Lead Cloud Solutions Architect

Princeton University’s Office of Information Technology is extending our cloud planning and migration efforts to shift the hosting of our Administrative and Academic applications portfolio from on-premise to Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).   

The Lead Cloud Solutions Architect, reporting to the Associate CIO for Software and Application Services within the Office of Information Technology, will lead these efforts in collaboration and cooperation with our academic and administrative offices, and our OIT peers.  This position will be responsible for assessing our application portfolio, refining the vision, planning the projects, designing and implementing cloud environments, and working with product owners, OIT leaders, and development teams to manage the migration of our 140+ on-premise application stacks into Azure and OCI. 

Leadership, Analysis and Planning

• Play a leadership role in Princeton University’s cloud migration efforts.
• Discover and document on-premises legacy application dependencies.
• Analyze and document application gaps for cloud readiness.
• Design and implement the Azure/OCI infrastructure and security framework.
• Advise and assist development teams with refactoring on-premises applications.
  

Project Management

• Group and schedule applications for concurrent migration to the cloud.
• Develop and implement a detailed roadmap for the migration process.
  

DevOps

• Design and implement cloud-centric CI/CD development processes for Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure development processes using Puppet, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Templates, and OCI.
  

Strategic

• Understand and integrate OIT’s complex Service Oriented paradigm in the organization of our cloud application infrastructure.
• Commit to and enable the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices for all of our cloud administrative and operational responsibilities.
  

Operational

• Build into the cloud infrastructure basic operational necessities:
  • Monitoring, Alerting, Logging, Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Operational Continuity.
• Lead in the development and documentation of ongoing operational procedures.
  

Essential Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud planning and leadership experience in a comparable environment.
• 3+ years of direct experience developing solutions in Azure including proven success in Azure design, implementation, support, and operations for a large-scale IT operation.
• 5+ years in an application architect/developer role for complex 3-tier applications.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-303, AZ-304), Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500).
• Demonstrated expertise with cloud-centric CI/CD best practices.
• Demonstrated expertise with a wide range of Azure services including:
  • Active Directory
  • Azure Storage
  • Networking
  • Database
  • Web Applications
  • Containers and Kubernetes
  • Event Hub
  • Key Vault
• Ability to work with a team of varying backgrounds and responsibilities. Must be a strong mentor.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple simultaneous complex initiatives and projects.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, both with regard to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and/or Computer Science, or comparable experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• One or more years of direct experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience and proven expertise in intrusion detection and remediation.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Experience with DevOps tools including:
  • Git
  • Nexus
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Puppet

 

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