Azure Cloud Architect

About the job
JOB DESCRIPTION:

Roles and Responsibilities
Participate in technical discussion, provide consultative services to customer, guide the team based on requirements for delivery, Provide Azure technical design and thought leadership.
Must have experience in designing & deploying enterprise scale landing zone for large scale infrastructure
Proven experience in migrating one Azure tenant/subscription workloads to another tenant and On-prem infra to Azure landscape.
Must have experience with designing and deploying solutions in Azure at enterprise scale, with good automation skills, Understand the customers business & application requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements.
Experience with private & public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations, implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
Extensive hands-on experience implementing infra migration, data migration and data processing using Azure services: Networking, Windows/Linux virtual machines, Container, Storage, ELB, Autoscaling, Azure Functions, Serverless Architecture, ARM Templates, Azure SQL DB/DW, Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Analysis Service - Must have experience in Azure IaaS and Azure active directory
Proven experience assessing client’s workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
Experience in working RFP's Proposals, Solutions, defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint
Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor team to build necessary competency.
Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization.
Well versed with third party DevOps such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, docker repository, terraform, and ansible, Azure Security policy, Azure DevOps, AKS, Azure WAF, networking and ingress controller, Good knowledge of working with Kafka, Datadog is added advantage
Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the Azure platform. end-to-end architecture, networking, provisioning, and management
Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the "why," and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation.
Understand the data requirements, source data landscape of the project and architect the solution with required solution components.
Hands-on experience in designing cost-efficient, fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems on Azure. Understand the data processing requirements like batch computing, stream computing needs and design the solution on Azure stack

Requirements

Overall 10+ years of experience with at least 5+ years of experience in Azure.
Must be well versed with automation on the cloud (both infrastructure and application deployments).
Should have experience with Migrations & Hybrid Environments.
Hand-on experience on Azure Services.
Good knowledge on networking and cloud security
Experience in setting of Azure Landing Zones for enterprises
Automation using Terraform and infrastructure as code
Must have a good understanding and knowledge of containers and DevOps tools and services
Experience of working in containerize application using AKS/K8S, Helm, Istio, ELK, Grafana, Promethus
Experience in DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Helm
DevSecOps tools such as Sonar cloud and Burp suite
Python/Groovy/shell scripting (any one)
Must have a good understanding of scrum/agile way of working.

Certifications

· Azure Certified Azure Administrator.
· Azure Certified Solutions Architect Expert.