Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions Architect

SKAN is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect to drive high priority initiatives on Microsoft Azure platform. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding challenges related to application modernization and provide cloud native architecture and design solutions that are secure, reliable, scalable, elastic and highly available

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Enable Azure cloud journey, gather requirements, analyse TCO and create a business case, make the Cloud dream become reality

Assess the customer cloud maturity, review existing Azure cloud implementations, identify gaps and suggest improvements

Create a unified strategy for Azure cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation and operations

Design Azure architecture to enable cloud migration programs, analyse existing application and IT services portfolios, develop assets’ migration, transformation and automation approach, craft implementation roadmaps

Design, prototype and deliver Azure cloud native solutions, leverage Azure platform rich services offering

Design, prototype and deliver cloud agnostic microservices architecture leveraging Kubernetes, Pivotal and other PaaS platforms

Day-to-day lead the customer through the technical and organisational challenges of Cloud and DevOps transformation

Serve as an Azure evangelist, consult and provide technical guidance on Azure design, governance, performance, scalability, security, operations and cost control best practices

Create thought leadership on Azure solutions and hybrid clouds

Collaborating with Engineering, Architecture , Data and Devops teams

Participate in fast-paced DevOps and System Engineering teams within Scrum Agile processes

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Recent 5 years working with Azure cloud solutions.

Avid technologist, with deep expertise in Azure Cloud and/or other public/private/hybrid cloud architecture domains

History of successful implementation of complex Azure or hybrid cloud architecture solutions

Expert knowledge in private, public and hybrid cloud architecture, networking, workload types, migration patterns and tools

Hands-on experience with various enterprise applications and IT services, as well as software development, compliance and security, and IT operations disciplines

Hands-on experience in designing and configuring secure and scalable Cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure, including account structure, security and compliance audit, connectivity, shared services etc

Deep understanding of cloud design patterns, cloud operations and cloud cost models with hands-on ability to implement best practices or suggest improvements

Ability to suggest competitive and innovative technical decisions, get client buy-in and deliver commitments

Strong communication skills, ability to present technical ideas in business-friendly language to customer success and Product management and customers.

Analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Architecting, implementation, and Maintenance knowledge of Azure PaaS components Databricks, Data factory, Synapse, PySpark, AI\ML, advance analytics, and Kubernetes Service

Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix, and document problems, and implement preventive measures

Prior working experience in Product companies

Azure certifications Foundation-AZ900, DevOps-AZ400, DataEnginering-DP203

Must have Azure Solutions Expert AZ-304

Others good to have:

Strong Expertise in Securoity/Networking/Firewall design for high performance workloads

Have experience working with PaloAlto, Fortinet, Juniper, Cisco etc vendors

Knowledge of CI /CD Systems, such as Azure DevOps server and Azure DevOps services

Experience in Cloud automation using, Azure CLI, ARM & Terraform to enable Infrastructure as a Code, AWS CLI, Cloud formation, Ansible, etc.

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Argo, Flux

Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems

Experience with configuration management tools

Knowledge of Azure services , design and recommend what fits for the scenario.

Software Security and Compliance expertise (Twistlock, Blackduck, coverity)