Azure Architect

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As an Azure Architect, you will be creating and delivering high-performing digital platforms, including mobile and web solutions. You’ll have the opportunity to design new systems or re-design current applications.
Azure Architect at Zensar take end-to-end ownership of projects and provide valuable expertise in the software development life cycle, from concept, architecture, design, implementation, and testing.

Responsibilities:
Managing and owning all aspects of technical development and delivery
Understanding requirements and writing technical architecture documents
Ensuring the code reviews and development best practices / processes to be followed
Planning end-to-end technical scope of the project and customer engagement areas, including planning sprint and deliveries
Estimating efforts, identifying risks, and providing technical support whenever needed
Demonstrating the ability to multitask and re-prioritizing responsibilities based on dynamic requirements
Leading and mentoring small-sized teams

Skills required to contribute:
Azure Architect you will be responsible for providing highly available highly scalable automated deployments to Azure.
You will specialize in the technical areas of expertise as described below:
Work closely with the business, client architects and developers to drive the design and development of high-quality technical solution deployments (incl. production, test and dev environments).
“Hands on” development and peer reviews as required, exercising troubleshooting and methodical diagnostic skills to resolve issues.
Participation in component or architectural or solution design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and recommendations
Experience in representation on Project Management teams and occasional Steering Boards will be a plus.

Technical Experience
Relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree 
Minimum 5 years of previous experience working with Microsoft Azure
Relevant certifications
Strong experience in:
·        Azure Core Platform: Compute (IAAS & PAAS), Storage and Networking
·        Microservice based implementations using Azure native services
·        Experience with APIM, WAF, Front door and strong understanding of networking services
·        Identity and Authentication Patterns (MFA) with Azure AD, Okta or any other 
·        Azure HA/DR, scaling, and backup solutions 
·        Azure Logging and monitoring architecture
·        Docker Experience, such as writing Dockerfiles, understanding Docker Networking and Service Discovery
·        Containerization orchestration, specifically, AKS and Kubernetes with HELM Charts