Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Client Engagement:
• Partner with senior client executives to understand their business challenges and strategic goals.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of existing IT environments, identifying opportunities for cloud adoption and transformation.
• Develop and present compelling business cases for cloud solutions, demonstrating clear benefits, costs, and ROI.
• Craft detailed, enterprise-wide cloud strategies and roadmaps that align with clients' long-term business objectives.
• Evaluate and recommend optimal cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) based on specific workload requirements.
• Ensure strategies incorporate industry best practices and leverage cutting-edge cloud technologies.
Cloud Architecture Design:
• Lead the design and deployment of cloud-based solutions across platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Develop scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures that meet business requirements.
• Integrate cloud services with on-premises infrastructure and other cloud services.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Architect sophisticated cloud solutions, encompassing infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Lead and Design migration strategies and plans for transitioning complex applications and data to the cloud.
• Incorporate advanced security, compliance, and scalability considerations into all architectural designs.
• Lead the Design and deploy cloud-based solutions across various platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Develop scalable and secure cloud architectures that meet business requirements.
• Integrate cloud services with on-premises infrastructure.
• Optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Cloud Migration Strategy:
• Lead and oversee the planning and execution of data and application migrations to cloud environments.
• Assess existing infrastructure, identify migration requirements, and develop detailed migration strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless migration with minimal disruption.
• Address and resolve complex migration challenges, ensuring data integrity and system reliability.
• Provide post-migration support, optimization, and performance tuning.
• Develop and implement cloud migration strategies for moving on-premises workloads to GCP, AWS, or Azure, considering factors such as application dependencies, data gravity, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead and oversee large-scale cloud migration projects, ensuring successful and timely execution.
• Coordinate with senior cross-functional teams, including developers, system administrators, and security experts.
• Continuously monitor and optimize cloud environments for peak performance and availability.
Leadership and Mentorship:
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior architects and engineering teams.
• Mentor and coach team members, promoting knowledge sharing and professional development.
• Lead technical discussions and workshops to foster innovation and best practices.
Disaster Recovery (DR):
• Lead Design and development of robust DR strategies and solutions to ensure business continuity.
• Design DR architectures, including backup, replication, and failover mechanisms.
• Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to determine critical systems and recovery objectives.
• Perform regular DR testing and drills to validate recovery plans.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine and improve DR plans.
Cloud Governance and Compliance:
• Establish governance frameworks and best practices to ensure compliance with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and company policies across multi-cloud environments.
Security Architecture:
• Design and implement security architectures for multi-cloud environments, including identity and access management (IAM), network security, encryption, and data protection.
Cloud Cost Optimization:
• Identify opportunities to optimize cloud costs and resource utilization across GCP, AWS, and Azure through strategies such as reserved instances, spot instances, and rightsizing.
Cloud Automation and Orchestration:
• Develop automation scripts and templates to streamline the provisioning, deployment, and management of cloud resources across multiple cloud platforms.
Cloud Monitoring and Performance Optimization:
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track the performance, availability, and cost of multi-cloud environments and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Implement advanced practices for cloud management, including cost optimization, performance tuning, and resource management.
• Conduct regular strategic reviews and assessments of cloud environments, ensuring alignment with evolving business needs.
• Provide high-level training and mentorship to clients' IT teams for ongoing cloud management and operations.
Vendor Management:
• Evaluate and select third-party cloud services, tools, and solutions that complement GCP, AWS, and Azure offerings and align with Solution architecture standards.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:
• Work closely with business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors to understand business requirements, communicate cloud architecture decisions, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Continuous Learning and Innovation:
• Stay updated on the latest trends, best practices, and technologies in cloud computing and contribute to the innovation of multi-cloud solutions within the organization.