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DESCRIPTION

Are you an industry visionary and technologist at heart with a passion for designing complex Cloud solutions? Are you able to guide and advise business and IT teams on the technical and organisational challenges of Cloud transformation? Do you have strong soft skills, solid stakeholder management and technology governance experience? Do you want to transform businesses, so they are able to operate and grow successfully in the cloud-first world?

Then you have an opportunity to join as a Senior Cloud Systems Architect to work with highly skilled and engaged teams across the globe to build Azure Cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

Work closely with business in identifying solution requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for the future solution
Enable Azure cloud journey, analyze TCO and create a business case, make the Cloud dream become reality
Design and prototype Azure infrastructure, create infrastructure and security architecture documents covering deep technical aspects of the implementation
Create a unified strategy for Azure cloud transformation governance, automation, security, implementation, and operations
Analyze existing application and IT services portfolios, develop asset migration, transformation and automation roadmap
Conduct Azure infrastructure architecture review/audit and create review/audit reports
Lead implementation of the solution from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
Oversee the Azure system engineering efforts and provide technical help as needed
Day-to-day lead the client through the technical and organizational challenges of Cloud transformation
Participate in the full cycle of pre-sale activities, including RFP processing, proposal development and direct communications with potential clients
Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices
Create thought leadership on Azure solutions and hybrid clouds
Serve as an Azure evangelist, consult and provide technical guidance on Azure solutions design, build, governance, security, operations and cost control best practices

Requirements

Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support which includes migrating, architecting, operating on premises and cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
Experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to the public cloud
Depth in various migration techniques such as rehost, refactor, re-architect, re-platform, repurchase, etc
Deep expertise in public and private cloud hybrid architecture, networking and connectivity. Fluency with design of deployment, configuration management automation (CI/CD), security automation (SAST/DAST), IT operations automation (AIOps) for different workload’s types
Experience with highly scalable, performant and mission critical architectures; cloud migration approaches and tools
Avid technologist, with deep expertise in modern cloud architecture and history of successful implementation of complex Azure solution
Deep understanding of cloud design patterns, cloud operations and cloud cost models with hands-on ability to implement best practices or suggest improvements
Ability to suggest competitive and innovative technical decisions, get client buy-in and deliver on commitments
Strong communication skills, ability to present technical ideas in business-friendly language
Analytical and problem-solving abilities
Azure certifications are expected