Azure Presales Architect

• 6-8 years of experience in a cloud infrastructure management/support role

Skills

• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on Azure • Capabilities to provide Azure operations and deployment guidance and best practices • Experience with a broad range of Azure technologies (e.g. VM’s, DB PaaS, Power BI, Blob Storage, Block Blob Storage, RBAC, Azure Monitor, Secrets, Functions, AKS, Express Route, VNET, Hub & Spoke, Private Links) to develop and maintain an Azure based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security • Experience with DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration Management technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, Ansible. • Infrastructure and Application monitoring across production and non-production platforms • Experience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Kubernetes..

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct solution design review meetings with application team and other stakeholders • Conduct solution design review meetings with application team and other stakeholders • Transform requirements for new capabilities or changes from architecture, operations or customers to include them in the design of Public Cloud architecture. • Ensure operational supportability of design, development, and engineering by working with operational support team in design and development such that the solution is operationally supportable technically and is properly documented operationally. • Capture Lessons Learned through each iteration of development process and incorporate ongoing changes to processes and/or technology to improve effectiveness • Design automation services in the Public Cloud • Work on selecting the appropriate Azure service based on compute, data, networking, high-availability and security requirements. • Create the detailed infrastructure design to operate the application software/services on Azure public cloud platform • Discuss with application manager/architects to understand requirements and document the detail requirements. • Contribute in detail solution design for scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant hosting platform on Azure • Conduct Azure Cost Optimizations initiatives • Experienced in micro services architecture and Dockers containers