We Neudesic, an IBM company are currently seeking an Azure Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect, to become a member of Neudesics Cloud Infrastructure Team.

This role requires deep expertise in delivering modern application solutions on the Microsoft Azure Platform and the ability to communicate how these solutions drive business value.

In this role, you will help shape the vision and execute on that vision focused on the Azure platform helping drive value for our clients and growth for Neudesic.

This role shall also be responsible for building and Microsoft Azure community and managing the Azure Competency Program.

Specifically, you will provide practical guidance based on your years of experience in cloud migrations and transformation.

In addition, you will assist in creating delivery assets that communicate our value proposition to technical decision-makers.

You will be Neudesics champion for innovation on the Azure platform, specifically enabling the union of product and solutions for managed services.

This role will help in ensuring sustained, profitable growth with the clients.

- Delivery Lead : Serve as part of delivery leadership team across service lines, focused on managed services.

- Lead packaging of solution offerings and enable sales teams.

- Develop reference architectures, documentation, and other intellectual property that ensures the delivery of managed services that are secure, highly profitable, and scalable.

- Ensure utilization target, profitable margins, PnL targets.

- Client Relationship : He/she will consult clients and develop relationships with key stakeholders.

- Be the managed services evangelist and a trusted advisor to the clients through their transformation to an Azure-based technology platform.

- Sales and Revenue Influence : Collaborate with the Sales team in complex sales pursuits.

- Identify new opportunities with existing clients and propose relevant solutions.

- Support Microsoft initiatives for account penetration and growth.

- Team Management : Manage, mentor, and lead the team.

Technology Requirement :

- AKS Management and Microservice CI/CD experience (~2 Years Hands-on Experience).

- Work as AKS Administrator, and support AKS infrastructure, ensuring it is a secure, resilient, high-performance PaaS platform.

- Configure, Deploy, and Support workloads to securely run and operate AKS seamlessly using Azure DevOps and Helm.

- Manage and support Azure DevOps build and release pipeline, set up new repos, and integrate CI/CD into the development life cycle.

- Manage and support Azure DevOps build and release pipeline, set up new reports, and integrate CI/CD into the development life cycle.

- AKS Administration and Debugging Skills.

- Hands-on experience in CI/CD for Microservice using ADO and Helm and.

- ServiceMesh, Prometheus & Grafana deployment and configuration.

- Good in Azure DevOps Yaml Pipeline, Pipeline templates (~2 Years Hands-on Experience).

- Strong in Git/github, Release management, Branching strategy, PR activities.

- Strong in Terraform automation and Deployments using Azure DevOps ~2 Years Hands-on Experience).

- Azure Infra resources (~4 Years Hands-on Experience)-.

- Azure Landing Zone design and implementation, VM, VMSS, Azure Functions, IAM, AKS cluster Management, Storage Account, Key Vault, Azure Front door, Application Gateway, Logging, Metrics, Azure Security, Azure AD, azure event Hub, DNS.

Experience and Role Expectation :

- A thought leader in technologies represented by a digital service line.

- Hands-on consultant with delivery focus on specialized platforms.

- Ability to develop curriculum for talent development.

- Ability to lead high-performance engineering teams.

- Design reviews, guide course-correction (recovery), technology oversight.

- Recognition and hiring of top talent for the consulting organization.

- Deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure (AWS is a plus) using industry best practices.

- Define and implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.

- Design and develop automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration process.

- Work closely with the Development and Operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure.

- Strong understanding of Azure Database technologies (both IaaS and PaaS) and options to support the migration process.

- This will include and not limited to Azure database migration technologies and refactoring options.

- Application rationalization, scoring, mapping dependencies and define roadmaps to support the application migration.

- Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.

- Ability to travel up to 50%.

- Industry recognition.

- Customer focus.

- Community champion and evangelist.

- Success Factors.

- Understanding of industry best practices, trends of platform modernization solutions and deployments.

- Experience in articulating business drivers and technology decisions for cloud deployment strategies.

- A verifiable experience in designing strategic roadmaps for digital platform solutions for medium to large enterprises.

- Consultative experience in defining platform modernization project technical milestones and designing implementation resource cost models.

- Demonstrate deep understanding of an enterprise cloud strategy and business value driven selection of cloud platform providers.

- Experience leading large-scale projects involving, strategy development, and application.

- Ability to articulate and propose suitable enterprise scale platform modernization architectures on Azure to fit specific requirements of varying customer use cases.

- Experience in Cloud Migration and Transformation.

- Experience in Managed Cloud Solutions across multiple cloud platforms.

- Ability to lead technical teams, provide technical oversight, and be hands on when needed.

- Ability to proactively engage in complex sales pursuits with sales team members.

- Ability to develop a technology vision and communicate its value to clients and Neudesic teammates.

- A passion for learning, technology and digital transformation.

- An innovative mind that is creative and doesnt follow cookie cutter ideas.

- A disciplined approach to your work life and your craft.