Infrastructure Architect

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

Cloud Architect Role & Responsibilities

Overview: The 3Cloud Architect is primarily responsible for providing technical delivery leadership on client engagements, lead the architectural design sessions with the client, provide regular coaching and guidance to peers that help with the implementation, manage client expectations all while cultivating a collaborative and inclusive team culture. The Cloud Architect role provides a career path for Sr. Cloud Engineers and Cloud Engineers that are aspiring to lead and guide client engagements from end to end.  

People Development in Project

• Cloud Architects are responsible for providing technical oversight and guidance for those younger in career team members that are learning the 3Cloud approach to infrastructure engagements
• Serve as coach in a player-coach model to help support the upskilling of team members and helping them build their confidence infrastructure delivery

• Help foster and build relationships between cloud infrastructure teams (delivery, delivery excellence, and solution architecture) as well as outside of the practice

Delivery Support Activities

• Function as technical delivery oversight with strong consultative skills on multiple client engagements
• Partner up with Delivery Excellence to ensure project milestones are aligned to a project plan that is inclusive of capturing key client decisions
• Broad deep technical knowledge across Azure technologies inclusive of: Log Analytics (KQL), Application Insights, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure Security, Azure Networking (App Gateways, Front Door, Firewall, VWAN), Azure Storage, Azure Automation (IaC), Azure Sentinel, App Services, Containers (AKS), Managed Instances, Azure SQL, Azure DNS, Azure Virtual Desktop + Nerdio, Azure Files

• Have a strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure solutions and the delivery/execution of how they are implemented using IaC (Bicep or Terraform)
• Help the delivery team reach billable targets by assisting with breaking through project blockers
• Help facilitate change orders and project extensions when in-flight projects call for it
• Help drive alignment where there are technical mesh points between other 3Cloud practice areas by providing technical oversight and direction
• Keep apprised of the latest technologies and how they may impact existing 3Cloud offerings

• Have obtained the AZ-305 Cloud Architect certification

Business Development Leadership

• Gain exposure to other 3Cloud offerings in other practice areas to help position in existing infrastructure engagements
• Identify new Cloud Infrastructure & Security solution opportunities and raise them up
• 3Cloud Community leadership and support

• Lead and guide the infrastructure offerings committees that define and drive forward standard offerings for our practice

Lever Factors That Help Grow Our Business

• Reach trusted advisor within multiple accounts, which then help support the growth of existing customer accounts in a ‘Land & Expand’ approach helps us keep our people billing on engagements where we are doing awesome work
• Lead and guide multiple engagements that help enable our infrastructure team to scale out
• Help support teammates with unblocking engagements and remediating possible escalations before they happen

• Create reusable artifacts and content that enable our team members to bill their time to our clients

Individual Targets

• Maintain 86% Utilization target (36 hours a week)
• Help peers break through technical blockers and maintain strong utilization
• Coach, mentor, and train younger in-career team members

• Participate in a minimum of one CI&O offering committee and one CoP

Team KPIs

• Help the Team Achieve a Revenue Target of $27M

3Cloud Total Rewards Highlights Include: 

• Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work! 
• 401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay 
• Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days 
• Three medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you! 
• Option for vision and dental coverage 
• 100% employer premium coverage for STD and LTD 
• Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents 
• Option for FSA, HSA, HRA and Dependent Care 
• $67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance
• Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role 
• Robust Employee Assistance Program to help with everyday challenges 

Don’t meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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