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Practice Lead - Cloud
Toronto, OntarioOur client is a tech-service provider unifying people, technology, and business to help brands grow and increase profitability.
The role
The Cloud & DevOps Practice Lead will be a key resource in growing the Cloud & DevOps business. The candidate will take ownership of the practice, direct the strategy & organizational capacity building, key priorities, and decisions. This entails accountability for the practice, including driving sales, account management, recruitment, thought leadership and responsibility for all technical & operational aspects.
Skills Required
The role
The Cloud & DevOps Practice Lead will be a key resource in growing the Cloud & DevOps business. The candidate will take ownership of the practice, direct the strategy & organizational capacity building, key priorities, and decisions. This entails accountability for the practice, including driving sales, account management, recruitment, thought leadership and responsibility for all technical & operational aspects.
Skills Required
- BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Master’s degree is a plus in a related field.
- Expert level cloud architect certifications required (AWS or Microsoft).
- 15+ total years of experience in IT services/technology and at least 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing technologies, concepts and Cloud consulting, in the areas of Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Global Cloud technologies.
- 5+ years of experience in IT or Technology sales roles with good communication skills, proven experience of managing business relations with clients and customers.
- Extensive knowledge of the software development landscape and experience changing the software development lifecycle.
- Ability to appropriately target information across technical audiences, clients and executive leaders.
- Intimate familiarity with architecting solutions on cloud computing platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Proven experience of architecting, deploying, managing and optimizing solutions on public cloud such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and or private Cloud like VMware and Openstack with major open source DevOps tools experience.
- Extensive experience with various tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, TFS, Subversion, Git, Docker and configuration management tools Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform. Chef is preferred.
- Proficient in one or more scripting languages including Shell, PHP and/or Python.
- Proficient in one or more of the following monitoring and logging tools: Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Logstash, Graphite, Splunk. Splunk is preferred.
- Possess a bias for action when breaking down complex problems and tackling new technologies.
- Thought leader on Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) in the software engineering process and can clearly articulate how any given DevOps approach facilitates these practices to drive business goals.