Bloomin Brands Careers

Tampa, Florida, United States

Cloud Technical Architect

Posted over 1 month ago

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Job Description

At Bloomin Brands we are innovating and transforming the customer journey across digital and physical channels and redefining how we interact and excite our guests, engaging on their terms and the medium of their choosing. Cloud Architecture is a critical driver of this transformation, enabling cloud-based application architectures, data management capabilities, and integration strategies that ensure seamless connections between hybrid cloud and on-premises based applications.


We are seeking a full-time, experienced Cloud Technical Architect to collaborate with other architects to design and implement robust, efficient, highly scalable, and cost-effective cloud-based solutions. This key role will partner closely with teammates, architects, and DevSecOps engineers to elevate our cloud maturity while collaboratively supporting the operations of our Agile development teams.


Responsibilities:


* Participate in architectural design meetings in support of key IT and Digital capabilities

* Contribute ideas that leverage past development and solutions architecture experience

* Develop and implement governance policies around cloud infrastructure and data security initiatives

* Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from cloud

* Selecting the appropriate cloud service based on compute, data, budget, and security requirements

* Identifying appropriate use of cloud-based operational best practices

* Ensure that costs are managed and inline with a tight budget

* Estimating usage costs, identifying operational cost control mechanisms, and driving cost-efficiencies

* Constructing and editing architectural diagrams that accurately reflect solution design

* Deploying, managing, automating, operating, and securing scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems in a hybrid cloud environment


Desired Experience/Education:

* Demonstrable recent experience as a technical architect

* 6+ years of experience developing cloud-based applications

* Strong technical knowledge of PaaS, IaaS service models

* Strong understanding of architectural design patterns, concepts, and best practices

* Experience with Service Fabric and Containers

* Experience with Event Driven Architecture, SOA, Microservices and Serverless Computing

* Expert level understanding of modern object-oriented programming languages

* PowerShell/Bash with knowledge of IaC technologies including ARM templates and Terraform

* Understanding of application scaling to support increases in traffic

* Recent experience in a collaborative Agile working environment (Scrum preferred)

* Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)

* Experience in provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running in the cloud

* Must be able to work on multiple projects and consistently meet project deadlines


Other Desired Skills / Certifications:

* Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert (preferred) or MCSD Azure Solutions Developer

* Experience with CMS platforms, E-Commerce, and digital payments

* Familiarity with Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Cosmos DB and Data Lake (Gen 2 Storage)

* Experience in Windows / Linux Virtualization environments, Networking

* Experience with Visual Studio, GIT and ServiceNow

* Interpersonal and communication skills, able to build rapport and communicate effectively at all levels and across disciplines

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

* Detail-oriented, strong work ethic and high standard of excellence

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