Job Description :
Job Title: Cloud Technologies Consultant
Location: San Jose, CA
Duration: 6+months
Rate: DOE
Job Description:
Work Location : San Jose, CA
Job Description :
This person will serve as a subject-matter expert and thought leader who will implement and operationalize methodologies to improve quality for Cloud and SaaS products. The methodologies and strategy will be utilized by several Business Units to improve operational efficiency and improve quality, performance and availability metrics.
Will be responsible for helping various software engineering teams manage their cloud applications in AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and OpenStack. You will collaborate with several teams including product development and engineering, InfoSec, IT, Service Providers (e.g. AWS, Rackspace), Customer Success, Technical Services, and Finance.
Expert in cloud technology and have extensive experience in architecting, defining, and managing performance and quality of full end-to-end Cloud and SaaS solutions.
The position’s preferred qualifications and skills include:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is a must.
* 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance in a thought leader or quality transformation lead role; involvement in product development or production quality software for the entire product life cycle
* Trusted advisor on cloud architecture best practices and cloud design patterns with full stack knowledge
* Expert level knowledge on all cloud core services offered by the top cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
* Industry knowledge on modern software quality as it relates to the cloud
* Ability to communicate clearly and precisely technical concepts and design recommendations to engineering audience as well as executives
* Preferred experience with implementing or developing load and performance test tools as well as Build Tools, CI/CD, DevOps and Agile principals
* Preferred experience with or be comfortable quickly becoming familiar with our technology stack which includes GCE, docker, kubernetes, nginx, go, SaltStack
Other responsibilities of this position include:
* Gathering quality assessment requirements for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS products
* Driving industry best practices and provide recommendations for quality improvement that will be leveraged by several Business Units to standardize and improve performance of cloud services
* Communicating proposals, methodologies, strategies and status to Executives
* Assisting with designing, deploying and managing development and maintenance of Cloud infrastructure and software stack
* Documenting business and technical requirements, assessing capabilities and analyzing findings to provide appropriate cloud quality and performance KPIs and measures to business users
* Converting technical, business, and product requirements into use and test cases
* Defining Cloud Quality Strategy by recommending cloud metrics, tools, and techniques to increase performance, security, automation and scalability, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
* Researching, analyzing, recommending and selecting technical approaches for solving customer issues related to licensing, install, upgrade, and renewal of SaaS offerings