Cloud Architect

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Nextuple is a technology company with deep domain experience in Retail and Supply Chain. Nextuple brings an innovative approach and solution to Ecommerce operations and fulfillments, focusing on quality, efficiency, and consistency for customers and partners. Nextuple is rapidly expanding in its digital offerings and is in need of a Cloud Architect to join the fast-growing, customer-facing digital applications space. Learn more at www.nextuple.com.

Your Role

As a Cloud Architect you will be a part of the Nextuple Engineering team that is building high quality enterprise class software for the retail industry.

Job Requirements

Creating a well-informed cloud strategy and managing the adaptation process
Evaluating cloud applications, hardware and software
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Nextuple products
Build effective monitoring and alerts for the Production and non-productions deployments of Nextuple products
Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime
Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required
Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components
Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure
Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery
Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing
Perform automatic backup / restore of production database
Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost effective manner
Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception
Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed
Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members
Keep an eye on evolving DevOps best practices in the industry and plan for their adoption at Nextuple
Adopt Industry Best practices in DevOps at Nextuple

Essential Skills & Qualifications

General

Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps or BitBucket Pipelines
Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes
Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc.
Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.
Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup
Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems
Certification in at least 1 public cloud system
Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.

Desirable Skills

Minimum 7 years of DevOps experience, preferably in a Software product company.
Graduate or Postgraduate in Engineering / Computer Applications
Has familiarity with the retail industry domain
Expertise in more than one cloud provider like Azure, AWS etc
Desire to work on complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.
Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.

Certifications

Having some or all the following certifications will be an added advantage for the Cloud Architect role at Nextuple.

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM®)
AWS Certified Solution Architect
GCP Certified Cloud Architect
Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Azure training and certifications