Senior Azure Engineer (Austin, TX)

Quisitive is a recognized global partner of Microsoft, leading in cloud transformation and enterprise data strategy. They are seeking a Senior Azure Engineer to provide leadership for strategic accounts, design and implement cloud solutions, and drive best practices in security and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships
• Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client’s Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics
• Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Cloud Adoption, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Compliance, and Security
• Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts
• Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies
• Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers
• Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams
• Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants
• Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience
• Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives

Requirements:

• Heavy Involvement With Customer Architecture Including The Following
• Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships
• Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client's Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics
• Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Cloud Adoption, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Compliance, and Security
• Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts
• Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies
• Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers
• Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams
• Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants
• Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience
• Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives
• Deep Understanding of: Azure Infrastructure as a Service – Compute, Storage, Network, Data, Firewall
• Azure Policy
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Log Analytics/Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Overall understanding of key concepts of Azure
• Identity and access management
• Security and Compliance
• Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Synapse
• Required: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate. A willingness to obtain these in the first month will be accepted
• Platform as a Service – Databrick, Fabric
• Familiarity with ITIL framework and ITSM toolsets
• Experience with IT Consulting
• Experience with large IT operations
• Nice to have: Microsoft Certified – Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure