Enterprise Architect: IT and Cloud - Derivco

We are trailblazers. We are innovative. We have technology running in our veins. Do we tick your boxes? Do you want to play a part in taking gaming technology to the next level? If yes, we’re looking for you!

This is your opportunity to be part of the leading software house in the online gaming world. In our space, passionate, innovative and incredibly awesome teams create the best technology in the field, and each day is a chance to level up.

Are you an experienced or aspiring Cloud Architect with a passion for realizing ideas and business demands into innovative architectural solutions?

Who are we?

• Our culture is DevOps based with current tooling such as Azure DevOps, GIT, Visual Studio, VS Code.
• We have a hybrid technology stack with an on-prem and cloud footprint. Our infrastructure stack on-prem includes VMware, Hashicorp, Cisco, f5, SQL Server, Kafka, Kubernetes. We run Windows Server and RHEL operating systems. Our environment is multicloud with workloads in Azure and AWS.
• Our systems are Enterprise scale processing thousands of transactions per second, geographically distributed and running 24/7. 

What do we do?

A day in the life of a Derivco Cloud Architect typically includes the following:

• Conceiving and communicating designs for large scale and/or business-critical systems.
• Providing expert guidance and consultancy to teams facing tough technical challenges.
• Identifying and driving initiatives to improve our software at a system-wide level.
• Researching and realizing innovative new technologies or ideas.
• Mentoring.

What do you need?

General:

• Ability to wrestle complexity into structure
• A great verbal and written communicator of technical topics to a wide audience of roles
• Solid technical foundation across a wide range of topics

Specific skills and experience:

• At least 8 years technical expertise in one or more of the following technologies: Azure (fundamentals including networking), VMware, vSAN, NSX-T (SDN fundamentals), AWS (fundamentals), Nginx, HAProxy, Kafka, Kubernetes (fundamentals)
• At least 5 years of expertise architecting systems of substantial complexity (tens of thousands of online users, thousands of transactions per second, 24/7 availability)
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of a range of technical disciplines and techniques (client, server, database, message brokers, DevOps, high availability, scalability) … and how to harness this knowledge into well-architected, scalable cloud solutions which satisfy business strategy.
• Understanding of hybrid cloud considerations
• Understanding of different architectural patterns and application design patterns
• Undergraduate diploma/degree (preferred)
• TOGAF certified (preferred)