Azure Cloud Architect (Remote)

This is a remote position.

Requirements

• Familiarity of principles summarized in the Azure Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks is desired
  
• Solid experience developing infrastructure architecture, networking and security components at scale
  
• Applicable knowledge of principles summarized in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
  
• Expert-level technical design and thought leadership of Azure assessment and implementation engagements.
  
• Lead elaboration and discovery sessions to inform solution design, migration and modernization strategy
  
• Lead architecture design, infrastructure foundations, component and design thinking sessions with customers.
  
• Proven experience with a deep understanding of the following cloud platform technologies is strongly desired:
  
• IaaS: Compute (virtual machines via Windows & Linux), Storage (blob, file, managed disk), Networking (virtual networks, peering, routing) and Security (network security, auditing/logging, policy/compliance)
  
• PaaS: App Service/App Service Environment, Traffic Manager, Front Door, App Gateway, Load Balancer, Serverless SQL, Managed Instance SQL.
  
• Cloud Networking: Virtual WAN/VWAN, Secure Hub, Azure Firewall, NVA, Virtual Networks, NSG, Traffic Analytics, Hybrid Networking.
  
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AKS, OpenShift or ARO container platforms.
  
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, ARM Templates, Azure Policies, Azure Blueprints.
  
• Working knowledge of Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Cost Management or equivalent tooling.
  
• Understanding of data services including Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Data Lake, Data bricks, Data Factory, Synapse and when to use each.
  
• Provide guidance on Network Security, Azure Policy and Blueprints, Azure Monitor and Azure Security and governance-compliance mechanisms in general.
  
• Support IaaS migration & implementation via Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix, and VMware
  
• Support application & data migrations and PaaS modernization
  
• Design and implement Azure infrastructure to support 3rd party solutions (e.g., Sitecore on Azure)
  
• Ability to produce high quality architecture diagrams and documents to communicate thoroughness of vision for system component topology, design, networking and security of proposed solutions
  
• Ensure that the established process is followed on assigned projects and maintain familiarity with industry best practices including:
  
• Cloud virtual network segregation and service isolation
  
• Web Application Firewall configuration and implementation
  
• System reliability and regional redundancy
  
• Zero Trust security design and implementation
  
• Automated system auditing, logging and monitoring
  
• Good understanding in designing and implementing platform infrastructure for web services and applications is desired. Extra consideration is given to those candidates that have experience in this area with large scale, high performance and highly redundant solutions.
  
• Understands Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery design principles, methodologies and tooling options. The ideal candidate should be able to define and demonstrate BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) solutions
  
• Candidates may have a focus area in either Azure Foundations, Azure Application Modernization or Azure Data Services.
  
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, ARM Templates, Azure Policies, Azure Blueprints
  
• Working knowledge of Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Cost Management or equivalent tooling
  
• Understanding of data services including Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Data Lake, Data bricks, Data Factory, Synapse and when to use each
  
• Provide guidance on Network Security, Azure Policy and Blueprints, Azure Monitor and Azure Security and governance-compliance mechanisms in general.
  
• Support IaaS migration & implementation via Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix, and VMware
  

• Preferred experience in platform automation methodologies and tooling (Blueprint, Template, JSON/YAML/Bicep)
  
• Designing Azure Identity and Role Based Access Control
  
• Designing Azure Platform Protection and Network Segregation
  
• Managing Azure Security and Optimization for infrastructure workloads
  

• Implementation of Azure Web Apps, Function Apps, and development on these platforms
  
• Designing solutions that utilize Azure Cosmos Database, Azure Storage Account, and other services
  
• Designing solutions that utilize Azure integration services such as EventGrid, EventHub, and ServiceBus
  
• Managing Azure Security and Azure Identity in applications and workloads
  
  

• Preferred experience with Azure Data services such as Data Factory, Data Bricks and Data Lake
  
• Design and development of data transformation, migration and manipulation pipelines
  
• Manage Azure Security and optimize for data pipeline and workload needs.
  
• Design Analytics and reporting solutions using Azure Data Bricks, Power BI, Tableau, or other systems