As part of the Amadeus Hospitality Technology Operations Technological Architecture team, the Cloud Architect will be responsible for working with technology teams to design and implement various cloud infrastructure within the Amadeus Hospitality ecosystem. The Cloud Architect works closely with Technical Project Managers, Architects, Network, Platform, SRE and DBA engineering teams to ensure that the architected solutions are well designed, implemented and operationalized. The Cloud Architect assists in creating business cases and completing solution analysis to integrate new solutions within the ecosystem. Evaluate, create and present architecture and system design in order to bring solutions to the market. Participate actively within the Engineering and Technology Architecture community and provide guidance to leadership to make informed strategic decisions on product operations and development.

Main responsibilities

• Facilitate proof of concepts to help drive operational enablement of emerging technologies. The outcome should be recommended patterns for adoption or declining use using non-functional requirements for guidance.

• Assist in defining and driving strategic vision for the Cloud environment ecosystem

• Enable various teams to work within standards by specifying approved tools and technologies

• Develop and maintain vendor relationships for new and existing technologies.

• Recommend, procure and support educational participation across operations for technical enablement of teams embracing new technology.

• May participate in or supervise embedded teams in larger enterprise projects as required to meet strategic initiatives.

• Determine and prioritize processes for recoverability, fail-over, disaster recovery, and business continuity

• Participate in specifying operational objectives including SLA's and KPI's for availability, performance and security.

• Determine RTO and RPO objectives and devise strategies for improvement.

• Participate in architectural design with other team members and software architects. Encourage shared and common design practices.

• Provide technical escalation support across the deployed platforms, liaise with development, support, infrastructure, and security as required.

• Provide technical direction and clarification of requirements to software agile development teams, integration, and testing staff.

Education

• Degree in computer science and/or 7+ years of relevant work experience

• Azure architect-level certifications are an asset

Relevant work experience

• 7+ years of experience designing and implementing solutions for various Azure services

• Experience analyzing, documenting and presenting architecture solutions to stakeholders at all levels of the enterprise

• Experience designing and implementing hybrid cloud technologies to support cloud migrations

• Experience working in high availability, heavy transactional environments.

• Experience automating deployment of applications using desired state configuration, PowerShell, or other automation languages.

• Experience with information security and access management philosophies.

Business understanding

• Understanding of Hospitality systems and integration is an asset

Skills
Cloud computing:

• Working experience designing and deploying Azure cloud compute, storage and PaaS

• Hands-on experience with web traffic management (CDN, IP and DNS Load Balancing) patterns

• Knowledge of version control, CI/CD concepts and tooling (Azure DevOps, TFS, Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD)

• Containers and container orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes platforms such AKS/EKS/GKS/OpenShift)

• Working knowledge of microservices patterns

• Deep understanding of zonal/regional availability concepts and trade-offs

• Strong understanding of Azure Active Directory and IAM

Operating systems:

• Windows Server, Linux (Redhat, Oracle Linux), VMware ESXi

Networking:

• Knowledge of routing, subnetting, L7 firewalling and network troubleshooting

Specific knowledge

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to summarize complex concepts, information and risks for non-technical audiences

• Ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements and develop alternate solutions

• Strong knowledge of and adherence to development methodologies, standards, and best practices

Working at Amadeus, you will find

A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.

A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.

Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.

A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.

A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

A flexible working model - We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.

A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.

A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.

Diversity & Inclusion

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