Job: Azure Architect, Minneapolis

Azure Architect Location : Memphis, Tennessee /Minneapolis, MN Primary Skill (Technical Skill) : Azure PaaS Services Secondary Skill (Optional but good to have): DevOps & Infra Automation Experience Level :Overall 12 Years of experience in IT and minimum 4-5 years in Azure public cloud Roles and Responsibilities: 1. Responsible for developing technical, strategic & operational documents and Azure architecture as per customer requirement. 2. Experience in re-platform and re-architecting applications on Azure 3. Management of overall Azure cloud foundation element, Azure cloud IAAS & PAAS offerings in customer environment for manage services engagement. 4. Ensure to meet Azure cloud infra resources availability as per agreed SLA. 5. Work in collaboration with development team in establishing mature DevOps environments as per the requirement 6. Management of containers in Azure cloud / multi cloud environment using native and third party tools for containers management. 7. Schedule and run automated backup/restore jobs, integrated system monitoring and automated resources patching. 8. Optimize overall cloud resources usage, implementing best practices. Technical Skills : Experience in designing, architecting and implementation of Cloud Engineering solutions using Microsoft Azure Services. Assess and recommend public and hybrid Cloud solutions, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Containerization Cloud- Microsoft Azure In depth knowledge & working experience on Azure Subscription, Azure Network, ,Azure Active Directory, Express route, Azure security center, RBAC, Compute, memory, storage, HA, DR & back up as Solution Architect. Experience in provisioning of PaaS & Data Services including Azure App Services, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Cosmos DB etc. Should be conversant with using these services in Applications. Experienced in scripting with PowerShell / Python, REST, Azure CLI Experience in programming language like .Net, Java, Node JS, etc. Knowledge of managing Azure cloud on Infra as a code (IAC) mode using Azure blue prints, third party tools like Terraform & Ansible for resource provisioning & configuration management. Excellent documentation skills and the ability to articulate technical documentation to Azure project engineers. Work experience on Azure native tools like Azure monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Update, Azure security center, Azure cost management etc. Knowledge & work experience of CI/CD pipeline, tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Azure Devops & AKS Behavioral skills Excellent leadership skills such as being accountable for all cloud related tasks i.e. design, build, incidents, service request, problem records and changes. Customer centric & collaborative approach in professional life. Must have excellent communication skills both written and verbal