Description
Senior Azure Architect:
As a Senior Azure Architect you will be a part of an Application Integration team.
The Azure Architect will run production systems on Azure, help to increase automation, ensure systems are reliable and scalable and promote a DevOps culture. You'll take an engineering approach to infrastructure and operations, solving business problems with software and automation; take ownership of the hosted infrastructure ensuring that it meets the needs of the product with a particular focus on data security and resilience and build, maintain and help shape the core Java libraries that power the product.
Responsibility:
- Be the integral technology leader who will architect Azure infrastructure enterprise-level projects that design and deploy cloud environments for hosting business application services
- Deliver cloud platform architecture design documents detailing the vision for how Azure infrastructure and platform services support or enhance the overall enterprise architecture roadmap associated with future business strategies
- Collaborate to move infrastructure from existing Data-center to Azure-based Cloud Infrastructure.
- 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
- Drive the overall Enterprise Cloud strategy which includes among others, Vendor selections, internal and external Cloud-based solutions and infrastructure that span across multiple public and private Clouds and regions, including Azure, AWS, and client data centers.
- Defining policies, standards and principles for cloud
- Define architectural building blocks in the context of cloud
- Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated hands-on experience on one or more of the following domains:
- Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking, Security
- Monitoring, alerting and logging tools, and build/release processes
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery models
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools: Azure Automation, Azure CLI, Ansible and Terraform
- Knowledge of infrastructure solutions, especially in relation to Microsoft programs, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, and cloud technologies
- Capable of technical deep dives into infrastructure, databases, and applications as needed, yet cognitively agile enough to have strategy discussions with leadership and business application partners
- Knowledge of networking topologies and engineering, including DNS, Active Directory, Firewalls, load balancers, and gateway devices
- Experience in cloud architectures, including web, application, and database components
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Azure Resource Manager, Azure Templates, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Automation, Azure AD Experience moving workloads from on-premises infrastructure to IaaS
- Experience with virtualization, storage, and networking architecture
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated technical leadership
- Great communication skills coupled with a strong desire for personal development and learning
- Good understanding of distributed systems
- Understanding of scaling technologies and solutions