Cloud Architect

Category IT - Infrastructure
Position Type
Regular
Location
Carrollton, Texas
Remote
Can be located anywhere in US

Job Posting

At Fairway, we are committed to cultivating, fostering, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. In order to attract, recruit, hire, develop, and retain the very best employees at all levels, Fairway is committed to embracing talent and supporting a culture of inclusivity, reflective of Fairway's Core Values.

 

The Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, creating, maintaining, and documenting automation standards for code and infrastructure as code releases.

 

Job Duties:

  • Design & implement repeatable automation around our cloud infrastructure: build, test, deploy, and release processes
  • Ensure high availability of production services
  • Design improvements to enhance the availability of all services and processes
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects and environments
  • Collaborate with development to understand automation needs and provide solutions
  • Automate the delivery of infrastructure services
  • Develop and update automation strategies and standard practices
  • Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for automation
  • Investigate and resolve technical issues
  • Create or edit PowerShell or shell scripts to automate common maintenance tasks and/or new installation tasks
  • Manage environments in Azure subscriptions to ensure optimal capacity, performance, security, and availability
  • Maintain configuration management tools
  • Maintain code repository system
  • Develop automation methodologies for infrastructure build and system management activities across platforms and storage systems
  • Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records
  • Work closely with infrastructure, release management, and development to document and maintain deployment standards
  • Participate in on-call rotation
  • Other job duties as assigned

Required Knowledge and Skills:

  • Solid knowledge and understanding of developing specific and realistic goals and plans to prioritize, organize, track and accomplish work.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of current business acumen.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of organizing people, tasks, and activities to yield efficient work flow.
  • Solid knowledge and understanding of customer service and intrapersonal best practices.
  • Solid knowledge of Artifact repositories such as JFrog, Artifactory, and Nexus.
  • Solid knowledge of scripting software, PowerShell
  • Solid knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
  • Solid knowledge of building software and deploying tools
  • Solid knowledge of monitoring tools including Solarwinds, Dynatrace, or AppDynamic

Required Experience

  • 5+ years of related experience
  • 5+ years experience in software design/development and/or operations. With a base in Development, Systems Architecture, and/or Operations.
  • Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipeline tools, specifically Azure Devlops
  • Demonstrated experience hosting applications in Azure.
  • Demonstrated experience with Source Control systems, such as GIT and Bitbucket
  • Demonstrated experience with Terraform
  • Demonstrated experience in deploying web and application servers: IIS, Nginx, Node.js
  • Demonstrated experience with database systems such as AzureSQL, MSSQL and MongoDB
  • Demonstrated experience in implementing containers such as Docker and Kubernetes

Fairway is an equal opportunity employer & is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law.

 

What Fairway can offer YOU! 

  • Competitive compensation
  • Benefits include medical and dental insurance.
  • Life and Disability insurance
  • Matching 401k
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan
  • Paid Time Off plus company-paid holidays
  • Employee discounts for wellness, pet insurance, auto and homeowner’s insurance, and MORE!

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