Azure Pre-Sales

Azure Presales Architect
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Conduct solution design review meetings with application team and other stakeholdersTransform requirements for new capabilities or changes from architecture, operations or customers to include them in the design of Public Cloud architecture.Ensure operational supportability of design, development, and engineering by working with operational support team in design and development such that the solution is operationally supportable technically and is properly documented operationally.Capture Lessons Learned through each iteration of development process and incorporate ongoing changes to processes and/or technology to improve effectivenessDesign automation services in the Public CloudWork on selecting the appropriate Azure service based on compute, data, networking, high-availability and security requirements.Create the detailed infrastructure design to operate the application software/services on Azure public cloud platformDiscuss with application manager/architects to understand requirements and document the detail requirements.Contribute in detail solution design for scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant hosting platform on AzureConduct Azure Cost Optimizations initiativesExperienced in micro services architecture and Dockers containers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:Bachelor’s degree in computers or equivalent.Azure Cloud Architect Certification highly desiredExcellent English communication skills (both written and verbal)A very strong customer focusAbility to juggle many tasks and projects in a fast-moving environmentBe a self-starter who is excited about learning new and emerging technologies.REQUIRED SKILLS:6-8 years of experience in a cloud infrastructure management/support role.Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AzureCapabilities to provide Azure operations and deployment guidance and best practicesExperience with a broad range of Azure technologies (e.g. VM’s, DB PaaS, Power BI, Blob Storage, Block Blob Storage, RBAC, Azure Monitor, Secrets, Functions, AKS, Express Route, VNET, Hub & Spoke, Private Links) to develop and maintain an Azure based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud securityExperience with DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration Management technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, Ansible.Infrastructure and Application monitoring across production and non-production platformsExperience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Kubernetes