Cloud Solution Architect Manager

About the role

PwC Southeast Asia Consulting is looking for a Cloud Solution Architect Manager to represent PwC as workstream lead for cloud architecture and engineering. The role works with customers to understand their current infrastructure, applications, databases and APIs, then defines the future state of their cloud environment. It is a hands-on delivery role that also involves mentoring juniors, pre-sales support and engagement with public sector and financial institution clients across Southeast Asia.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the cloud architecture and engineering workstream and act as the technical cloud subject matter expert for the client
• Own architecture design and planning, and deliver hands-on implementation
• Craft cloud strategy, run cloud migration assessments and present outcomes
• Manage the migration engineering team: drive meetings and reviews, advise engineers and be available for hands-on work
• Prepare, review and present documentation
• Mentor juniors and build a team
• Take part in pre-sales and proposal development
• Advise customers on best practices and take part in cloud conversations with public sector and financial institutions across Southeast Asia

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or foreign equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of experience implementing private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions
• At least five completed cloud implementations (migration or greenfield)
• Experience designing multi-cloud services
• Strong background in Linux/Unix and/or Windows administration
• Understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP) and cloud security and network boundary controls
• Understanding of agile software development and DevOps concepts
• Scripting in Python, Java, JavaScript and/or C#.NET
• Enterprise Architect certification preferred; Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert or AWS Solution Architect Professional certifications preferred

Required skills

• AWS and Azure cloud concepts and hands-on experience with cloud services
• Infrastructure as Code with Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Container management and cloud-native patterns