What are we looking for?
Do:
- You lose sleep over how to plan for migrating complex cloud environments closely coupled with native GCP/AWS services?
- You get worked up if your manager or supervisor asks you to try the latest service that GCP/AWS just launched?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you are probably not the right fit for us. If solving really complex cloud challenges excites you, and in turn turns off a lot of your friends when you passionately explain why Terraform & Kubernetes is really cool, (like at every dinner), let’s chat.
Searce is looking for a Solutions Architect who is passionate about helping customers build infrastructures and applications at scale. Our Cloud Managed Services Solutions Engineering team consists of experienced technology consultants who’ve built awesome architectures. They have the technical breadth to understand the entire spectrum of infrastructure, data, AI/ML, and application solutions and yet don't hesitate to jump deeper and troubleshoot an error on the console. Having strong interpersonal skills, a Solutions Architect will work directly with some of our largest and fastest-growing customers to enable innovation through continuous deployment of cloud-native technology stacks and advanced cloud solutions.
Our Solutions Architect builds architectures and provides prescriptive guidance across application infrastructure, data services, AI/ML, networking, security, storage, operating systems, virtualization, and cloud-native databases. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of large-scale distributed computing solutions and experience leading deep architecture discussions and hands-on experience. You will partner with Sales, Professional Services, and other Searce or OEM Partner teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of our services.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Collaborate with clients to understand their business goals and technical requirements.
- Design comprehensive cloud solutions that align with best practices and client needs.
- Responsible for high-level requirement gathering, consulting, design, development, and review of the technical architecture as per business requirements.
- Creating a cloud-native architecture with customers/OEM Partners.
- Lead execution of overall go-to-market strategy involving business growth, accountability, customers and partner engagement.
- Create performance benchmarks of the systems and establish best practices specially before onboarding clients.
- Handling the technical tracks of architecture consulting and product selection, interacting with third-party vendors for managed security and cloud optimization offerings.
- Drive effort reduction through use of efficient architecture design and technical solutions. Building custom dashboards for clients (FinOps, SecOps & CloudOps).
- Conduct comprehensive infrastructure assessments and business outcome assessments to align technology solutions with customer objectives.
- Typical solutions will be based on Cloud Migration, Monitoring and alerting, Automation, AI/ML, Data Analytics, and improvements.
- Re-architect and refactor existing systems to optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Manage change effectively, ensuring seamless transitions to new architectures and technologies.
- Be a Searce Cloud evangelist. Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of various services and benefits offered by Searce and partner CSPs.
- Author or otherwise contribute to Searce’s customer-facing publications such as white-papers, blogs, and proof of concepts.
- In partnership with the sales team, formulate, and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of cloud platform products and services.
- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the Cloud solutions architect community.
Qualification
Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and preferably an MBA along with
Any current Google/AWS Cloud Certifications will be an added benefit and extra points if this is Professional Cloud Architect
- 5 to 10 years of IT/Cloud experience. Preferable to have at least 3+ years of solutioning experience or IT/Cloud experience.
- Good understanding of Cloud Technologies especially on AWS/GCP.
- Recent experience within Architecture, Design, and implementation of complex, highly available, and highly scalable solutions.
- DevOps understanding & proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools.
- Proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Thorough understanding of costs and security implications.
- Site Reliability Principles understanding.
- Vendor/Tools assessment and selection processes understanding.
- A result-oriented individual, driven with passion and the ability to explore solutions and solve complex customer problems, Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (including emoji fluency); a knack for delivering compelling presentations and product demonstrations.
- A consultative approach with solving your customer’s business challenges and having a track record of successfully overcoming technical and security objections. Problem solving is in your DNA!
What We Offer:
- A collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and industry-leading practices.
- The chance to work with a diverse and talented team of professionals.
About Searce
What is ‘searce’
Searce means ‘a fine sieve’ & indicates ‘to refine, to analyze, to improve’. It signifies our way of working: To improve to the finest degree of excellence, ‘solving for better’ every time. Searcians are passionate improvers & solvers who love to question the status quo.
The primary purpose of all of us, at Searce, is driving intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes using new-age technology. This purpose is driven passionately by HAPPIER people who aim to become better, everyday.