Cloud architect consultant

Job Description

As an Azure Cloud Architect Consultant, you will leverage your expertise in cloud systems architecture to design, implement, and support cloud-based solutions to meet complex business requirements in a secure and cost-effective manner while ensuring high availability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The following outlines the key responsibilities for this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as required and may not be included here.

• Provide expertise in enterprise infrastructure architecture to design, install, configure, and maintain solutions in a hybrid cloud environment.

• Promote effective designs and architecture standards to optimize and secure operating environments.

• Assist other Cloud Architects to develop and maintain technical standards for hybrid cloud environments.

• Collaborate across IT to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of technology infrastructure.

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Skills and Requirements

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

• Over seven years of experience in designing, implementing, and administering mission-critical, enterprise-class virtualization systems on public and hybrid cloud platforms.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.

• Proven experience managing large, highly available virtualized environments supporting 5,000+ end users and/or more than 2,000 virtual servers.

• In-depth knowledge of networking and connectivity with Azure and AWS.

• Proficient in Microsoft M365 configuration, migration, and administration.

• Hands-on experience with automating workflows and deploying cloud-based solutions.

• Advanced understanding of clustering services, load balancing, and replication technologies.

• Experienced in developing comprehensive virtualization strategies to address both current and future business requirements, including documentation, communication, implementation, and support.

• In-depth understanding of core infrastructure services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, and security principles.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a rotating on-call environment.

Desired Skills:

• Experience integrating SaaS applications with SSO.

• Background in datacenter consolidation and virtualization using Nutanix AHV solutions.

• Understanding of change control procedures, high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery concepts for distributed systems architecture.

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes (preferred) and Cloud Foundry.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or similar field.