Cloud Architect, Taguig

NCS is a leading AI Tech Services company. With a 15,000-strong team across the Asia Pacific, NCS scales its platforms and capabilities to provide clients with greater agility and AI expertise across a range of industries. Embracing a strong ecosystem of global partners, NCS transforms technology services delivery combining AI with digital resilience to drive real business impact. NCS is a subsidiary of the Singtel Group.

General Responsibilities:

The Cloud Architect is responsible for providing support in designing, deploying, and overseeing the company and client’s cloud computing strategy but not limited to cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management, and monitoring. The Cloud Solutions Architect oversees application architecture and deployment in cloud environments.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Supports the customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding.
• Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap.
• Architects solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments while orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud-native, etc.) as deemed necessary.
• Ensures that all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Develops good relationships with key customer IT decision-makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Shares insights, best practices, and connects with Engineering teams to remove key blockers.
• Assesses the customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners.
• Develops complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Maintains technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborates and shares with the technical community.
• Promotes Azure Platform with customers, partners, and external communities.
• Provides operational support of existing data center and middleware technologies, e.g. – servers, databases, backup/recovery.
• Proactively identify new and emerging technology solutions to support business excellence.
• Incorporates existing enterprise technology standards, security, and capabilities into solutions as applicable
• Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time.