Vendavo Overview:
Vendavo is the leading provider of price management and optimization solutions for business-to-business companies worldwide. Vendavo solutions (On-premise, Mobile and SAAS) include comprehensive pricing analysis, optimization, price setting, and deal execution capabilities that help companies improve profits through the art of science and big data. Leading companies across chemicals, high-tech, industrial manufacturing, and distribution industries leverage Vendavo solutions to drive higher profits. We’re making a difference in business, and we’re looking for energetic, talented professionals to grow our team. If you are someone who is driven to make a global impact and believes in a culture of mutual respect, with focus on customer success, then you need to join us here at Vendavo!
Position Overview:
As Vendavo expands into new product and market segments, we are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Architect. You will be working closely with our Product Development, Cloud Services, Customer Engagement and Customer Support. You will be a key member of a team of highly skilled individuals that are passionate about delivering technology solutions to solve business and end-user needs. You will be part of the team that enables Vendavo to enter a new phase of growth!
As a Cloud Architect, you will:
- Liaise with management, solution architects, solution engineers, developers and third-party solution providers to ensure the project meets the needs of the organization and our customers
- Create, improve and maintain automated systems for code compilation, testing, and deployment
- Provide non-production & production support and problem solving
- Manage virtual machines, IaaS in our Azure, AWS and Oracle Cloud Platforms
- Be highly focused on rapid deployment, automation and process improvement
- Setting up and maintaining mission-critical production environments
- Work closely with our Performance Engineering team to identify system and database performance bottlenecks and
- provide tuning and design suggestions
- Work with customers through our support team to help identify system and database performance issues with our products and provide recommended solutions
- Perform in depth analysis of customer’s infrastructure and provide actionable performance improvement plans
- Consult on technical environment and hardware configuration decisions
- Develop techniques to improve system performance and optimize hardware utilization
- Improve system performance through implementing recommended hardware changes
- Improve software systems efficiency through implementing better utilization of operating system capabilities
- Assess risks and mitigation strategies within the architecture that has an impact on the business
- Monitor industry trends to ensure that solutions are in line with industry best practices
- Create documentation in compliance with standard operating procedures
- Manage project expectations, resources, and timelines
- Perform other responsibilities as needed to help manage the build and delivery of our software solutions
What you need to be successful in this role:
- Extensive IT industry experience – working with enterprise customers in a customer facing role
- Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and clearly to all levels of management.
- Strong service attitude; builds lasting customer relationships, strives for efficiency and effectiveness
- Commitment to Quality Standards and continuous improvement.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced team-oriented environment
- Experience working with teams spread across various geographical locations
- Experience with Unix/Linux and Windows based environments
- Experience with scripting (Bash, Shell, Power Shell, etc.)
- Experience with Git
- Experience in automation (Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
- Experience with Configuring and building elaborate monitoring and log aggregation (ELK, Icinga, Nagios, Prometheus)
- Experience with Containerisation - Kubernates
- Expertise in automation and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Rundeck)
- Experience with Cloud technologies (cloud platforms)
- Database experience would be a bonus (MySql, Oracle, MSSQL)
- Personal accountability and strong communication skills
- Strong desire to acquire and master new skills
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP network and experience of setting up network equipment such as switches, routers and firewalls
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations to support an always-up, always-available service
Why you will like working at Vendavo:
- Working within a team of young and highly skilled people
- Professional and personal trainings
- Flexible working hours
- Friendly atmosphere based on our company culture
- Standard company benefits
