About the job                                                                                          

The IaaS Design Engineering team is looking for a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to help build and maintain the next generation of hosted SAS Cloud. Our team owns IaaS technology domains, sets standards, develops new solutions, and much more for hosted SAS environments, corporate/internal teams and R&D. 

As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will:

• Think analytically, write/edit technical material, and present clearly on technical matters in a business context for delivery and operations teams.
• Exercise your ability to adapt and react to complex issues in a timely manner as our business needs and objectives evolve.
• Ensure the implementation of agreed upon technical architectures.
• Collaborate across business units and lead discussions on use case and requirements for cloud services that align with corporate research and development strategy
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability through architecture enhancements and best practices.
• Learn every day, and expect technology to drive a new status-quo.

Required qualifications

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, or equivalent work experience.
• Multi-Public Cloud experience with at least
  • 5+ years of experience in supporting and architecting enterprise solutions/services.
  • 2+ years of experience with industry leading public cloud providers or equivalent certifications.
  • 2+ years of experience in systems support and consulting.
  • 2+ years of experience in Linux.
  • 1+ year of experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes.
• In-depth experience in all major aspects of Information Technology (servers/compute, network, storage).
• Experience in deploying and managing containerized services.
• Development experience in a major scripting or compiled programming languages.
• Experience using source control solutions like GitHub or GitLab.

Preferred qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or other related certifications.
• Experience with large-scale, multi-platform enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with automation through interaction with remote APIs (REST).
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or Windows Server Technologies.
• Experience with LDAP, ADFS, SAML, or other Identity and Access Management Solutions.
• Experience with on-prem hypervisor technologies.
• Experience with WAN technologies and how they interact with public cloud solutions.