Cloud Native Application Architect - Manchester, United Kingdom - Snaphunt

Description

The Offer

• Flexible working options
• Excellent career development opportunities
• Work alongside & learn from best in class talent

The Job

Your responsibilities will include:

• Understanding Application Architectures and Systems Design, pro-actively making recommendations on simplifying and improving clients products
• Finding opportunities to exploit cloud native technologies with clients' products
• Being part of designing and delivering cloud-native applications that deliver on key architectural requirements (scalability, reliability, observability, secure etc) and DevOps best practices
• Participating in various customer projects, from new infrastructure builds and migrations to audits and big data
• Giving workshops and designing recommendations for a technical team
• Becoming a trusted advisor for high-profile enterprise businesses and jointly manage the customer relationship and roadmap with the Nordcloud Sales team

The Profile

• Strong background in either Azure or AWS, understanding a breadth of key technologies. Some key technology areas for us are Serverless, Private Networking, NoSQL, and Kubernetes
• Experience with building and orchestrating containers
• Expertise with hosting and deployment of applications (CI Pipelines, Web Servers, DNS Configuration, Certificates, etc.)
• Knowledge of software development in a major language and API framework
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and/or Cloud Architectural Patterns for Development
• "Our ideal candidate is someone who can understand and articulate the end-to-end view of the application and the infrastructure"
• Active customer consultant and pre-sales attitude are a must
• Fluent communication skills in English to effectively liaise with the stakeholders of the region

The Employer

Our client is a European leader in cloud advisory, implementation, application development, managed services, and training.