Senior Azure Cloud DevOps Engineer : Sodexo

Cloud Competency Center, Sr. Azure Cloud Architect

Work Location: Buffalo/Cheektowaga, NY (100% Remote) Ability to Work Remote: Yes, candidate should be located in Eastern Time Zone, US (client will also consider someone in Central Time Zone open to working in Eastern Time).

Tentative Start Date: ASAP Term Duration (in months): 6 months (with possibility of extension) Working Hours (i.e. 8am – 5pm): 8:30am – 5:00pm, occasional after hours (as dictated by project requirements)

Regarding the two Sr. Azure Cloud Architect roles

There are two Azure Architect roles. The difference between architect 1 and 2 is architect 1 would be focused on automation, IaaC, Terraform (or similar technologies) whereas architect 2 is more general, to work on designing new applications.

Years of Experience Required

• 10 years of IT industry experience with 5+ years as an Architect
• Minimum 5-6 years of experience in designing, building, securing, and deploying applications and technologies to the Cloud
• Minimum 3 years of experience migrating from on-prem Data Centers to Azure Cloud and Hybrid Cloud environments

Required Qualifications

• Comprehensive experience architecting and integrating Cloud services in Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, APIM)
• Clearly articulate and communicate complex design solutions to technical, non-technical, and leadership
• Experienced in working in Azure, Hybrid, and integrating on-premises solutions
• Strong understanding across Cloud and infrastructure components (servers, Virtualization, storage, network data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs
• Create detailed solution design covering n-tier deployments, auditing, availability, disaster recovery, backup
• Work with the application, security, and infrastructure teams to create and validate solution design
• Leadership capability and proven ability to manage difficult stakeholders
• Significant experience in presenting ideas, products, concept papers to varied audiences
• Managed the end-to-end lifecycles of a project in a solution architect capacity
• Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design, and management
• Utilize and improve design patterns using reference architectures for new applications migrating to cloud
• Assist in supporting and troubleshooting Azure cloud incidents/outages following incidents

Desired Qualifications

• Debug network flows and identify potential roadblocks where policies, accesses, etc. need to be changed
• Experience with claim-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
• Certifications e.g., Microsoft, TOGAF, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL, etc.
• General awareness of DevOps techniques and methodologies
• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
• Hands-on experience with the following:
• Networking, vNets, peering, routing, NSGs, DNS, load balancer, firewall
• Azure Functions, Web Apps / Application Services, Application Service Environments, Azure Event Hub
• Application Gateway, SSL Deployments, Web Application Firewalls
• Azure Virtual Machine design and deployments (Linux, Windows)
• Azure Automation, Monitor, Backup, Defender for Cloud
• Azure DevOps
• Azure RBAC, strong understanding of built-in roles
• Azure PaaS Data
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect certification preferred