Sr. Cloud Software Architect

OpsGuru is a global engineering and consulting group. 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.

OpsGurus 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 OpsGurus standards for quality and operational maturity.

Responsibilities

As 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.

Architects 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.

Senior 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:

Application modernization projects to migrate applications to newer or updated technology stacks languages and frameworks.

Transformation of applications to leverage modern infrastructure services such as containers or serverless.

Application modernization to help move from monolithic applications to service oriented or microservice based architectures.

Moving applications from an existing database engine (such as Oracle DB) to a new target data service (for example Postgres NoSQL database etc).

Understanding requirements to transform existing applications or create greenfield applications using scalable event driven architectures with Cloud Native serverless solutions.

Enhancing applications to optimize performance by leveraging tools such as content delivery networks caching systems modern file storage solutions etc.

Requirements:

Core competencies (Mandatory):

Coding Skills

8 years of experience as software engineer or software architect

2 years experience acting as a technical lead on projects or teams

Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript/ES6:

NodeJS (experience with at least one of the following: Express NestJS)

UI (experience with at least two of the following: ReactJS Angular Vue)

Working experience the following:

Java (experience with at least one of the following frameworks: Spring Play Struts)

C# (experience with 4 Core )

Python (experience with at least one of the following: DJango Flask Bottle)

PHP (experience with at least one of the following: Laravel Cake Symfony Drupal)

Experience with HTML/HTML5 CSS/SASS/LESS SVG

Deep understanding of secure coding practices

Experiences

Extensive experience with relational database platforms (PostgreSQL MSSQL Oracle MySql)

Experience with at least one of NoSQL (MongoDB DynamoDB CosmosDB Redis Memcached Cassandra HBase ElasticSearch/OpenSearch)

Experience udingof web protocols serializers CDNs DNS web security controls and best practices

Expirience designing and implementing unit and scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development

Experience using Git source control systems connected to automation pipelines (CI/CD)

Experience designing and deploying end to end applications ready for production release

3 years experience using public cloud computing platforms (AWS Azure or GCP)

Experience building and deploying containers solutions (i.e. K8S OpenShift) and functions-as-a-service (i.e. AWS Lambda Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions)

Experience writing documentation related to requirements architectures code or tests cases

Experience with agile software development

Experience with applications leveraging message queues service buses and stream processors

Skills

Strong consulting and skills

Strong verbal written and presentation communication skills (English)

Strong AIand LLM usage skills

Ability to work collaboratively in teams with peers and with external customers and acting as a technical project lead

Ability to lead discovery and design discussions with customers

Ability to plan and lead large scale projects including cutover and rollback events

Skilled at working with quality engineering to troubleshoot defects refactor code and remediate defects

Solid understanding of software release iterative development and DevOps best practices

Additional competencies (nice to have):

Technology

Working knowledge of data structures OOP architectural and design patterns

Exposure to broad range of frontend and backend technologies languages and frameworks

Knowledge of functional programming and experience with one of the functional languages (Erlang Elixir Closure Haskell F# Rust etc.)

Experience working in a DevOps environment and supporting Site Relability Engineering (SRE) concepts

Strong understanding operational related best practices such as observability and high availability

Experiences

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field

Successful 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

Experience designing and building B2B data collection or exchange solutions such as third party integrations SaaS platforms productized APIs or IoT connected platforms

Experience building cloud native event-driven microservice architectures and APIs

Whats in it for you:

Compensation & Perks

• Competitive compensation package (160K - 180K CAD / year)
• Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP)
• Access to the latest tech
• Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts

Flexibility & Time Off

• Remote first work environment
• Flexible work hours & location
• Paid parental leave options

Health & Wellness

• Employer paid health & dental premiums
• GreenShield Counselling Mental Health
• $500 in Health Care Spending Account annually

Growth & Development

• Peer recognition rewards

As an employer OpsGuru a Carbon60 Company recognizes the importance of balancing our careers with other aspects of our lives and our culture reflects this ethos - from flexible work hours to health and wellness incentives and having fun along the way. We look for people who thrive in an environment of accountability and at times ambiguity as we adapt and grow our business.

OpsGuru is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with all levels of ability. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We thank all applicants for their interest in this exciting opportunity.

Only candidates that meet the qualifications will be contacted for an interview.

Required Experience:

Senior IC