Veredus - DC is hiring a Sr. Cloud Architect

Cloud Solutions Architect Perm Role $130,000-$150,000 This employee will be responsible for building enterprise solutions and architecting the platform for hosting these solutions. We offer both Public Cloud services (multi-tenant) and dedicated Private Cloud services that need to be built and maintained for our customers. Candidates must be experts in all the technologies used to build an enterprise cloud platform including VMware, enterprise storage (SANs, NAS), virtual networking, capacity planning, cloud security, desktop virtualization, and application delivery. The candidate must be well versed in enterprise data center configuration, remote management, and remote monitoring solutions needed to build totally fault tolerant and highly available solutions for our customers. Points of failure need to be eliminated and platforms must be architected to meet 100% uptime SLAs. New systems must be built with local and geographic redundancy. Responsibilities • Visionary in the pursuit of cost effective, high availability solutions. • Monitor the market and evaluate new cloud products, services, and appliances from leading vendors such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Dell, and Juniper • Work with Executive Mgmt to develop products that can be monetized at high margin • Document and diagram cloud solutions. Capture all specific requirements needed to support the platform and systems. • Provide team lead support and guidance to Tier 3 (Senior) Engineers and rest of engineering team • Evaluate customer requirements on large enterprise deployments to provide architectural guidance, experience, and approval • Responsible for all the technical aspects of our solutions at the core, structural level. • Participate in frequent training in order to bring cloud industry best practices to iCore’s solutions. Earn vendor and industry certifications • Design, build, support, and train at all layers of the cloud platform’s architecture including: – Core physical components; servers, network, and storage. Capacity & performance thresholds – Virtualization layer – pros and cons of each vendor’s solution – Virtual networking and connectivity – Security design, implementation, and monitoring – Application layer – public, private, hybrid cloud solutions • Provide consultation and support (business and technical) to users and other technical units • Personally or oversee installation and configuration of all cloud hardware and software. Skills and Requirements • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and support cloud solutions for 100,000+ users • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • At least three to five years of experience managing large scale production data center environments. • Enterprise Storage experience (Equalogic, NetApp, HP, IBM, etc) • Unique technical understanding of the product development lifecycle, including being able to identify opportunities to provide new solutions to customers. • Demonstrated experience building products from concept phase to robust solutions launched in production many times over • Experience as a technical consultant, senior engineer, system architect, and sales engineer • Demonstrated ability to incorporate automation into all aspects of cloud solutions. Scripting and development used in automating design, delivery, monitoring, and support of the cloud platform • Deep understanding of Microsoft and most popular Linux operating systems • WAN architecture - experience with MPLS, Site-To-Site VPNs, and SSL VPN, and WAN acceleration. • At least 2 years experience as a system architect • At least 5 years experience as a Senior engineer in both server and networking disciplines • Strong background with Microsoft Windows Server 2003/08/12, Active Directory, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Lync Server 2010, Sharepoint, Terminal Services, and SQL Server. At least 7 years total experience. • Experience with scripting; batch, VB script, or Powershell • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities Additional Skills Desired • MCSE, CCNA, VMware, and SAN manufacturer certifications • Experience implementing and managing environments with VMware vCloud Director • Management experience, such as experience as project leader or senior member of a successful project team • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline • Familiarity with Juniper Networks vGW virtual security appliance