Enterprise Architect - IT and Cloud at Derivco

Who are we?

• Our culture is DevOps based with current tooling such as Azure DevOps, GIT, Visual Studio, VS Code.
• We have a hybrid technology stack with an on-prem and cloud footprint. Our infrastructure stack on-prem includes VMware, Hashicorp, Cisco, f5, SQL Server, Kafka, Kubernetes. We run Windows Server and RHEL operating systems. Our environment is multicloud with workloads in Azure and AWS.
• Our systems are Enterprise scale processing thousands of transactions per second, geographically distributed and running 24/7.

What do we do?

A day in the life of a Derivco Cloud Architect typically includes the following:

• Conceiving and communicating designs for large scale and/or business-critical systems.
• Providing expert guidance and consultancy to teams facing tough technical challenges.
• Identifying and driving initiatives to improve our software at a system-wide level.
• Researching and realizing innovative new technologies or ideas.
• Mentoring.

What do you need?

General

• Ability to wrestle complexity into structure
• A great verbal and written communicator of technical topics to a wide audience of roles
• Solid technical foundation across a wide range of topics

Specific Skills And Experience

• At least 8 years technical expertise in one or more of the following technologies: Azure (fundamentals including networking), VMware, vSAN, NSX-T (SDN fundamentals), AWS (fundamentals), Nginx, HAProxy, Kafka, Kubernetes (fundamentals)
• At least 5 years of expertise architecting systems of substantial complexity (tens of thousands of online users, thousands of transactions per second, 24/7 availability)
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of a range of technical disciplines and techniques (client, server, database, message brokers, DevOps, high availability, scalability) … and how to harness this knowledge into well-architected, scalable cloud solutions which satisfy business strategy.
• Understanding of hybrid cloud considerations
• Understanding of different architectural patterns and application design patterns
• Undergraduate diploma/degree (preferred)
• TOGAF certified (preferred)