Senior Azure Architect

Siri InfoSolutions, Inc.; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Siri InfoSolutions, Inc. is seeking a highly experienced cloud leader specializing in Azure operations. The successful candidate will possess over 15 years of experience in cloud migrations, with strong skills in Terraform and Ansible.

In this role, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, troubleshoot issues, and ensure security policies are enforced while optimizing cloud applications. A foundational knowledge of automation scripting is essential.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in Azure and cloud operations.
• Experience in leading on-premises to Azure cloud migrations.
• Basic OS scripting skills preferably in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to cloud engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and conduct root cause analysis.
• Develop and enforce comprehensive security policies.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Azure Operations

Cloud migration

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Security policies

CI/CD Pipelines

Tools

Azure CosmosDB

Azure SQL

Open Policy Agent

Job description

• 15+ years of relevant experience in Azure, Azure migrate, Azure Operations, Terraform, Ansible.
• Excelling in handling demanding customers and working closely with application teams.
• Good understanding and experience in running Azure Operations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to cloud engineers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis (RCA).
• Basic OS scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation.
• Foundational knowledge of shared services (e.g., Identity, Firewalls, Certificates, Secrets, Networking).
• On premises to Azure cloud application migration experience of more than 5 years in a leadership role is a MUST.
• Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Open Policy Agent to create complex infrastructure deployments.
• Proficient in selecting and configuring cloud database services (e.g., Azure CosmosDB, Azure SQL, etc.).
• Expert in crafting reusable and modular IaC templates for complex architectures, automated CI/CD pipelines, and championing DevOps practices.
• Developing and enforcing comprehensive security policies and regular security audits.
• Advanced analytics, anomaly detection, and monitoring data for proactive optimization.
• Excellent in technical leadership, to front end architectural discussions, Terraform Coding best practices related discussions with the client, and guide the team in writing Terraform modules, bug fixes in the code, deploying the code in infrastructure for Dev, Test and Prod environments.