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**REMOTE CONTRACT POSITION. EASTERN OR CENTRAL TIME ZONE CANDIDATES ONLY PLEASE. UNFORTUNNATELY UNABLE TO WORK C2C OR SPONSOR VISAS**
Seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Azure Architect to lead the design and technical implementation of a Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) solution as part of an Azure Migration Project. This project involves replicating 100+ production servers and three Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems from an on-premises environment to Microsoft Azure in a lift-and-shift approach, with Azure serving as the DR/BC platform. The Azure Architect will play a critical role in defining the overall architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance requirements, and guiding the technical team through the implementation. This is a contract role for the three-month duration of this high-profile project. Key Responsibilities include Solution Architecture Design, Implementation Leadership, Testing and Validation, Technical Advisory, Cost Management and Documentation and Handoff.
- Education and Certification
- Bachelor s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Azure certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert are mandatory.
- Additional certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate would be helpful.
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing cloud architecture solutions with a focus on Microsoft Azure.
- Proven expertise in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning for enterprise-level environments.
- Expertise in lift-and-shift cloud migrations, including on-premises to Azure server and storage replication.
- Broad experience with hybrid environments integrating on-premises and cloud resources.
- Technical Expertise
- Deep technical knowledge of Azure services, including:
- Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Migrate and Azure Backup.
- Azure Storage (Blob, File Shares, Azure File Sync and Managed Disks).
- Deep technical knowledge of Azure services, including: