Principal Cloud Engineer / Cloud Architect (Remote in Germany)

About our group:

We are the Lyve Cloud organization focusing on next-gen cloud, storage, security and user experience. We build software products from the edge to the cloud. If you are a visionary architecture leader with a passion for driving innovation in the enterprise systems, data storage services space, we encourage you to apply for this role and be part of our journey to transform the industry.

About the role - you will:

We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and customer focused Cloud Architect to join our Lyve organization. The candidate should have a strong technical background in distributed systems design, cloud engineering approaches, should be a hands on leader with exceptional organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills. The right candidate should have a demonstrable track record of successfully developing cloud architecture frameworks, designing, and delivering modern cloud data platform solutions, cloud migrations, cloud-native solutions and helped drive Cloud Practice growth

We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated excellence in development architectures for S3 cloud platforms, building, and leading a team of technical cloud architects and engineers and delivering transformational business outcomes in production with proven examples.

• Define overall architecture of the Lyve Cloud.
• Stay abreast of cloud technology trends, advancements, and best practices.
• Foster engineering culture. Build and maintain architecture artifacts, design processes and best practices, provide technical oversight to architects and engineers.
• Prototype solutions and develop proof-of-concept.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.

About you:

• Experienced with agile development process and methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of cloud service engineering stack, cloud technology trends, cloud development tools, cloud migration and management. 
• Deep understanding of distributed architectures, containers and serverless technologies
• Hands on with CI/CD, Sre, cloud tooling, DevOps, Networking and testing approaches
• Proven hands on experience with large scale distributed technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, K8S, Chef, Splunk, Elastic, and Hadoop. 
• Hands on coding experience in the following languages: GoLang, Java, C/C++, Python, etc.  
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.  
• Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders 
• Strong relationship management skills . 
• Fast learner on both technical and business side 
• Strong customer centric mindset. 
• Comfortable operating in a matrix setup 
• Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.
• Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify decisions and apply key learnings. 
• Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities. 
• Excellent verbal and written communications and presentations skills
• Use technical expertise and visionary capabilities to ensure the Lyve cloud platform services are a key differentiator for Seagate, you will drive the engineering vision and strategy for how the platform is designed and delivered  
•  Understand the business domain and product vision; in partnership with other team members to align the work of the team toward the shared goals for the product.  
• Support team members in addressing or escalating issues to make the overall team more efficient. 
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Your experience includes:

• Coach and evaluate the performance and quality of work delivered by team members, create a motivating and respectful work environment for teams, and ensure that your team is constantly learning and delivering quality code while driving cross-functional alignment with other parts of Lyve organization. 
• Provide relevant technical coaching and support to team members. Hires talent and actively engages in recruiting processes. 
• Participate in the development of business and/or technology vision, strategies, critical success factors, and operating plans for application, unit, or platform. 
• Strong track record of delivering results and are able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities with various stakeholders 
• Experience leading Architecture/Principal level engineers
• Experience leading cloud utilization optimization efforts 
• Experience leading cloud security architects and compliance efforts
• Lead by example to establish a culture of technical expertise and operational accountability
• Sponsor and support cloud governance initiatives, establishing standards, cost monitoring, and security/compliance efforts 
• Identify and prioritize technical initiatives to align and integrate with business goals 

Location:

Remote in Germany 

Location: Remote Germany
Travel: None