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We are experts in the container ecosystem, data processing and analytics, and cloud-native technologies. Our team is formed by network, data, security, DevOps specialists and application developers. OpsGuru empowers customers with technology to solve their business problems and provide the tools to assure success in their digital transformation.\nOpsGuru's value to our customers centers around our ability to provide deep technical guidance based on their business needs. We achieve this by assigning small, virtual teams of highly skilled individuals to each client. Within these teams, the Senior Cloud Software Architect is responsible for providing technical expertise and leadership to Cloud Software Engineers, while also maintaining a systems view that is able to reconcile technical decisions with broader project goals. Senior Cloud Software Architects work alongside our Principal Consultants and Engagement Managers to ensure our project deliverables meet stakeholders' needs while upholding OpsGuru's standards for quality and operational maturity.\nResponsibilities\nAs a Senior Cloud Software Architect you will use your experiences to help customers plan, design, build, and implement modern cloud-based applications as part of a professional services delivery team.\nArchitects work to understand business and technical requirements, work with our customers to create backlogs of prioritized work, design application architectures and deployment processes that are secure and scalable, provide best practice guidance around release processes and architecture patterns, provide recommendations for optimizations (including user experience, performance, scalability, availability, and cost), and help customers with application modernization or greenfield development.\nSenior Cloud Software Architects will generally be delivering projects with small focused teams in an agile delivery methodology. Some examples of projects include, but are not limited to:\nApplication modernization projects to migrate applications to newer or updated technology stacks, languages, and frameworks.\nTransformation of applications to leverage modern infrastructure services such as containers or serverless.\nApplication modernization to help move from monolithic applications to service oriented or microservice based architectures.\nMoving applications from an existing database engine (such as Oracle DB) to a new target data service (for example Postgres, NoSQL database, etc).\nUnderstanding requirements to transform existing applications, or create greenfield applications, using scalable event driven architectures with Cloud Native serverless solutions.\nEnhancing applications to optimize performance by leveraging tools such as content delivery networks, caching systems, modern file storage solutions, etc.\nRequirements:\nCore competencies (Mandatory):\nCoding Skills\n8+ years of experience as software engineer or software architect\n2+ years experience acting as a technical lead on projects or teams\nStrong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript/ES6:\nNodeJS (experience with at least one of the following: Express, Socket.IO, NestJS)\nUI (experience with at least two of the following: ReactJS, Angular, Vue),\nWorking experience the following:\nJava (experience with at least one of the following frameworks: Spring, Play, Struts)\nC# (experience with both .NET 4 and .NET Core, ASP.NET)\nPython (experience with at least one of the following: DJango, Flask, Bottle)\nPHP (experience with at least one of the following: Laravel, Cake, Symfony, Drupal)\nExperience with HTML/HTML5, CSS/SASS/LESS, SVG\nDeep understanding of secure coding practices\nExperiences\nExtensive experience with relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MySql)\nExperience with at least one of NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch)\nExperience udingof web protocols, serializers, CDNs, DNS, web security controls and best practices\nExpirience designing and implementing unit and scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development\nExperience using Git source control systems connected to automation pipelines (CI/CD)\nExperience designing and deploying end to end applications ready for production release\n3+ years experience using public cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)\nExperience building and deploying containers solutions (i.e. K8S, OpenShift) and functions-as-a-service (i.e. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions)\nExperience writing documentation related to requirements, architectures, code, or tests cases\nExperience with agile software development\nExperience with applications leveraging message queues, service buses, and stream processors\nSkills\nStrong consulting and skills\nStrong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills (English)\nStrong AIand LLM usage skills\nAbility to work collaboratively in teams with peers and with external customers and acting as a technical project lead\nAbility to lead discovery and design discussions with customers\nAbility to plan and lead large scale projects, including cutover and rollback events\nSkilled at working with quality engineering to troubleshoot defects, refactor code, and remediate defects\nSolid understanding of software release, iterative development, and DevOps best practices\nAdditional competencies (nice to have):\nTechnology\nWorking knowledge of data structures, OOP, architectural and design patterns\nExposure to broad range of frontend and backend technologies, languages and frameworks\nKnowledge of functional programming and experience with one of the functional languages (Erlang, Elixir, Closure, Haskell, F#, Rust, etc.)\nExperience working in a DevOps environment and supporting Site Relability Engineering (SRE) concepts\nStrong understanding operational related best practices such as observability and high availability\nExperiences\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field\nSuccessful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production ready software involving highly scalable distributed systems, hybrid-cloud or cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation\nExperience designing and building B2B data collection or exchange solutions such as third party integrations, SaaS platforms, productized APIs, or IoT connected platforms\nExperience building cloud native, event-driven microservice architectures and APIs\nWhat's in it for you:\nCompensation & Perks\nCompetitive compensation package (160K - 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