Principal Cloud Systems Infrastructure Architect

Overview

I n 2025, we are pursuing our ambitions to continue to enable organizations' digital transformation. We are looking for our new Principal Cloud Systems Infrastructure Architect to join Axway's family. Are you ready? Join us now!!

Together, we can. Together, we will. Axway is an enterprise integration company that's been around for over 20 years to digitally transform businesses of all sizes with more than 11,000 customers in 100 countries. Axway revitalizes IT infrastructures to enable brilliant digital customer experiences to unlock new business innovation and capabilities. Axway puts companies on a secure, future-proof path for growth.

With Axway, you'll go far because we're better together. You'll exchange ideas with a culturally rich global community of over 1,550 members who connect remotely or show up onsite in every time zone. And you'll have the support and camaraderie of your Axway leadership and colleagues to remind you that you're not alone on your journey and have taken one more step forward every day. Together, we can accomplish anything. Learn more: www.axway.com.

Axway is currently seeking a Pricnipal Cloud Systems Architect who has a high level of technical expertise in industry leading Infrastructure as Services (IaaS) providers like AWS and Azure services. They will have a proven track record of helping organizations to implement and operate mission critical production workloads on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud and hybrid (Axway Managed Cloud and Sass) based infrastructure solutions that includes both virtualized compute and storage.
• Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions that span the managed cloud and hybrid environments in AWS and Azure.
• Design and implement VPCs to deploy mission critical production applications using AWS and Azure infrastructure services.
• Provide Technical Leadership for customer onboarding projects and work with Customers to establish G2C, C2C network connectivity options.
• Install, configure, implement and support Windows/Linux servers including management of user/group accounts & policies, integration to Active Directory, Azure Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
• Manage the patching regime of all systems.
• Manage the global hosting asset/inventory and perform lifecycle planning and execution.
• Manage monitoring systems such as Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Manage other hosting related technologies such as proxy/web filtering, load balancers, WAF, backup and replication solutions, and so forth as DRBD, GlusterFS, EFS, etc.
• Provide L3 support for the cloud team on Azure, AWS, Storage, Networking, Linux platforms.
• Monitoring platforms Prometheus, Filebeat, Loki-Stack, Icinga, etc.
• Define SOPs and participate in Audits and DR activities.
• Ensure all solutions comply to corporate security policies and standards.
• Gather design requirements from stakeholders (e.g., Business and application groups) and translate into functional and technical requirements.
• Automate repeatable operations activities to optimize delivery time.
• Able to perform Capacity Planning on customer environment on Managed Cloud and provide recommendations for improving availability and cost optimization.
• Manage the lifecycle of all requests and incidents that arise, driving for root cause of problems to prevent incidents from recurring.
• Participate in after-hours support (on call) and scheduled implementation activities as required.
  
  

Qualifications

• 9+ years of Experience with working on AWS Infrastructure services (Architecture/administration/operations)
• Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure services: EC2; EBS; S3; EKS; Route53; IAM; Load balancers; ACM VPN; VPC; Private Link; Transit Gateway; WAF; RDS; Systems Manager; Billing; Trusted Advisor; SSO; Cloud Watch; Cloud Trail; Backup; Lambda.
• Should be proficient in Terraform, Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix OS is must.
• Good working knowledge of Networking concepts and tools: Routing, Switching, Firewall Security, Proxy, Reverse Proxy, HAProxy, Nginx
• Experience in using the tools: GiT, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible
• Experience with System hardening guidelines e.g., CIS, NIST
• Experience with Infrastructure Monitoring tools is required
• Strong knowledge on Kubernetes, Terraform platforms
• Experience in working with Service Management and collaboration tools like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira is preferred
• Require minimal supervision and works well in Production Operations team.
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure on non-routine and highly complex tasks.
• Team player with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a multicultural global teams across the globe (NA, EMEA, APAC)
• Must have customer first mind set
• AWS Solution Architect certification is a plus
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and AWS is required
• Education: Bachelors or Master’s Degree in CS/CE or equivalent