Cloud Architect

Our Company

At FirstBank PR , we strive to be a trusted advisor to our clients and our employees are the ones that ensure we deliver on our promise of excellence in personalized customer service. Our more than 3,100 employees in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Florida share a passion for excellent customer service. We are proud of our team because they are continuously surpassing our client’s expectations.

Do you have a passion for helping customers, building relationships, and delivering extraordinary, personalized customer service? If your answer is yes, FirstBank is the number one place for you.

A Brief Overview

The IT/Cloud Solutions Architect will design, deploy, and migrate systems for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. The solutions architect is responsible for identification and selection of appropriate cloud services based on requirements and constraints, has deep subject matter expertise, and can evaluate new technologies for fit in current infrastructure architecture.

What you’ll do

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of company’s strategic business plans.

• Provide architectural consulting expertise, direction, and assistance to systems analysts, IT cloud engineers, and other systems architects.

• Document and develop in-depth knowledge of company’s existing IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio.

• Develop and manage an IT cloud infrastructure capacity plan.

• Develop, document, communicate, and enforce a cloud technology standards policy.

• Conduct research on emerging cloud technologies in support of infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.

• Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in IT cloud infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.

• Design, develop, and oversee implementation of end-to-end IT cloud integrated systems.

• Develop and execute test plans to check IT cloud infrastructure and systems technical performance. Report on findings and make recommendations for improvement.

  What You’ll Need to Succeed

  Formal Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis or a related field.

• Certifications like Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate are a Plus.

  Knowledge and Experience

• 3-5 years work experience as a cloud architect preferable in Microsoft Azure.

• Understanding of Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

• Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage. Knowledge in Azure App Service.

• Understanding of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) preferable MS SQL Server and Oracle Database.

• Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) including Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.

• Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems.

• Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems.

• Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (CDN).

• Hands-on experience with core LAN/WAN network technologies.

• Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP and OSI Network.

• Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON and gRPC.

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

• Work experience with information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools.

• Awareness of end-user computing and collaborative technologies.

• Large-scale distributed systems architecture.

• System performance tuning.

• Information and application security concepts including public key encryption, remote access, access credentials, and certificate-based authentication.

• Knowledge of cloud cost controls.

• Excellent English and Spanish written and verbal communication skills

  First Bank Puerto Rico is a proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and takes affirmative action to employ Women, Protected Veterans, People with Disabilities and Minorities regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected status.