IQVIA Looking for Assoc IT Architect Dir at Remote

IQVIA; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as an Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect, where you'll leverage your expertise in cloud technologies and DevOps practices to design and implement robust infrastructure solutions. This role is pivotal in ensuring the success of product launches and operational efficiency through automation and CI/CD methodologies. You'll work closely with enterprise architects and development teams, driving innovation and best practices in a collaborative environment. If you're passionate about cloud solutions and eager to make a significant impact in the life sciences industry, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Azure Cloud services and architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• Strong foundation in infrastructure and network technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop infrastructure for the Integrated Health Platform.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and manage Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance system reliability and scalability.

Skills

Azure Cloud

DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Automation

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Network Security

Relational Databases

Education

Azure Certifications

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect Roles and Responsibilities:
IQVIA’s Integrated Health Platform (IHP) has a need for an Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect, reporting to the Director of Infrastructure, DevOps, and Support. This role will interact with enterprise architects and development teams, providing a point of ingress to the DevOps teams for both product and project SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions. This critical role will help interpret and align the platform solutions as they are onboarded and deployed into the Azure Cloud using automation and CI/CD.

The role of the DevOps Architect and Staff DevOps Engineer involves coordinating the efforts of product design and development with the more business-oriented operations and production to achieve successful new product launches.

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of IHP’s infrastructure
• Documentation: both written and visual
• Disaster Recovery, continuity, availability
• Deploy automation which reduces risk management and upholds the infrastructure of the organization.
• Extensive collaboration: technical analyses, deployment, and monitoring, with the focus to enhance overall system reliability and scalability.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practices whilst recognizing opportunities for automation, design development, and other solutions in a comprehensive manner to boost operational efficiency.
• Enforce and support a consolidation strategy for DevOps tools.
• Align on the quality strategy.
• Support secure cloud, code quality, and DevSecOps.
• Manage build infrastructure.
• Manage application configuration and secrets
• Implement a container build strategy
• Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
• Design a dependency management strategy.
• Manage security and compliance.
• Design an infrastructure and configuration management strategy.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Manage Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure.
• Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms.
• Implement a process for routing system feedback to development teams.
• Optimize feedback mechanisms.

A deep understanding of the Azure Cloud catalog, specifically:

• Logic Apps
• API Management
• Log Analytics
• Relational databases in the cloud (Postgres, MS SQL Server)
• Azure App Service
• Azure Kubernetes
• Azure Databricks
• Virtual Networks
• Blob Storage
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Application Gateway
• Container Registry
• Azure Functions
• Load Balancer
• Vnets

An understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and release engineering:

• Infrastructure as code
• Code Repo design
• Quality
• Create a tool integration strategy
• Design a version control strategy
• Integrate source control

Familiarity with various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/CD pipelines):

• GitLab CI/CD
• Terraform
• Continuous automation and deployment.

A strong infrastructure and network technology foundation:

• TCP/IP networks, including subnets and routing.
• Network security concepts including firewalls, IDS, and proxies.
• Storage concepts, both traditional and cloud.
• Performance tuning and scaling concepts.
• Performance monitoring: proactive, reactive, and forensics.

Enterprise Architecture

Candidate with Azure certifications would be strongly considered. Job requires time zone alignment with European and US Eastern time zones, typically afternoon and evening alignment (IST). Occasional or possible travel to Bangalore and the US with advanced notice.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. We believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. Learn more at IQVIA Careers.