Azure Cloud Architect

Jas Gujral; City Of London; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment agency is seeking a Cloud Architect specializing in Azure for a remote role in Europe. Candidates must have significant experience in Azure and strong client-facing skills. Responsibilities include advising clients on migrations to Azure and developing enterprise solutions. The contract is expected to last 6 to 12 months with rates dependent on experience.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of total experience.
• 5+ years of Azure experience with minimum 3 years as Architect.
• Experience in building Accelerators, frameworks, and IPs for Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Advise on the end-to-end journey to Azure.
• Assess on-premises infra landscape and recommend strategies.
• Develop complex enterprise scale solutions for Azure.

Skills

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

Cloud compliance

Client-facing skills

Education

Advanced level Certification [AZ-303 & AZ-304]

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Cloudformation

Job description

Overview

Cloud Architect Azure

Our Client is looking to recruit a Cloud Architect with Azure to work on a new project.

Responsibilities

• Work as advisor/consultant to the customer on end to end journey to Azure.
• Assessment of on-premises infra landscape, application rationalization and recommend strategy, roadmap and structured plan for migration to Azure.
• Develop complex, end to end, enterprise scale solutions for migration to Azure.
• Develop and review technical architecture design and recommend Azure best practices
• Customer facing role to lead & participate in architectural discussions and design workshops.
• Provide solutions critical issues identified migration to Azure.
• Design & develop innovative solutions, optimization solutions and automation solutions for build, engineer, migrate and operate on Azure.

Required Experience

• 10-15 years of total experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Azure with minimum 3 years as Architect.
• Should have exposure/experience building Accelerators, frameworks, and IPs for Cloud.
• CI/CD experience is required
• Docker, Kubernetes, IAC tools(Terraform/Cloudformation/ARM templates), Configuration Management tools(Chef/Puppet/Ansible) knowledge and experience is required.
• Expert in Azure Web Apps, Logic Apps, API Gateway, Application Gateways, VM Scale-sets, DB-PaaS, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs for multi-tenant environments.
• Experience on Assessment – Discovery, Dependency Mapping, Wave planning, migration plan
• Experience on Mass Migrations with migration processes, factory model & migration toolsets.
• Experience on Cloud operations – Monitoring management, governance, compliance, and security.
• Proficiency in cloud adoption frameworks.
• Good understating on Transformational and Optimization projects related to Cloud.
• Advance level Certification [AZ-303 & AZ-304] on Azure is required.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud related tools on automation and optimizations.
• Excellent communication & presentation skills with considerable exposure in Client facing role.
• Ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborate to drive a larger technology initiative/program.
• Excellent organization skills, attention to details and ability to multi-task

Additional Details

The Client is based in Geneva Switzerland – but the role will be remote from anywhere in Europe with meetings in person from time to time.

Rate will be dependent on experience.

Duration will be 6 to 12 months.

Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your daily rate and availability.