Job Description :
Role:Senior Technology Azure Architect
Location:chicago,IL
Duration: 6+ Months
Minimum years of experience:-10+years
Primary skills
At least 5 year experience architecting solution leveraging Azure IaaS services, ASR with 7+ years of experience of hard-core infrastructure consulting
Azure Certification - Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions / DevOps Engineering Professional / Developer
In depth knowledge of key Azure services - VM, Storage, Azure SQL, VNet, Redis Cache, Resource Manager, Azure Diagnostics/ OMS, Traffic Manager, Azure CDN, Azure Notification Hubs, Azure Identity and Access Management, Infrastructure as Code etc.
In-depth knowledge of design, implementation, engineering, automation and devops implementation, 0073ervice operation and service improvement initiatives
On premise / other cloud providers to Azure cloud migration using cloud migration tools like ASR/Cloud Endure etc.
Secondary skills ( nice to have):
Cloud strategy assessment and definition
Key Skills: CI and CD using Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, Change management, Azure Cloud knowledge and prod support activities
At least 2 - 3 years of experience using DevOps Tools, Python, Dockers
Skillsets: - Knowledge about CI and CD using GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA etc
Strong understanding of UNIX Operating system and adept in any of the scripting languages like shell, awk, perl etc.
Understanding and experience on handling of servers like IIS,Tomcat, Apache
Defining deployment standards for development team & reviewing delivered build packages for validating the required standards, Automation Architect
Understand Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle process.
Understanding of container technology and container orchestration platforms.
Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor team to build necessary competency
Advise the customer executives on their cloud strategy roadmap, improvements, alignment and further improvements.
Proven experience assessing clients’ workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
Proven knowledge of leading Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools
Proven knowledge of evaluating the Azure hosting consumption charges and optimization of the charges
Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint
Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness within key executive stakeholders in client organization;
Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills;
Ability to quickly produce PowerPoint slides which are both content rich, succinct and visually appealing.