Azure Cloud Architect
Montreal, Wisconsin, United States of America
Contract
3 hours ago
$80 - $90 USD
Key skills
PythonSQLPowerShellTerraformKubernetesDockerAnsibleAKSGitGitHubCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Duration: 12months
Responsibilities:
- Contribute towards defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards and design strategies.
- Engage with internal stakeholders to capture business requirements, translating them into secure, scalable, costefficient cloud solutions.
- Assess current cloud technologies and ensure alignment with business goals and efficiency targets.
- Facilitate smooth transition of Digital/GTM solutions from sandbox or development environments into production, ensuring proper governance, deployment practices, and handoff to operations.
- Lead or guide deployment of complex cloud solutions with hands-on ownership where needed and ensure smooth operational transition.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams and managed partners to deliver consistent, standardized cloud services.
- Produce architecture documents, standards, policies, and operational handover materials.
- Participate in governance forums (architecture review, change review).
- Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements and implement them in accordance with existing enterprise automation framework & tooling
- Interface with operation teams to ensure seamless transition of cloud services into operations
- Oversee cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and optimization.
- Review new cloud offerings of interest for organizational alignment
Technical Requirements:
- Extensive experience with a wide range of Cloud (Clienture) services, such as Virtual Machines, Clienture App Services, Clienture SQL Database, Clienture Storage, Clienture Kubernetes Service (AKS), Clienture Batch, Container App Environments, etc.
- Strong background in cloud architecture best practices, including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, such as Cloud Migrate and database migration services.
- Expertise in Clienture architecture, automation (IaC, CI/CD), identity, networking, and security best practices.
- Extensive experience in IaC and automation tooling including, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud init, Clienture CLI, Python/Powershell, Git, GitHub Action Workflows, Docker
- Understanding of general & cloud-specific networking stack
- Experience in building and implementing Clienture Policies
- Experience integrating costgovernance (FinOps) considerations into architecture decisions.
- Strong background in producing high and lowlevel designs across multivendor cloud ecosystems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Qualifications
- 5 7+ years of handson cloud architecture and design experience in large, distributed enterprise environments.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or experience in a related field.
- Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Architect or a similar role.
- Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Clienture Solutions Architect Expert.
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