Azure Architect

Position Overview

Seeking an Azure Architect with proven high-level expertise in driving Cloud Managed Services business and revenue growth. Qualified candidates need to have a successful track record of creating solution architecture for managed services and cloud offerings to enterprise accounts and mid-size companies. Candidates must be able to build relationships with IT Decision Makers and CxO levels of organizations.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for gathering/capturing Business requirements from Customer by coordinating with Customer and Sales Team.
• Understanding customers' AS-IS and TO-BE Infrastructure/Application/Security requirements on Cloud.
• Understanding RFP/RFI to capture business requirements and prepare for Technical Response.
• Responsible for creating Optimized Solutions (Sizing, Architecture options, BoM etc.) on Public Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) based on customer requirements.
• Customer Presentations/Whiteboarding of the company’s capabilities and Solution prepared with the ability to explain benefits of TO-BE model.
• Creating Proof of Concept (PoC).
• Creation of Cloud Migration Plan.
• Participation in public events and writing Technical whitepapers/Articles/Blogs.
• Internal Trainings.
• Help Delivery teams in knowledge transition.
  
  

Job Prerequisites

• Prior experience on Azure public cloud is mandatory.
• 10-20+ years of IT/Datacenter experience with minimum 2+ years on cloud Infrastructure/Application as SME/Architect on one of the public clouds.
• Preferably certified on one of the Cloud Technologies (Expert/Associate level).
• Experience/Understanding of architecting complex Enterprise grade solutions in on-premise and cloud environments.
• Experience in creating solutions either on Cloud infra IaaS (VM, Storage, Networking, SAP on Cloud etc.) or in Cloud Apps (PaaS, Serverless, Container, CI/CD).
• Firm grasp on cloud security, leveraging Windows/Linux operating systems, Active Directory, AD integration.
• Well-versed in designing and building solutions that include high availability, Disaster Recovery architectures.
• Familiarity with Cloud Automation Tools (Terraform, ANSIBLE, ARM Templates).
• Client-focused with the ability to influence others to achieve results.
• Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on cloud that address customer’s requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments.
• Collaborate with other project teams on technical solutions and help improve service.
• Ability to learn and work with new and emerging technologies (AI/ML/IoT etc.).
• Open for local/global travel (30-40%) to client/partner/Event offices/locations as per business requirements.