Contractor job Azure Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect Azure

Our Client is looking to recruit a Cloud Architect with Azure to work on a new project.

Key responsibilities -

· Work as advisor/consultant to the customer on end to end journey to Azure.

· Assessment of on-premises infra landscape, application rationalization and recommend strategy, roadmap and structured plan for migration to Azure.

· Develop complex, end to end, enterprise scale solutions for migration to Azure.

· Develop and review technical architecture design and recommend Azure best practices

· Customer facing role to lead & participate in architectural discussions and design workshops.

· Provide solutions critical issues identified migration to Azure.

· Design & develop innovative solutions, optimization solutions and automation solutions for build, engineer, migrate and operate on Azure.

 Required Experience -

· 10-15 years of total experience.

· 5+ years of experience in Azure with minimum 3 years as Architect.

· Should have exposure/experience building Accelerators, frameworks, and IPs for Cloud.

· CI/CD experience is required

· Docker, Kubernetes, IAC tools(Terraform/Cloudformation/ARM templates), Configuration Management tools(Chef/Puppet/Ansible) knowledge and experience is required.

· Expert in Azure Web Apps, Logic Apps, API Gateway, Application Gateways, VM Scale-sets, DB-PaaS, Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs for multi-tenant environments.

· Experience on Assessment – Discovery, Dependency Mapping, Wave planning, migration plan

· Experience on Mass Migrations with migration processes, factory model & migration toolsets.

· Experience on Cloud operations – Monitoring management, governance, compliance, and security.

· Proficiency in cloud adoption frameworks.

· Good understating on Transformational and Optimization projects related to Cloud.

· Advance level Certification [AZ-303 & AZ-304] on Azure is required.

· Strong knowledge of Cloud related tools on automation and optimizations.

· Excellent communication & presentation skills with considerable exposure in Client facing role.

· Ability to establish good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborate to drive a larger technology initiative/program.

· Excellent organization skills, attention to details and ability to multi-task

The Client is based in Geneva Switzerland – but the role will be remote from anywhere in Europe with meetings in person from time to time.

Rate will be dependent on experience.

Duration will be 6 to 12 months.

Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your daily rate and availability.