- Company Name
- Bell
- Job Title
- Cloud Solution Architect II
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Cloud Solution Architect II
**Role Summary**
Design and lead the end‑to‑end architecture of scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient cloud video platforms. Own the technical vision for live and on‑demand streaming workflows, integrating cloud services, video processing, CDN delivery, DRM, and observability. Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to validate designs and drive delivery.
**Expectations**
- Deliver comprehensive reference architectures for ingest, transcoding, packaging, storage, CDN, playback, analytics, and observability.
- Champion secure‑by‑design principles and industry compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PIPEDA/GDPR).
- Optimize cloud spend through tagging, rightsizing, caching, and egress control.
- Lead technical enablement, leave governance tools, and support SIgQC.
**Key Responsibilities**
- **Architecture & Systems Design**: Define reference models for live/VOD pipelines, select and integrate cloud building blocks (containers/K8s, storage, databases/cache, event streaming, CDN, observability, identity/security).
- **Video Pipeline & Playback**: Author and validate ingest paths (SRT/RIST/RTMP), transcoding, packaging (HLS/DASH CMAF), ABR ladders, low‑latency modes (LL‑HLS, LL‑DASH, WebRTC/SFU), DRM (PlayReady, Widevine, FairPlay, Speke).
- **Cloud, Networking & Edge**: Design solutions on Azure/AWS/GCP, orchestrate with AKS/EKS/GKE, Event Hub/Kafka, Redis, object storage; architect CDN/edge delivery (Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Azure Front Door), tokenized URLs, geo/IP rules, multi‑CDN routing, edge compute offloads.
- **Security, Privacy & Compliance**: Implement TLS, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, key vault/KMS, least‑privilege, secrets rotation; watermarking, secure packaging, origin hardening; maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, PIPEDA/GDPR evidence.
- **Reliability, Observability & Cost**: Define SLOs/SLIs, enable end‑to‑end monitoring (OpenTelemetry, synthetic testing, RUM, video analytics), autoscaling, load/chaos testing, blue‑green/canary deployments, cost‑optimization tactics.
- **Delivery, Enablement & Governance**: Create architecture diagrams, ADRs, playbooks, runbooks, threat models; champion IaC (Terraform/Bicep), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps), policy‑as‑code; provide technical leadership, vendor assessments, build‑vs‑buy decisions.
**Required Skills**
- Cloud architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP; container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM); GitOps, CI/CD pipelines.
- Video streaming fundamentals: live/VOD, HLS/DASH CMAF, ABR, low‑latency, DRM, CDN caching, origin hardening.
- Security protocols: TLS, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, key management, secret rotation.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, synthetic/real‑user monitoring, video‑specific analytics.
- Cost‑optimization: tagging, rightsizing, caching tiers, egress control.
- Multi‑region/availability zone design; load/chaos testing (k6, Locust).
- Strong communication, technical documentation, stakeholder collaboration.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (equivalent practical experience).
- Minimum 2 years cloud architecture or backend/platform engineering, with at least 2 years video streaming experience (live and/or VOD).
- Certifications not mandatory but preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Associate, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent security/observability credentials.