Azure Solutions Architect Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Azure Solutions Architect to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Azure infrastructure enterprise level projects that design and deploy cloud environments for hosting business application services;
- Working closely with application, network, and security teams to ensure requirements are reflected appropriately in the Azure design;
- Designing, testing, and implementing application services migrations in both a manual and automated manner;
- Working closely with client operational resources in updating their on-premise practices to include cloud;
- Develop PoC as and when required;
- Provide expertise and leadership regarding solutions for infrastructure and applications in Microsoft Azure;
- Demonstrate thought leadership in cloud computing across multiple streams;
- Develops technical roadmaps for future Azure cloud implementations;
- Ensures security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions.
Requirements:
- Experience working in the Microsoft Azure Solution;
- Passion for continuous improvement and advancing technology solutions;
- Strong understanding of the following: Cloud native architecture principles;
- Extensive experience in the consulting industry, technical leadership, and/or sales support;
- Modern architecture techniques (e.g. event driven architectures, stream processing, event sourcing/CQRS, Event storming);
- Experience building enterprise web applications using .NET/SQL Server;
- Strong client management and communication skills; credible and professional presence;
- In-depth experience architecting complex Azure public/private Cloud platform solutions (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS);
- Reputation for being a leader in the Cloud field; someone that Microsoft sees as a leader in Cloud strategy/technologies today or in the future;
- API design and security practices;
- Containerization and PaaS approaches and tools (e.g., Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Docker Enterprise, Azure Stack);
- Ability to work with ambiguity and visualize solutions for emerging concepts;
- Experience architecting and implementing both PaaS and IaaS enterprise solutions;
- Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments required;
- 2+ years of experience as an Azure Cloud Solutions Architect.