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Ensono

Senior Cloud Design Architect

Ensono, Topeka, Kansas, United States, 66652


Senior Cloud Design ArchitectRemote - United StatesJR010541

Senior Cloud Design Architect

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business.Honesty, reliability, curiosity, collaboration, and passionare thekeyto achieving our purpose.

About the role and what you’ll be doing:

As a Design Assurance Architect, you will be focused on pushing forward technical innovation and transformation within the solution sets we provide. You will work closely with Solution Architects, Consultants, and clients to understand their business drivers and corporate objectives. Design client solutions on Ensono Cloud platform to meet customer requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Collaborate with counterparts in the Sales and Consulting organizations to understand the customer requirements, high level design for Ensono Cloud platform

Create low level design and runbook for operational teams to implement and support.

Create concise and complete documentation that will be used by other teams for execution/reference

Work with Cloud Operations and DevOps team in achieving utmost stability and operational efficiencies.

Participate in discovery and assessment workshops along with resources from consulting, sales and product teams to develop and document Ensono Cloud solution that meets customer requirements.

Meet with Clients on site and/or virtually to gather information for Statements of Work and Client specific solutions

Create reference architecture frameworks and templates for Ensono Cloud clients.

Conduct solution development sessions and present Ensono Cloud solutions and business cases to a wide variety of audience

Gain executives buy in for complex solutions by engaging in executive and senior-level technology discussions.

Align and partner with Product Management to help drive appropriate product enhancements and changes to technology roadmap.

Aid in driving stability and innovation within the client’s current and future state and create solutions based on client requirements and available product offerings

Design, implement and manage networking solutions in the cloud environment, including Cisco ACI, VPCs, subnets, NSX/PA firewall, Load Balancers (AVI, A10, F5) and security.

Configure and troubleshoot network protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS), routing, VPN and load balancing during implementation.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer sciences

Major Industry accreditations / certifications

10+ years of experience as an architect or equivalent in the hosting and network space (preferably with a service provider)

Experience with detailed designing of VMware NSX/VCD based private cloud solutions.

Well versed in the hosting technology landscape including compute, network, security, DevOps and IT governance.

Has experience in technical documentation to capture solution components in a timely manner while ensuring acceptable level of detail, data integrity, and accountability.

Hands on experience in operations and engineering of Hosting and Private Cloud platforms

Experience in automation of Cloud based workload using orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Rundeck

Ability to work in a team environment and demonstrate strong problem solving skills

Proficient with common office applications such as MS Outlook, MS Excel, PowerPoint and MS Visio

Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills (oral, written and presentation)

Preferred Certifications:

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Cisco Certification such as CCNP, CCDP

Why Ensono?

Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.

We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.

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