- Comprehensive experience architecting and integrating Cloud services in Microsoft Azure (IaaS. PaaS, SaaS, APIM)
- Clearly articulate and communicate complex design solutions to technical, non-technical, and leadership
- Experienced in working in Azure, Hybrid, and integrating on-premises solutions
- Strong understanding across Cloud and infrastructure components (servers, Virtualization, storage, network data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs.
- Create detailed solution design covering n-tier deployments, auditing, availability, disaster recovery, backup.
- Work with the application, security, and infrastructure teams to create and validate solution design
- Leadership capability and proven ability to manage difficult stakeholders
- Significant experience in presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences
- Managed the end-to-end lifecycles of a project in a solution architect capacity
- Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design, and management
- Utilize and improve design patterns using reference architectures for new applications migrating to cloud
- Assist in supporting and troubleshooting Azure cloud incidents/outages following incidents
Desired Qualifications:
- Debug network flows and identify potential roadblocks where policies, accesses etc. need to be changed
- Experience with claim-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
- Certifications e.g., Microsoft, TOGAF, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL etc.
- General awareness of DevOps techniques and methodologies
- Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
- Hands-on experience with the following:
- Networking, vNets, peering, routing, NSGs, DNS, load balancer, firewall
- Azure Functions, Web Apps / Application Services, Application Service Environnements, Azure Event Hub
- Application Gateway, SSL Deployments, Web Application Firewalls
- Azure Virtual Machine design and deployments (Linux, Windows)
- Azure Automation, Monitor, Backup, Defender for Cloud
- Azure DevOps
- Azure RBAC, strong understanding of built-in roles
- Azure PaaS Data
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect certification preferred
Years of Experience Required:
- Minimum 5-6 years of experience in designing, building, securing, and deploying applications and technologies to the Cloud.
- Minimum 3 years of experience migrating from on-prem Data Centers to Azure cloud and Hybrid Cloud environments.
- 10 years of IT industry experience with 5+ years as Architect