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Azure Infrastructure Architect (Remote)

NxT Level

Azure Infrastructure Architect (Remote)

Los Angeles, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Azure Infrastructure Solutions Architect (Remote)

    Need to be near the following cities: Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, or Irvine. Open to those outside of those locations but require more travel. We do expect approximately 20% travel. 

    We are currently looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Solutions Architect with deep understanding and expertise in infrastructure solutions and services. We are looking for an individual that is experienced working in a customer-facing consulting role to lead teams in cloud solutions development and delivery.

    Cloud Focus: Azure | Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, IaaS, Network, Backup/DR and Security

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Lead requirements gathering, analysis and solution development for MS Azure cloud-based solutions

    • Architect, design and implement plans for deploying complex application workloads on MS Azure

    • Architect highly available, backup, and disaster recovery solutions on MS Azure

    • Partner with project teams, functional architects, systems specialists and other technical resources and its customers

    • Lead projects, remotely, in a hands-on role driving Azure cloud migration/adoption from inception to production

    • Assume responsibility for technical presentations

    • Mentor and provide technical oversight and guidance to implementation teams while working in a coordinated manner to deliver and deploy the designed architecture

    • Provide Cloud/Azure thought leadership through publications and speaking engagements as needed

    • Create reference architectures, pre-sales, and technical collateral

    • Support the development and growth of Modern Data Center Practice

    Experience and Skills:

    • Expert level knowledge regarding MS Azure IaaS services (i.e. Compute, networking, databases, storage, backup and archive, DR, security, monitoring, etc.)

    • Experience with Terraform for Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code automation

    • Experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Hashi Vault and Hashi Nomad a plus

    • Experience with establishing technical strategy and architecture at an enterprise level

    • Strong expertise in MS Azure Security & Identity services (i.e. Azure Active Directory, Domain Services, Azure Security Center, Azure Governance,)

    • Understanding network topologies, load balancing and segmentation

    • Assessment and demonstration of new technologies; capacity planning; performance tuning

    • Experience leading Azure Cloud project delivery, i.e. responsible for:

      • Project deliverables

      • Technical and architecture oversight

      • Project delivery approach

      • Delivery performance – working with delivery and PM teams

    • Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills

    • Experience leading and working with diverse geographically distributed teams

    Education and Experience:

    • 10+ years overall industry experience

    • 5+ years of experience with demonstrated Cloud architecture projects and deployments

    • 5+ years of experience with Cloud solutions, platforms, and technologies

    • 3+ years of experience across the business development life-cycle (i.e. Pre-Sales, Solution Architecture, Pricing, and Proposal Development)

    • Must have extensive working experience with Microsoft technologies

    • Mid-level to Expert level Terraform in Cloud Environments

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent experience

    Preferred Experience and Skills:

    • Be certified or demonstrate the ability to become certified as an Azure Cloud Solution Architect

    • Experience with HashiCorp Product Line

    • Experience with Application Migration to Azure (ASR)

    • Mid-level expertise in MS Azure PaaS services

    • Knowledge of Security, Authentication, MFA, Authorization, B2C, Data Privacy, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cryptography / Key Management, Access Controls and Security Protocols a plus

    • Experience with Linux, VMWare, Hyper-V and SCVMM