consultative nature
- Build relationships within the CA community as a subject matter expert with the focus of sharing experience and skills to elevate the entire CA team.
- Ability to synthesize information and efficiently produce, maintain and disseminate sections of knowledge.
- Demonstrate ability to teach, coach, and mentor other members of the CA community through tools such as weekly sync meetings, scheduled events, quarterly/annual speaking blocks, etc.
- Coaching and mentoring skills i.e. experience with technically nurturing peers to advance their knowledge of different technologies and business processes.
- Excellent communication skills.
What are our cloudy perks?
- A MacBook Pro and smartphone
- Unique ‘cloudy’ culture -- we work hard and play hard
- Uncapped holidays and your birthday off
- World-class training and career development opportunities through our own Cloudy University
- Centrally-located offices
- Working with a collaborative, social team, and growing your skills faster than you will anywhere else
- Quarterly kick-off events with the potential to travel abroad
- Full benefits and 401k match
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