Position Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design
Design and implement Azure cloud architectures that ensure scalability, availability, and performance.
Develop and maintain contingency and disaster recovery strategies.
Evaluate and recommend Azure architectural patterns using Terraform, BICEP, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
Security & Compliance
Implement and maintain Azure tenant security: baselines, access controls, patching, and vulnerability management.
Ensure compliance with ISO, PCI, GDPR, and FTC Safeguard regulations.
Collaboration & Leadership
Partner with executives and stakeholders to communicate benefits, risks, and costs of cloud solutions.
Provide expert technical guidance on Azure services, cloud technologies, and industry trends.
Mentor junior engineers and guide Service Delivery teams through documentation and training.
Automation & Operations
Design and implement automation/orchestration solutions to streamline operations.
Provide expert-level troubleshooting for Azure services.
Maintain uptime through proactive maintenance and structured change management.
Optimization & Innovation
Regularly assess existing cloud architectures for optimization, cost savings, and performance.
Stay up to date with emerging Azure features and best practices.
Lead evaluations of new technologies and make recommendations for improvement.
Governance & Documentation
Maintain accurate Azure asset inventories and system baselines.
Define corporate Azure standards and track KPIs (performance, availability, cost).
Keep documentation current in a central repository.
Strategic Involvement
Participate in strategic planning, roadmap creation, and budgeting for cloud services.
Support after-hours operations as part of an on-call rotation.
Engage in ongoing professional development and training.
Education and/or Training:
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) required.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303 and AZ-304) a plus.
Knowledge of networking protocols and technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and VLANs
Expert knowledge of native Azure cloud services as well as virtualization and container concepts and technologies.
Advanced proficiency with scripting languages (e.g,. PowerShell, Python) as well as automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
Proficient in various desktop tools including MS Office Programs (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint etc.)
Relevant Work Experience:
5-7 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud platforms in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Breadth and depth of expertise in a technical or functional area; knowledge of work processes and tools is generally limited to own area of responsibility or department.
Collecting and analyzing raw data to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and other helpful information.
Reviewing and improving analytics processes, methods, and tools to increase efficiency, accuracy, and security.
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