Lead Cloud Architect

ColombiaFull-TimeLeadOther

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Important Information

  • Location: Colombia
  • Work Mode: Hybrid

Responsibilities and Duties

  • Lead end-to-end migration strategies from VMware environments to AWS Outposts and Red Hat OpenShift, defining rehost, replatform, or refactor approaches aligned with enterprise architecture standards
  • Design and implement highly available and scalable OpenShift clusters across hybrid on-premises and AWS environments, ensuring proper integration with networking, storage, and disaster recovery architectures
  • Drive application modernization initiatives including containerization, CI/CD implementation, and Infrastructure-as-Code automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
  • Provide architectural leadership, guide migration teams, conduct design reviews, enforce security and governance standards, and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues

Qualifications and Skills

  • 12+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, VMware, Linux, or Platform Engineering within large enterprise environments
  • Strong hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift including installation, cluster design, operations, and troubleshooting
  • Proven experience leading VMware-to-AWS migration programs, including hybrid cloud and AWS Outposts deployments
  • Deep knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware, vCenter, NSX, Hyper-V, and hybrid networking solutions including Cisco ACI and Viptela
  • Advanced understanding of AWS services including VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, and Load Balancers within hybrid architectures
  • Strong Linux administration skills (RHEL) with solid experience in enterprise storage technologies such as Ceph, ODF, CSM, and ASM
  • Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks
  • Experience defining and implementing disaster recovery strategies across applications, databases, and infrastructure layers
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills with experience collaborating across cross-functional and global teams

Job Summary

CompanyEncora
LocationColombia
TypeFull-Time
LevelLead
DomainOther
Lead Cloud Architect at Encora (Colombia) | WorkWay