Hands-on Azure Cloud Architect for Top Financial Firm

The Culper Group; Weehawken (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Culper Group is seeking a Hands-on Azure Cloud Architect for a contract position at a top financial firm in New Jersey. You will engineer Azure services that the application development team can utilize and lead WMA Developer Transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the Azure platform and hands-on experience with DevOps tools. Responsibilities include collaborating with CTO teams and implementing build chain tools for WMA developers.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem‐solving skills.
• Deep understanding of the Azure platform and hands-on experience engineering Azure services for development teams.
• Experience with DevOps tools including Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Engineer Azure services for application development team.
• Lead the WMA Developer Transformation initiative.
• Collaborate with teams to implement build chain tools.

Skills

Analytical and problem‐solving skills

Azure platform expertise

DevOps tools experience

Knowledge of Agile methodologies

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Hands-on Azure Cloud Architect for Top Financial Firm

Contract position with a top financial firm in New Jersey.

Responsibilities

• Engineer Azure services so the application development team can consume them.
• Lead the WMA Developer Transformation initiative.
• Collaborate with CTO teams, WMA application teams and Infrastructure teams to implement build chain tools for WMA developers.
• Analyze Azure services, development tools, design application solutions, and create reference implementations.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem‐solving skills.
• Deep understanding of the Azure platform and hands‑on experience engineering Azure services for development teams.
• Experience with DevOps tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Nexus, Sonar, Fortify, Confluence, Flow JIRA, Elastic Search, Splunk, etc.).
• Knowledge of testing / test‑automation tools such as Selenium, Robot Framework, JMeter, Cucumber, etc.
• Experience designing and configuring container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes; understanding of PCF is a plus.
• Experience automating environment provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and other tools.
• Ability to support technical concepts, effort estimations and feasibility studies.
• Knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and SDLC methodologies is essential.

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