Job Description :
Position: Azure cloud Architect
Location: Deerfield, IL
Contract Duration: 6+ Months
Interview Process: 2 rounds of Webex
Visa: USC, GC, GC-EAD, H1B
Responsibilities:
Working in conjunction with Infrastructure, Dev Ops and Engineering groups to drive the strategy for our Azure environment to provide a stable, enterprise-class public cloud infrastructure.
Design highly-available, redundant, public cloud architectures, utilizing IaaS and PaaS, for large scale, mission critical applications and high-transaction workloads; discuss infrastructure and delivery principles in the Cloud and On-Premise.
Understand challenges of large scale cloud deployment and upgrades as well as resource allocation.
Understand DevOps principals and work with the team to implement automation and continuous integration.
Design and innovate technologies and solutions for effective resource allocation, automated application deployment and zero downtime upgrades and maintenance.
Design scalable solutions for managing core infrastructure maintenance, including backups, updates, anti-virus/malware etc.
Build the strategy for, and oversee the implementation of, a comprehensive service and performance monitoring and log aggregation system.
Qualification:
10+ years’ experience designing and leading architectural efforts for infrastructure, web and SaaS applications.
Deep expertise on Azure with preferred knowledge of competing platforms (AWS, Google etc.
Technical experience in data center operations support in large enterprise networks including the implementation and support of private and hybrid cloud computing environments.
Experience with infrastructure/cloud migrations, infrastructure disaster recovery planning and implementation.
Deep experience with Microsoft Server technology, including SQL Server, IIS, and Active Directory.
Knowledge of how to stand up Continuity of Operations environment and build out a Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC)
Excellent communication and customer support skills; interactive engagement and partnering with customers, understanding their requirements, offering optimum solutions, providing detailed product presentations to mid-level to upper management.
Seasoned leadership experience: Applying the nuances of influencing based on the situation, knowing when to push and when to ease, driving through designs, ideas, and roadmaps.