Essential Functions :

- Azure Infrastructure enterprise level projects that design and deploy cloud environments for hosting business application services

- Working closely with application, network, and security teams to ensure requirements are reflected appropriately in the Azure design

- Designing, testing, and implementing application services migrations in an automated manner

- Working closely with operational resources in updating current on-premise practices to include cloud

- Develop POC when required

- Provide expertise and leadership regarding solutions for infrastructure and applications in Microsoft Azure

- Demonstrate thought leadership in cloud computing across multiple streams

- Develop technical roadmaps for future azure implementations

- Ensures security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions

- Azure Functions

- DevOps (Jenkins) familiarity

- IaC (Terraform specifically)

- CI/CD

Education :

- Current professional industry certification Azure Solutions Architect - Expert preferred

Experience/Background :

- Experience designing and working with Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions

- Passion for continuous improvement and a sense of ownership of Cloud technology solutions

- Strong understanding of Cloud native architecture principles

- Modern architecture techniques (e.g. event driven architectures, stream processing, event sourcing/CQRS)

- In-depth experience architecting complex Azure Cloud platform solutions (Paas, SaaS, IaaS)

- Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments

- Experience creating and utilizing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines

- Experience working in an Agile or DevOps environment

- Strong coding skills in Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Json, and Javascript are desirable

- Demonstrated experience providing outstanding customer service, exceptional technical resolution and problem solving skills

- Strong client management and commination skills; credible professional presence

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

- Flexible, able to change direction quickly, demonstrated attention to detail and quality