Cloud Architect

This position supports our client's Technology Infrastructure Engineering team, primarily responsible for performing the daily duties of Azure cloud design, new product and ensuring the health of their all-cloud environments. This role will work with the team in administering a hybrid cloud datacenter environment including on prem storage and compute resources. This role will work alongside other IT staffing (engineers and senior engineers), assorted project delivery staff, and a team in their India and US offices.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing the Azure suite (Application Gateway, APIM, Azure AKS, Azure AD B2C, Azure Cosmos, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, etc)
• Design experience with Azure Container Apps
• Understanding of general Azure Networking including Azure firewalls, overall network design, Application Gateways, VPN, Azure Express Route, Azure Firewalls
• General understanding of security concepts - specifically with deploying internally
• Design DevOps pipelines using Azure DevOps with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for Azure infrastructure
• Experience with architecting and designing solutions that meet the functional and non-functional requirements
• Drive, Plan and Develop blueprints and deliverables that help customers in advancing their Azure Cloud capabilities, involving both new solutions and migration of existing solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Provides expertise and leadership regarding solutions for infrastructure and applications in Microsoft Azure
• Keeps current on cloud technology trends both in the industry as a whole and with the applications deployed in the client's landscape, including researching, and implementing new and/or alternate.
• Provides technical leadership throughout the project life-cycle.
• Provides technical support to the IT team and stakeholders to ensure that cloud-based solutions are functioning effectively and efficiently.
• Ensure cloud-based solutions are secure and compliant with relevant regulations and standards.
• Responsible for collaborating with IT Leadership, Enterprise IT Architects and IT engineering peers, and key business partners in developing the principles and guidelines for the future-state Cloud IT architecture in alignment with the strategic goals of the company.
• In this role, you will: conduct design reviews of new and existing architectures, create reference architectures and standards to enable effective solution delivery, design solutions for performance optimization, and design automation solutions for reusability and consistency.
• Working closely with client operational resources in updating their on-premise practices to include cloud