SUMMARY;

• The Azure Cloud Solution Lead is responsible for managing a team through enterprise solution evaluation, cloud solution design, and engineering of business and technical solutions leveraging Azure.
• The job requires proven experience developing enterprise solutions in entirety (fully integrated on premise and cloud based solutions).
• This person will be responsible for leadership of Azure Architects and Engineers through the full systems migration lifecycle: requirements gathering, assessment, application migration and deployment.
• He/She will work closely with senior client executives and must demonstrate thought leadership and professional/technical knowledge of cloud implementation/migrations including the full suite of work products and deliverables.
• He/She will also apply subject matter expertise to identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve engagement productivity, increase efficiencies, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and optimize cost savings and efficiencies for each client.

TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

Architecting Azure Cloud Solutions

Planning cloud migrations

Leadership Skills

Architecture design patterns and cloud application assessment expertise

At least three questions and answers for must - to-have skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Enterprise Architect / Lead Azure Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience as an enterprise architect
• Proven cloud implementation/migration program management leadership experience
• Ability to lead a team through blueprint, design and deploy scalable, HA and fault tolerant systems on Azure
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in IT consulting
• Architecture design patterns and cloud application assessment expertise
• Managed assessment of applications that can be deployed in MS Azure or AWS
• Managed deployments of services to MS Azure or AWS
• Managed migrations of services to MS Azure or AWS
• Managed Release Planning and Go-Live from On-Prem to MS Azure or AWS
• Expert on Infrastructure Architecture with experience with virtualization technologies
• Proven knowledge of Windows, Linux, Automation Tools (Chef or Puppet,), AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3/EBS, etc.) or similar Public Cloud platform, and scripting languages (ARM Templates, PowerShell, JSON, Ruby, Perl or other) is a must
• Broad knowledge of systems infrastructure that power today’s modern and highly available web and mobile applications, with deep domain expertise in one or more areas: compute, networking, storage, high availability, cloud security, application performance
• Migration of existing on-prem applications to Azure
• Security focused solutions and workloads
• Ability to identify and enforce Azure architectural best practices
• Understanding of security compliance, managed services in cloud based workloads
• Embrace and focus on emerging technology and evangelize to the rest of the team
• Understanding of Agile, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment knowledge and experience.