Cloud Architect Location:Milwaukee, WI Duration:12Months Job Description: Understand business goals of migration to the cloud and implementing CICD; Investigate and analyze application architecture, technology stack, requirements to new infrastructure and change management process; Collaborate with infrastructure, application development, testing, release engineering, and production operations teams; Create deployment architecture based on open source technology stack for automation; Establish efficient continuous delivery process and production operations process; Ensure compliance with SOC2, HIPAA, PCI requirements as needed; Plan phases of client journey towards the final architecture state; Lead the engineering team through the implementation; Provide technical governance and sign off on engineering team deliverables. A cloud architect works with all levels of client personnel from C*-level executives to individual engineers. Internally, a cloud architect guides Grid Dynamics delivery team and ensures compliance of the implementation with the architecture. While spending most time at a client, the architect also participates in internal Grid Dynamics activities. These activities include training, knowledge sharing, technology pre-sales, the creation of blueprints and case studies, and participation in outbound thought leadership activities, like writing blogs and attending conferences. Requirements: To be successful in the role, a cloud architect needs to be highly motivated in achieving high business value with technology. We require 5+ years of relevant experience in information technology in the senior roles related to CICD, DevOps, deployment automation, and cloud. The candidate should be able to demonstrate experience with: DevOps principles and stages of CICD process from source code management, to build, deployment and test automation, finishing with production deployments; Production operations and site reliability engineering principles; Public cloud IaaS including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and IBM SoftLayer; CICD infrastructure technology stack including Jira, flavors of Git, Jenkins, Bamboo, Nexus, Docker; Provisioning and deployment automation technology stack including Hashicorp stack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and many others; Microservices platform stack including Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, Netflix OSS / Spring Cloud, Consul, Etcd; Service-oriented or microservices architecture and distributed application design principles; Private and public PaaS including CloudFoundry, OpenShift, IBM Bluemix, Heroku; CICD process and infrastructure, ideally in the context of multi-service applications. While it is not necessary to have expert knowledge of every DevOps tool, process, and technology in the spectrum, it is required to have a strong working knowledge with a subset of the technologies above. Broad awareness of different areas of DevOps is essential