Cloud Azure Architect

Role:

We are looking for an experienced cloud Azure .Net Architect, who will take ownership of application and is responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining it. Candidate will design, manage, maintain & optimize Azure infrastructure. This is Combination of Hands-on Senior Individual Contributor role with Team management and mentoring.

This role also requires having a product mindset where you will be working with various stakeholders across design, backend, and business to build a scalable platform that fulfills business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Be able to provide technical direction and lead a group of one or more architects to address a goal.
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts.
• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
• Proactively provide guidance on engineering methodologies, standards, and leading practices.
• Guidance of engineering staff and reviews of as-built configurations during the construction phase.
• Provide insight and direction on roles and responsibilities required for solution operations.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions throughout the full lifecycle.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction.
• Leadership skills are able to inspire others and persuade.
• Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof solutions.
• Knowledge and experience in IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used.
• Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.
• Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.

Required Skills:

• Total experience 12+ years.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in leading teams.
• Bachelor’s/master’s Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, or engineering discipline).
• Bachelor’s / master’s Degree or equivalency (CS, CE, or engineering discipline)
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Experience with multi-tier systems and service design and development for large enterprises.
• Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud technologies.
• Experience in developing highly scalable solutions to address application performance issues.
• Should have hands on experience in configuring AUTO-SCALLING in Azure.
• Should know how to configure observability in the cloud hosted applications.
• Should know how to follow 12 factor principles while developing apps.
• Should know how deploy Microservices in Azure Cloud.
• Should have configured Authentication using Azure AD.
• Should have hands-on experience in setting up Alert and creating custom dashboards for resource monitoring.
• Should have hands-on into AKS , VNET , Redis Cache , Application Insight, Azure serverless components, Azure PaaS services , Azure SQL , Security , Application Gateway.
• Should have used Azure Architectural Patterns in at least 2 project.
• Should have hands on experience of migrating at least 2 projects to Azure Cloud PaaS services from On-Premises.
• Should have hands on in Setting CI\CD pipelines.
• Should have hands on experience in setting up Architectural Governance.