1 ADP Blvd
Roseland, NJ 07068

 

Responsibilities

• Evangelize the benefits of cloud and container technologies across ADP using multiple forums and communications techniques
• Demonstrate thought leadership in cloud/container services across multiple channels and become a trusted advisor to senior decision makers within ADP
• Work closely with Product Development and Operations teams to design application cloud architectures that are scalable, highly available, and supportable.
• Educate developers on Cloud Native application development and help them in their journey
• Develop and maintain financial models for cloud offerings and continually seek cost optimizations and right sizing opportunities.
• Work closely with ADP’s Global Security Office (GSO) to proactively maintain secure and compliant cloud environments.
• Stay current on new and emerging trends in cloud computing and evaluate their potential for within ADP products. 
• Establish and run a cloud / container community to communicate and publish relevant cloud / container architectural artifacts.
• Work closely with Support and Service teams to identity recurring hosting related issues and champion root cause identification and remediation.
• Ability to be a team player, works effectively with others with positive cooperation.
• Ability to communicate, both internally and externally, in an effective, timely professional and courteous manner.

 

Qualifications

• Broad understanding of industry trends across software development / architecture, cloud operating platforms and data
• Experience in Software Defined Networks (SDN) including the design and automation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities including virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, web sites, data services, etc.
• Experience in the design and development of cloud-native scaled out and distributed applications that leverage microservice architecture, REST APIs, relational and NoSQL stores, some level of networking and system expertise, strong tooling, monitoring, and cloud management experience.
• Experience in the design and implementation of data analytics that leverage Hadoop and predictive analytics systems.
• Experience in building scaled out infrastructure on public clouds like AWS, Google, Azure, etc.
• Strong experience working in small, highly technical teams employing Agile/Scrum practices
• Ability to deliver results in a short time and experience working in fast paced high growth tech companies.
• Proven ability to pull a diverse group of individuals with different goals together to facilitate, moderate, and influence productive discussions driving towards results.
• Experience implementing Platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities.
• Continuous delivery solutions, preferably employing AWS.
• Strong scripting in Ruby (preferred), PHP, Perl, or Python.
• Experience with tools such as Puppet Ansible, Chef Salt, Jenkins and Docker
• BS degree in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering required; Masters’ degree preferred

 

Generic Skills

• Leadership: not only at the management level, but at the individual level — having the confidence and resilience to take risks — be self empowered.
• Communication: understand and express ideas / solutions in a comprehensive and practical format — knowledge sharing.
• User Focus: an absolute focus on the user (internal or external) experience — every aspect of a solution should be productized for ease of use.
• Improvisation: the ability to think across disciplines and existing boundaries (technologies/business/geographies) – lateral thinking.
• Collaboration: teamwork with a positive approach to ambiguity.
• Research: an inclination to continuous research inside and outside the current focus fields.
• Influence by example: scientific proof of an idea (success or failure) as the presentation tool — represent an idea in order to promote it.
• Technical Knowledge: broad and deep technical knowledge with a strong focus on data/objects and API/contracts.
• Abstract Thinking: view of ideas and solutions as abstractions/patterns that can be leveraged/adapted/reused — deliver frameworks instead of point solutions.
• Passion: A need to be “passionate” about producing exceptional solutions in a collaborative environment (e.g., Agile methodology preferred). Must always be curious and excited to try new technologies.