About the Opportunity:
As a Cloud Architect Principal at Sagent, you will be at the forefront of our advanced cloud strategy, orchestrating high-caliber solutions across a diverse technology ecosystem. Your role will not only require deep expertise in cloud infrastructure but also a specialized focus on implementing and optimizing observability frameworks using Dynatrace. This position is ideal for someone who is not only proficient but also passionate about leveraging cloud technologies to drive substantial business impact through robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions.
Your day-to-day at Sagent:
Cloud Strategy Development:
- Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and refine the company’s cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
- Stay abreast of emerging cloud technologies, including the utilization of Dynatrace for advanced observability and performance monitoring, assessing their capability to enhance our organization.
Architecture Design:
- Design and implement robust, scalable, and highly available cloud architectures incorporating the Zuplo API management platform, Istio service mesh, and CloudFlare CDN and WAF.
- Architect solutions integrating Dynatrace for comprehensive observability across microservices running on PaaS Kubernetes (GKE, AKS)
Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the cloud engineering team with a strong emphasis on best practices for observability and performance monitoring.
- Lead architecture discussions focusing on the integration of Dynatrace within our existing and future cloud infrastructures.
Solution Implementation:
- Hands-on experience in setting up, configuring, and optimizing Dynatrace within cloud solutions to monitor and ensure optimal performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to seamlessly integrate cloud components and services such as Confluent Kafka, and IBM Kogito into our broader architecture.
Organization and Optimization:
- Continuously monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure using Dynatrace to ensure superior performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Recommend and implement enhancements to observability practices, ensuring high availability and minimal performance bottlenecks.
Documentation and Reporting:
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to cloud architecture, configurations (including Dynatrace), and processes.
- Generate regular reports on system performance and observability metrics to guide future improvements.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Work closely with internal stakeholders, vendors, and partners to drive cloud-related initiatives with a significant focus on enhancing observability and system performance.
- Effectively communicate the benefits and insights gained from Dynatrace implementations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 6-10+ years of relevant experience OR 8-10+ years of relevant experience.
- Extensive, hands-on experience with Azure, or Google Cloud Platforms.
- Proven expertise in implementing and managing Dynatrace within complex cloud environments.
- Extensive exposure to/experience with the following products and technologies or their equivalents:
- API front ends and backends on Zuplo and Azure APIM
- Distributed MicroServices architectures (eg: service Mesh with Istio)
- CloudFlare CDN and WAF
- Confluent Kafka (PaaS)
- Azure DevOps CICD, ArgoCD, LaunchDarkly
- PaaS Kubernetes (AKS, GKE)
- Hashicorp Vault and Terraform
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols, infrastructure automation, and configuration management with a special focus on observability and monitoring solutions.
- Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills with strong leadership capabilities and a data-driven analytical mindset.
- Willingness to travel occasionally (up to 20%).
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