Job Description for Azure Solutions Architect
Summary:
The Solutions Architect is a combination of a subject matter guru, trusted adviser and cloud services authority, will be responsible, working as part of our Cloud team, to help define the tools, processes and methods, and develop systems that will utilize Private and Public clouds (Azure) to support enterprise adoption of our managed Cloud service offerings. In addition, the Solutions Architect will use systems analysis techniques, enterprise architecture planning process and procedures while consulting with clients to determine cloud computing specifications and needs for our clients.
Responsibilities:
Our Senior Solutions Architect will take on a very hands-on role. Assist other team members in the development and deployment of environments for our customers.Have opportunities to be involved at all stages of a project - covering requirements capture and assessment, cloud services deployment, security and compliance, systems engineering and operational readiness.
- Demonstrable enterprise architecture planning and design skills in MS Azure environments
- Demonstrable hands-on solution implementation experience in MS Azure environments
-Expert knowledge of MS Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS technologies and solutions
- Expert knowledge of, and implementation experience with the MS Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
- Experience leading and executing technical application, server and data migrations to the cloud, from both
physical & virtual environments
- Ability to extract customer requirements from loosely defined existing customer environments
- Ability to efficiently design, architect and implement MS Azure solutions based on those customer
requirements
- Identity Management solution implementation experience
- Ability to design and implement enterprise database migrations to MS Azure
- Ability to provide MS Azure technical expertise and training to other cloud professionals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills
- Excellent problem solving skills; the ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Experience with any other Cloud Provider
- Experience with ITIL and ITSM principles
- Experience architecting enterprise scale solutions.
- Experience migrating workloads between clouds.
- Experience with scripting (i.e. PowerShell, Bash, Python).
- Experience with automation and 3rd party tools used in enterprise cloud environments (i.e. Dome9,
Terraform, etc.).
- Experience with networking concepts (i.e. subnetting, protocols, WAN connectivity, virtual networks).
- Experience with cloud security & governance (i.e. ACLs / Firewalls / Policy).
- Experience using source code repositories like GitHub.
- Experience with Linux in an enterprise setting (i.e. RHEL, CentOS, Fedora).
- Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps/SRE.
- Experience with the Financial Services Industry and regulated environments.
- Experience diagramming solutions and documenting processes and standards.
Job Type: Contract