Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect

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Overview

Remote
Hybrid
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 6+ Month(s)

Skills

Java
Python
Amazon Web Services
Liaison
DEV OPS
Terraform
Best Practices
qa
Structured Software
Jenkins
Deployment
Oracle
Design Patterns
WEB Services
Kafka
Continuous Integration/Delivery
Agile
Risk Management
Technical Requirements
Chef
Amazon Kinesis
Enterprise Architecture
SOW
Trading
Data Center
Sales Team
Exploration
Leadership Skills
Excellent Written
Proposals
Puppet
Chef (All)
Replication
Application Architecture
Usability
RE-Engineering
Marketing Collateral

Job Details

Title Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Start date: Immediate

Position Type: Contract

Location: Remote across Canada

Work Time: Eastern or Central Time Zone.

Job Description:
  • Experience in analyzing customer's business and technical requirements, assessing existing environment for Cloud enablement, advising on Cloud models, technologies and risk management strategies.
  • Experience on architecture, design of cloud solutions to address scalability, performance, security, availability, cost transformation requirements
  • Experience in Data Center transformation to Azure Cloud
  • Deep, hands-on technical expertise on Azure core services.
  • Build the architecture to allow for blue/green deployment on AKS.
  • Experience in migration-deployment of applications to Cloud, re-engineering of application for cloud, setting up OS and app environments in virtualized cloud
  • Experience in writing cloud automation scripts/code such as Ansible, Terraform,etc.
  • Exposure to Service-Oriented / Application / Infrastructure / Enterprise Architecture, and development experience on Web Services and Java / MS Technologies and/or Python using Boto library.
  • Good knowledge of application build/release processes CI / CD pipelines using Jenkins and Chef / Puppet.
  • Good knowledge of Agile processes (planning/stand-ups/ retros etc.), and interact with cross-functional teams i.e. Development, Infrastructure, Security, Performance Engineering, and QA.
  • Agile software development and DevOps.
  • Experience on customer cloud pre-sales responses and projects.
  • Strong passion for technology exploration and development.
  • Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills.
Experience:
  • Helping customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage Cloud services.
  • Lead the pre-sales efforts working collaboratively with ITP Sales teams and customer's, technical and business stakeholders, building a cost-effective, scalable, secure robust cloud (public, private and hybrid) solutions.
  • Create Sales and Marketing collateral content with sales team.
  • Conduct Sales enablement sessions to coach sales team on new offerings.
  • Attend customer meetings to understand their business and technical challenges.
  • Act as a liaison between the sales and engineering teams to provide optimal solution to the customers.
  • Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, keeping in mind security, performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and cost.
  • Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized.
  • Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
  • Providing deep application architecture knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns and application modernization.
  • Advising and implementing Azure best practices, Well architected review.
  • Working as both an infrastructure and application migration specialist.
  • Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment.
  • Instill best practices for service execution. Drive for engineering excellence including automation, quality, efficiency, and productivity.
  • Develop methods for providing large scale services effectively.
Nice to Have:
  • Work with Technology leadership to grow the Cloud & DevOps practice. Create cloud practice collateral
  • Determine needs around using Secure protocols and creating/maintaining/ updating certificates in either the AWS native tools, or integrating with on-prem certificate stores.
  • Help with optimizing the architecture to reduce the end-to-end latency, by using the Global Accelerator, latency/proximity Route 53 based policies etc
  • Help with design to keep multi-region system of engagement data in sync between regions and on-prem, Kinesis/Kafka replication, GoldenGate Oracle replication etc
  • Drive discovery workshops, able to create proposals and SoW post discovery workshops
  • Work directly with sales teams to improve and help them drive the sales for Cloud & DevOps practice
  • Write whitepapers and technology blogs to be published on social media and Intuitive website.
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