Azure Cloud Architect (Remote) - Georgia IT Inc.

Consultants close to the below locations can be considered :

• Montvale, NJ
• New York, NY
• Atlanta, GA
• Dallas, TX
• St. Louis, MO
• Chicago, IL
• Orlando, FL
• Grand Rapids, MI
• Denver, CO

• Partner with other Architecture teams to develop solution designs and review alternative solutions for best fit.
• Strategize with customers to develop solutions based on a variety of criteria including a clear description of services, functionality, scalability, future-proofing, and cost.
• Leads pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing, and knowledge transfer; worked with engineering teams to accelerate software delivery.
• Implement cloud computing architecture solutions that address cloud security and compliance fundamentals, deployment automation and elastic sizing of environments, and multi-tenant implications.
• Delivering Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service solutions using Azure and open source technologies such as Puppet and Jenkins.
• Adapts to changing priorities and thrive in very dynamic environment with multi stakeholders from multiple lines of businesses that may having competing needs.
• Maintain deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends in the area of cloud security
• Strong verbal/written communication skills, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority. 
• Must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and team work. 
• Strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.  Ability to participate in resource planning processes based on defined organizational plans.

• Experience designing, implementing, and operating secure architecture and reference architectures in public cloud.
• Extensive working knowledge of Azure products and services
• Experience in full life-cycle of software development using Agile methodologies
• Experience with Containerization e.g. Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with implementing, deploying, and operating big-data platform within an enterprise production environment.
• Experience in any of the following programming languages - PHP, Python, Go, JavaScript.
• Expertise in core infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, network routing, and security group/firewall management.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management systems, CI/CD pipelines.
• Operational experience working with large, highly available, transactional systems on Azure.
• Experience using large scale monitoring, logging platforms like ELK Stack, Splunk, DataDog and be able to analyze and debug production issues.
• Detailed understanding of secure network and application design concepts and a demonstrated ability to integrate security tools with IT infrastructure such as proxies, mail servers, Active Directory, Identity and Access controls, workstations and mobile devices.
• Experience with scripting desired: PowerShell, Shell, Python, Javascript and development background a plus
• Experience producing technical assets or writing technical documentation.
• CCSP, Azure certifications preferred