Sr. Azure Architect

Senior Azure Architect.

(Montpelier VT or Addison TX).

Key Responsibilities

Strong Azure Architect/ Engineering skills. The resource should have hands on with latest Azure offerings / technologies.

Infrastructure Delivery

• You will lead development and enhancement of automation of cloud enablement tools.
• You will drive implementation of the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption.
• You will lead delivery of project support as a subject matter expert in infrastructure technologies.
• You will help lead incident resolution and resolution of business issues.
• You possess the ability to communicate effectively with an appropriate level of detail to all levels within the company.
• You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk.
• You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and are familiar with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations

Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy

• You will drive innovation and encourage others to remain current on emerging technologies and development trends.
• You will lead the delivery of collaborative cloud solution architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.
• You will lead development, design, and implementation of platform architectures that will support key software development and deployment processes.
• You will lead and review cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
• 15+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge working in public cloud technologies and solutions (Azure Preferred).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in production environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge of platform architecture and technologies.
• Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others.
• Show up consistently with a positive attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority.
• Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
• Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
• Certifications in Azure are highly desirable.
• Experience with OpenAI and AI Technologies are highly desirable.
• Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical expertise in at least two of the following areas –.
• Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).
• Public Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.).
• Networking (CDN, SD Wan, Load Balancing, WAF, etc.)
• Monitoring & Instrumentation (New Relic, Splunk, Zenoss, etc.).
• Systems Administration (Windows, Linux, Active Directory, SCCM, etc.).
• Automation Technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.)