What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Azure Architect position at Vantage Point Consulting?
We have an urgent requirement for a Senior Azure Architect. The resource would work from the client site ( Montpelier VT or Addison TX).
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Delivery
" You will lead development and enhancement of automation of cloud enablement tools
" You will drive implementation of the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption
" You will lead delivery of project support as a subject matter expert in infrastructure technologies
" You will help lead incident resolution and resolution of business issues
" You possess the ability to communicate effectively with an appropriate level of detail to all levels within the company
" You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk
" You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and are familiar with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy
" You will drive innovation and encourage others to remain current on emerging technologies and development trends
" You will lead the delivery of collaborative cloud solution architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices
" You will lead development, design, and implementation of platform architectures that will support key software development and deployment processes
" You will lead and review cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures
Job Requirements
" Bachelor's degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
" 15 years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role.
" 4 years of hands-on experience and knowledge working in public cloud technologies and solutions (Azure Preferred)
" 3 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in production environments
" 2 years of hands-on experience and knowledge of platform architecture and technologies
" Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others
" Show up consistently with a positive attitude
" Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority.
" Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
" Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
" Certifications in Azure are highly desirable
" Experience with OpenAI and AI Technologies are highly desirable
" Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical expertise in at least two of the following areas
" Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)
" Public Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.)
" Networking (CDN, SD Wan, Load Balancing, WAF, etc.)
" Monitoring & Instrumentation (New Relic, Splunk, Zenoss, etc.)
" Systems Administration (Windows, Linux, Active Directory, SCCM, etc.)
" Automation Technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.)
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Delivery
" You will lead development and enhancement of automation of cloud enablement tools
" You will drive implementation of the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption
" You will lead delivery of project support as a subject matter expert in infrastructure technologies
" You will help lead incident resolution and resolution of business issues
" You possess the ability to communicate effectively with an appropriate level of detail to all levels within the company
" You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk
" You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and are familiar with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy
" You will drive innovation and encourage others to remain current on emerging technologies and development trends
" You will lead the delivery of collaborative cloud solution architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices
" You will lead development, design, and implementation of platform architectures that will support key software development and deployment processes
" You will lead and review cloud-native and hybrid solution architectures
Job Requirements
" Bachelor's degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
" 15 years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role.
" 4 years of hands-on experience and knowledge working in public cloud technologies and solutions (Azure Preferred)
" 3 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in production environments
" 2 years of hands-on experience and knowledge of platform architecture and technologies
" Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others
" Show up consistently with a positive attitude
" Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority.
" Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
" Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
" Certifications in Azure are highly desirable
" Experience with OpenAI and AI Technologies are highly desirable
" Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical expertise in at least two of the following areas
" Virtualization Technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)
" Public Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.)
" Networking (CDN, SD Wan, Load Balancing, WAF, etc.)
" Monitoring & Instrumentation (New Relic, Splunk, Zenoss, etc.)
" Systems Administration (Windows, Linux, Active Directory, SCCM, etc.)
" Automation Technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure-As-Code, etc.)
