Job title: Azure Cloud Architect
Location: Remote in LATAM
Time Zone: USA – EST / CST
Duration: 12 months
Key Responsibilities
- Must be able to speak and communicate effectively in English
- Act in a consultative role for the IT Datacenter and Cloud Team, working directly with markets and technical counterparts to identify specific requirements and design custom solutions within the IT Service Offering Portfolio to meet functional requirements.
- Drive platform innovation and exploit automation.
- Have a mindset of continuous innovation, continuous learning and improvement.
- Drive upgrades, improvement initiatives and innovation proposals for the IT Platforms area.
- Coordinate the delivery of the designed and purchased solution to markets ensuring they meet Digital Asset Hosting standards and transition of the solution to sustain and operational teams.
- Support the markets in designing solutions from IT suppliers in a managed competition environment following latest technology trends, RFQ / RFP process in the best interest of the company.
- Define operational requirements and gaps for new and existing solutions.
- Collaborate with project managers in the infrastructure area, and the suppliers as IT teams to eliminate root causes / escalations.
Required Profile
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 5 years of demonstrable experience in architecture for large scale enterprise solutions, working with IT Operations, Infrastructure Architecture, or Cloud Computing.
- At least 3 years of demonstrable experience with cloud architecture, specifically in Azure, who can conceptualize ideas, evaluate options, present solutions, and implement the selected approach.
- Experience in architecting hosting infrastructure to include enterprise networking, servers, firewalls, load balancers, IP connectivity and SAN storage.
- Experience in Azure in terms of configuration, sizing, performance, etc.
Preferred Skills
Cloud certifications highly desirable.
PaaS, Docker, Kubernetes and serverless experience.