Cloud Consultant

Why SoftwareOne? SoftwareOne is a leading global software and cloud solutions provider that is redefining how companies build, buy and manage everything in the cloud. By helping clients to migrate and modernize their workloads and applications – and in parallel, to navigate and optimize the resulting software and cloud changes – SoftwareOne unlocks the value of technology.

The company's 8,900 employees are driven to deliver a portfolio of 7,500 software brands with sales and delivery capabilities in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, SoftwareOne is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SWON.Visit us at

The role

Develop Enterprise Cloud solutions, lead delivery teams in customer workshops, and coordinate with multiple stakeholders in client hierarchy to engage, understand and articulate requirements to create solutions. Has expertise in one or more Public Cloud provider technologies and is capable of embedding these capabilities into existing or new cloud-based infrastructure and platform solutions. As a cloud architect, you will engage with clients to define and design the cloud technology architecture and solution architecture.

You will also define application and IT Architecture focusing on the mapping of Business requirements to IT Capabilities and align the same. The focus is to define the integrations between Applications, Data, and Technology in the Enterprise and the Transitional Process necessary for migration and modernizing to cloud-based architecture that includes APIs, microservices, and containers. You will keep yourself updated with the latest technology trends and architectural styles and suggest leveraging modern digital technologies to cater to business needs.

Recognized as an Expert in their technology and architecture field, you will guide cloud objectives and technologies. What we need to see from you

Define end-to-end Enterprise and Cloud-based Architecture catering to client needs and requirements. Analyze complex application landscapes, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess potential solutions, impacts, and risks to propose a cloud roadmap, solution architecture, and associated TCO.Develop and implement cloud architecture solutions based on Azure, and knowledge of AWS and/or GCP is an added advantage when assigned to work on delivery projects. Analyze client requirements, propose overall application modernization, migrations, and greenfield implementations, and should be able to execute those projects as a technical consultant.

Experience in implementing and deploying a DevOps-based, end-to-end cloud application. Lead teams for a discovery and architecture workshop, influence client architects, and IT personnel. Guide other architects working with you in the team.

Adapt communications and approaches to conclude technical scope discussions with various partners, resulting in common agreements. Deliver an optimized infrastructure services design leveraging public, private, and hybrid Cloud architectures and services. Act as subject matter and implementation expert for the client as related to technical architecture and implementation of proposed solutions using Cloud Services.

Implement solutions using Azure Cloud Services, open source, and other 3rd party technologies. Create and develop process frameworks, documents, SOPs, cookbooks, automation scripts/tools for Cloud Discovery, Migrations, Application Modernization, DevSecOps, and Services transitions to cloud. Experience in developing Terraform/IaC, PowerShell, CLI, Jenkins, Ansible templates.

Lead internal and external initiatives to standardize, automate, and develop competitive assets and accelerators. Technical Experience:Knowledge on creating IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions in Azure Platform that meet customer needs for scalability, reliability, and performance. Experienced in delivering large/medium scale enterprise solutions using Microservices, APIs, Containerization, Kubernetes, App modernization, Cloud IaaS & PaaS.Understanding of WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, VPN, Virtual Networking, Subnet, Routing, Storage account/management, and Infrastructure as a Service.

Experience in creating systems logical view, network diagrams, and able to build automated solutions for server builds, resource monitoring. Knowledge and experience in delivering solutions using middleware integration technologies using SOA, ESB, API platforms, API Security. Experience in design, development, and architecture of Java/JEE/.

NET based systems. Ability to assess multiple types of operating systems (AIX, Linux, Windows, etc.) and databases (Azure Data Factory, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MySQL, MS SQL, NoSQL, DB2, Oracle, and MongoDB) to develop transformation approaches and solutions. Worked on Cloud Administration tasks: Creating resource groups, storage accounts, etc.

Professional Attributes:Strategic thinker, have the ability to grasp new technologies, innovate, develop, and nurture new solutions. Experience in driving consulting workshops, creating content of workshops in short deadlines to C-levels. Demonstrate thought leadership, create good impacts in engagements, manage time and demonstrate flexibility by adapting to situations.

An ability to follow processes. Strong documentation skills. Good communication skills both written and verbal with the client.

Certifications: Microsoft Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert / Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert / AWS Solution Architect Associate & Professional / GCP Professional / TOGAF, ITIL.Job FunctionSoftware & Cloud