Senior Azure Solutions Architect – Cloud Strategy & DevOps

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking an Azure Architect in Saint Louis, MO to design large-scale cloud solutions. You will lead architecture decisions for .NET-based systems, migrate workloads to Azure IaaS/PaaS, and define hybrid connectivity with on-premises resources.

You will evaluate cost models, build business cases, and guide security, RBAC, and DR planning across enterprise-scale deployments, while shaping cloud strategy and CI/CD practices with tools like VS Online, Jenkins, and TFS.

Qualifications

• 9+ years defining architecture for large.NET-based solutions.
• 3+ years implementing Azure-based large solutions.
• Experience in Azure IaaS, PaaS, storage, network and database.
• Map workloads across IaaS, PaaS and private clouds.
• Analyze on-premise and Azure costs; build business cases and ROI.
• Host large workloads in Azure IaaS; select VM sizes and storage.
• Implement Azure DB solutions with SQL Server and Oracle.
• Hybrid connectivity between Azure and on-premises (VPN/ExpressRoute).
• Configure subnets and NSGs in VNets.
• Leverage Azure PaaS services (web sites, web/worker roles, SQL Azure, storage, Service Bus, WebJobs, Cloud Services, RemoteApps).
• Security requirements for cloud (IAM, WAF, data protection).
• Configure RBAC for Azure Resource Groups.
• Apply custom tags to Azure Resources.
• Define highly available DR solutions in Azure.
• Define cloud strategy for enterprise.
• Build CI/CD in Azure using VS Online, Jenkins, TFS.
• Automation using Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell.
• Microsoft Azure certifications preferred.
• Azure automation and DevOps experience preferred.

Skills

Architecture design

Azure cloud

Cost optimization

Security (IAM, WAF)

RBAC

CI/CD

Hybrid connectivity

DR / HA planning

Tools

Azure Resource Manager

PowerShell

VS Online

Jenkins

TFS

Job description

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking an Azure Architect in Saint Louis, MO to design large-scale cloud solutions. You will lead architecture decisions for .NET-based systems, migrate workloads to Azure IaaS/PaaS, and define hybrid connectivity with on-premises resources.

You will evaluate cost models, build business cases, and guide security, RBAC, and DR planning across enterprise-scale deployments, while shaping cloud strategy and CI/CD practices with tools like VS Online, Jenkins, and TFS.