Job Location: New York, NY 10011

Job Title: Azure Architect Engineer

Duration: Fulltime

Target Start Date: ASAP

Job Description

USEReady has a great career opportunity for an Azure Architect and Engineer in New York City. This role provides a competitive salary and amazing benefits. This role will be primarily onsite with one remote day per week.

Summary :

The ideal candidate will assess, design, implement and provide hands on support scalable, high-performance assets in Azure that meets the needs of the business using both private and public cloud technologies. Plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration in Azure/cloud technologies where beneficial to drive next-generation business outcomes in a cost-effective manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Cloud Strategy Development: Design and develop a cloud roadmap and approved cloud solutions aligned with the organization's business objectives and technology roadmap.

· Architecture Design and Review: Define and oversee the architecture of cloud solutions, ensuring they meet scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.

· Solution Optimization: Continuously evaluate and optimize cloud services, configurations, and costs to maximize efficiency and ROI.

· Security and Compliance: Implement and oversee security best practices, access controls, and compliance measures within the cloud environment.

· Cloud Resource Management: Manage cloud resources using infrastructure as code (e.g., ARM templates, Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation tools.

· Virtual Machine Deployment: Deploy and manage cloud resources using infrastructure as code and automation tools.

· Expertise in Azure services including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Insight/Monitor, etc...

· Containerization and Kubernetes: Manage containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or similar platforms.

· Networking and Security: Configure cloud Virtual Networks, Subnets, Security Groups, and Network Security Groups to ensure secure and efficient communication.

· Monitoring and Alerting: Set up and manage Azure Monitor/Insight, Log Analytics

· Disaster Recovery and High Availability: Develop and implement disaster recovery and high availability strategies to ensure business continuity.

· Change management: Perform analysis of large-scale, complex, cross-system, cross-platform changes or issues. Provides recommendations for implementation and resolution.

· Documentation and Best Practices: Create and maintain detailed documentation of Azure architectures, configurations, and best practices. Drives cloud standards to for adopting cloud services to ensure consistency.

· Mentorship and Training: Provide guidance and mentorship to Azure engineers and other team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning.

· Perform tasks as required by management/supervisory staff.

· Provide support after hours, and/or on weekends as required.

· Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and communicate architectural decisions.

Required Experience:

· 8 years of work experience supporting a medium (over 500 servers) to large Microsoft Azure enterprise within an Infrastructure department.

· Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas and technologies quickly.

· Proficiency in Azure networking concepts (e.g., Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway).

· Strong knowledge of identity and access management in Azure (e.g., Azure AD, RBAC).

· Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for deploying and managing applications.

· Understanding of Azure security features, encryption methods, and compliance standards.

· Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, or similar, are a plus.

· Amazon product knowledge, management and support a plus. Knowledge of AWS services including AWS LightSail, AWS App Runner, PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudWatch, etc. preferred.

· Profound communication and stakeholder management skills.

· Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.

· Migrating legacy solutions to cloud is a plus.

· Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.

· Knowledge of vendor software integration and interaction patterns.

· Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.

· Expert knowledge of computing architectures.

· Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture discipline and frameworks.

· Strong understanding of Cloud service offerings and capabilities

· Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative, multi-stakeholder, multi-location environment.

· Experience conducting proof-of-concept, developing prototyping and building reference models.

· Excellent MS office (M365) skills including Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and MS Project or similar project management software tools.

· Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management.

· Vendor management experience is preferred.

Soft Skills :

· Detail oriented with excellent organization, motivation, influencing, analytical thinking, communication, negotiation, critical thinking and problem solving skills.

· Ability to plan and take initiatives to accomplish objectives in timely fashion.

· Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines.

· Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with vendors, project team members, supervisors, and employees from other departments.

· Excellent decision-making, leadership and team building capabilities; and

· Conflict resolution.

Education:

B.A. in Business Management, Information Technology, Financial Management or similar relevant field; Masters preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Project management certification desirable