Azure Cloud Architect

Jas Gujral; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud consultancy is hiring a Cloud Architect with extensive experience in Azure. The role involves advising clients on their migration journey to Azure, developing enterprise solutions, and ensuring compliance and governance during the process. Candidates should have at least 5 years in Azure architecture, strong skills in Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, along with advanced Azure certifications. While the client is based in Switzerland, the role is remote, requiring only occasional in-person meetings.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of total experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Azure with minimum 3 years as Architect.
• Advanced level Certification [AZ-303 & AZ-304] on Azure is required.

Responsibilities

• Work as advisor/consultant to the customer on end to end journey to Azure.
• Develop complex, end to end, enterprise scale solutions for migration to Azure.
• Design & develop innovative solutions and optimizations for build on Azure.

Skills

Azure Architecture

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Application Gateways

Communication Skills

Education

AZ-303 Certification

AZ-304 Certification

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Cloud Architect Azure

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

Key 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 understanding 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.

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.