azure cloud architect

Position: Azure Solution Architect (Infra/ Application)

  Day 1 On-Site 

  Duration: Fulltime

Expertise you bring:

• 10 years’ experience working in Enterprise IT services with background spanning infrastructure & application solutioning
• 5+ years’ experience with cloud computing technologies in Azure cloud platform
• Had demonstrated in building solutions across infra, application and databases migration requirements
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation for continuous integration and continuous deployment of technical solutions leveraging Azure Services and Features
• Hands on experience on Azure services like AKS, Azure functions, Azure Arc, Azure SQl, Azure DevOps, Azure active directory, Synapse, Management services, Azure migrate , Networking services etc.
• Strong understanding of the sales drivers, value proposition, for pre-sales and solutioning cloud computing
• Engage with customer stakeholders and Azure stakeholders to validate solution requirements, explore solution options, and identify solution integration requirements
• Build proposal responses, proactive pitches, offerings and commercial proposition presentation to internal and external customers
• Excellent communication skills, you will be working with sales and technology professionals across Fortune 500 clients
• Strong desire to learn and develop subject matter expertise with all technologies
• Support the development of pricing and commercial strategies and engage in discussion with customers of said strategies
• Support sales activity in presenting our solution approach and methods to customer stakeholders
• Understanding of cloud application architecture, cloud infrastructure architecture, various compute models, storage models, networking, and security
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills are a must
• Ability to generate effective present solutions via MS office tools

• Education, skills and experience you possess:
• Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling solution-based propositions
• Ability to act as a technical leader and trusted adviser in the area of cloud computing for our clients
• Strong ability to develop solution architectures, visualize the architecture via PowerPoint documents and other means necessary, and present such solutions effectively to our clients
• In cooperation with sales, produce creative solutions and strategies for enterprise grade clients
• Experience driving and coordinating complex and strategic technology pre-sales engagements and presentations
• Responsible for scoping professional services engagements and writing statements of work for new and existing customers
• Proven experience driving revenue through partners with structured programs from Google
• Assist in completing formal RFP responses for customers'
• Broad IT based technology experience including cloud computing, applications development, DevOps, IoT, relational databases, NoSQL databases, analytics, networking, security, storage, compute, continuous deployment, containers, and management and monitoring
• Experience executing large scale data center transformation or application migration and modernization projects
• Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful engagements with our clients
• The ability to understand the customer landscape, identify opportunities and overcome any technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of cloud platform in conjunction with business requirements
• Leadership capabilities, having the ability to interact and communicate effectively with senior leadership across a diverse set of customers across multiple discipline
• Verbal, written, and presentation communications skills are a must with technical and executive audiences
• Must be able to present and articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences
• Preferred experience with leading white boarding sessions and delivering multi-day workshops to architects, operations staff, developers, and cloud technologists
• Certification on Azure cloud platform is must