Azure Cloud Architect (IT) / Contractor

Consult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 84,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking a Cloud Architect with Azure expertise to lead end-to-end migration journeys to Azure. The role is remote across Europe, with occasional in-person meetings in Geneva as needed.

Responsibilities include assessing on-premises landscapes, designing enterprise-scale Azure solutions, guiding migration roadmaps, and ensuring governance, security and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Total IT experience 10-15 years.
• 5+ years on Azure with at least 3 years as Architect.
• Exposure to accelerators, frameworks, and IPs for Cloud.
• CI/CD experience is required.
• Proficient with Docker, Kubernetes, IaC tools (Terraform/ARM templates).
• Expert in Azure Web Apps, Logic Apps, API Gateway, App Gateways, VM Scale Sets, DB-PaaS, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Notification Hubs.
• Experience in migration planning and mass migrations.
• Cloud operations: monitoring, governance, security.
• AZ-303 & AZ-304 certification required.
• Strong client-facing communication.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on end-to-end Azure migration journeys.
• Assess on-premises landscape and plan migration strategy and roadmap.
• Develop enterprise-scale solutions for Azure migrations.
• Review technical architectures and Azure best practices.
• Lead architectural discussions and design workshops with customers.
• Provide solutions for critical migration issues.
• Design and develop automation and optimization solutions for build, migrate and operate on Azure.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

IaC tools

Tools

Terraform

Arm templates

CloudFormation

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 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

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.