Azure Cloud Architect

Beschreibung

Duration: 6 months
Location: Remote (Must be based in Germany or Switzerland).
Project Language: English

I am currently working with a company with a revenue of €40+ billion last year. They are halfway through a Global Transformation and as such they are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Architect for a long term engagement.


• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical cloud solution.
• Be the solution ambassador for Microsoft Azure cloud solution, architecture, related technologies and their interdependencies.
• Create innovative solutions leveraging cloud platforms to solve client business challenges.
• Gather requirements, assess client capabilities and analyze findings to provide appropriate cloud recommendations and adoption strategy.
• Demonstrate expertise via client workshops and learning whiteboard sessions.
• Create conceptual, logical and physical design for cloud-based solutions for infrastructure and platforms.
• Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.
• Learn and adopt new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation and scalability.

What You’ll Bring
• Production level experience migrating and deploying Azure cloud-based solutions.
• Proficiency architecting, implementing and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and topologies.
• Project experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing core infrastructure, networking and cloud-based services for business teams or consumers.
• Deep product knowledge and understanding of Azure product features including Big Data and Advanced Analytics, Serverless Computing, Disaster Recovery, Internet of Things, Monitoring, and Azure Resource Manager
• Experience configuring and tuning cloud hosted solutions and platforms.
• Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• Experience with identity and access management, encryption and key management principles, and secure cloud design patterns.
• Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies).
• Experience with agile, automation and DevOps principles.
• Automation and orchestration experience with Visual Studio (VSTS), CloudFormation, Resource Manager, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Container configuration and implementation experience with Docker, Vagrant and Kubernetes.