Azure Architect
 

Key responsibilities

· Be the lead engineer on major cloud initiatives with minimal supervision.

· Provide best practices for building secure and reliable applications on cloud platforms

· Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize on premise platform to evolve as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) applications or Platform as a Service (PaaS)

· Working closely with operational resources to update their on-premise practices and architectures to include cloud service technologies

· Working closely with application, network, and security teams to ensure requirements are reflected appropriately in the Azure architected design patterns

· Develop, implement, and test data backup and recovery, and disaster recovery procedures

· Write and maintain clear, concise documentation, runbooks and operational standards including infrastructure diagrams

· Expertise in automation of infrastructure and have a deep understanding of how to apply infrastructure as code to empower the development teams.

· Ability to provide end to end solutions of hybrid solutions for both back office applications as well as our customer facing SaaS platforms.

· Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in development, test and production environments

· Educate/mentor product teams and junior engineers

 

 

Core strengths

· 8+ years’ experience designing and implementing large scale, global, complex distributed platforms and solutions required.

· Azure/Office365 Certification required (Azure Administrator, Solutions Architect, or DevOps recommended)

· 5+ years of cloud services architecture experience with Azure required.

· Expertise in Identity (ActiveDirectory, SAML, AzureAD, Multifactor Auth/Conditional Access tools)

· Expertise in systems security and how to apply it across distributed systems.

· Experience in containerization technologies such as Azure AKS.

· Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated hands-on experience required

· Expertise in source control systems utilizing Git such as Jira, Azure DevOps repos or GitHub.

· Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking experience is required

· Monitoring, alerting and logging tools, and build/release processes highly preferred

· Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery models required such as DevOps Pipelines (preferred) and Jenkins.

· Deep understanding of Microsoft and Linux systems and the ability to perform end to end automation with tools such as Terraform, Azure Automation, Azure CLI, Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell.

· Deep knowledge of networking topologies and engineering, including DNS, Firewalls, Load Balancers, and Gateway Devices