Principal Cloud Architect – Infrastructure

Principal Cloud Architect – Infrastructure

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of infrastructure architecture experience, with 5+ years specializing in private cloud environments.
• Demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and scaling private cloud solutions.
• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, KVM) and software-defined infrastructure.
• Expertise in virtualized environments, hypervisor optimization, and private cloud compute scaling.
• Proficiency in SDN, overlay networking, and hybrid connectivity (MPLS, SD-WAN).
• Deep understanding of SDS, SAN/NAS, and backup solutions for private cloud.
• Experience implementing network segmentation, micro-segmentation, and security compliance in private cloud.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.) and orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of private cloud monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud models integrating private cloud with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of private cloud infrastructure solutions to improve scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Develop a long-term strategy for private cloud adoption, including on-premise infrastructure and hybrid cloud integration.
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with business objectives, leveraging industry best practices and emerging technologies.
• Establish private cloud standards, governance, and operational models for consistent delivery.
• Architect virtualized compute solutions leveraging technologies like VMware vSphere, Nutanix, or OpenStack.
• Optimize private cloud compute resources for reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Integrate high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies into compute designs.
• Design and implement SDN (Software Defined Networking) solutions to enable flexible, programmable network architectures.
• Develop overlay and underlay networking strategies to enhance private cloud connectivity.
• Implement hybrid network solutions to securely integrate on-premises private cloud with public cloud platforms.
• Architect private cloud storage solutions, including software-defined storage (SDS), to optimize performance and redundancy.
• Design scalable backup, recovery, and data protection solutions.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise storage policies and disaster recovery requirements.
• Define and implement private cloud security controls, including segmentation, firewalls, micro-segmentation, and intrusion detection/prevention.
• Enforce identity and access management (IAM) policies for private cloud resources.
• Ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS) within private cloud infrastructure.
• Leverage IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet) to automate private cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Promote self-service capabilities for infrastructure resources through automation and orchestration.
• Drive infrastructure lifecycle automation for monitoring, scaling, and patching.
• Implement advanced monitoring and observability tools to gain insights into private cloud infrastructure performance.
• Develop frameworks for predictive monitoring, log analysis, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, operations, and application teams to deliver private cloud solutions that align with business goals.
• Mentor infrastructure teams and provide technical leadership on private cloud best practices.
• Advocate for continuous improvement in private cloud capabilities and processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or relevant certifications (e.g., VMware VCP, Nutanix NCP, Red Hat OpenStack, or equivalent) preferred.