Description
I am actively seeking Azure Solutions/Technical Architects to join a leading MS Gold partner consultancy client of mine. Competitive day rates of £P/D Inside IR35 are on offer with initial contract lengths being 3 months but it is likely to extend to 12 months.
You will be joining an industry-leading team of Azure architects. Delivering cloud-based architectures across many sectors including but not limited to Media, Retail, Financial Services, Construction, Public sector, Utilities and Logistics in the UK.
- Deploying Azure Landing Zones (Azure foundation platform) using Infrastructure-as-Code methods (eg, ARM templates, Terraform and PowerShell).
- Following Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) best-practices using Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.
- Working across both waterfall and agile cloud migrations and cloud transformational projects.
- Contributing to our centralised code base.
- Authoring Low Level Design (LLD) documentation to a high technical standard.
- Providing updates on Azure enhancements to Azure Solution Architects and the wider team, ensuring industry and Microsoft best practices are adhered to.
- Ensuring Microsoft and industry security best practices are adhered to.
- Aligning deliveries to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
Technical Skills Required:
- At least 2 years' experience delivering Azure IaaS/PaaS solutions with an infrastructure focus. Including but not limited to - Compute, Storage, Networks, Monitoring, Management, Backup.
- At least 1 year in a client facing role.
- Have excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Good teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment using Azure DevOps or other.
- Ability to manage their own time and prioritising workloads.
- Demonstrable risk management knowledge.
- Experience working within an Agile team environment.
- Keen problem-solving skills.
- Ability to quickly acquire new skills.
- Excellent skills in at least one of following: ARM and/or Terraform.
- Understanding of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Azure Polices & Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Experience implementing Hub-Spoke network topologies, Virtual Network (vNET) peering, Network Security Groups (NSG), Public IP addresses (PIP), Site-to-Site VPN and Azure load-balancers.
- Experience deploying and configuring Log Analytics workspaces.
- Experience implementing Azure Backup and configuring backup polices.
- Experience implementing Azure Key Vault and collecting secrets during the deployment using ARM templates.
- Experience deploying Virtual Machines using specific VM SKU types
- Experience deploying Virtual Machines using specific Azure Disk requirements including, managed disk types, data redundancy and access tiers.
- Experience deploying Highly Available Virtual Machines using Availability Sets.
- Understanding of Highly Available Virtual Machine deployments using Availability Zones
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