Azure Architect Job Description
Azure architect
provides guidance on network security, Azure Policies and Blueprints, Azure Monitor and Azure security and governance mechanisms.
Azure Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Design and implement advanced functions of Office 365 and/or Azure AD Premium including security, governance and compliance
Provide second level support for issues wrt to compute, network and storage on AWS and Azure
Strong understanding of features and capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud Platform (Security, Firewalls, RedisCache, Key Vault, Service Bus, ASR, Networking, OMS, Blob Storage, Resource Groups, NSG, Application Insights, SQL Server, Sql DB, Load-Balancers)
Design and implementation of ADFS identity solutions for more than Microsoft Office 365
Designing Solutions in Microsoft Azure as per project specifications and needs
Drive architecture and technical discussion to lead cloud security, privacy, and compliance decisions scale, performance, agility, HA/DR considerations
Configure and manage customer AWS / Azure cloud environment
Ability to analyze systems and identify problems migrating to Azure cloud
Implement CI/CD based application development methodology using tools like Jenkins/TFS/powershell
Work with clients to ensure smooth and successful implementation, delivery and deployment of complex solutions
Azure Architect Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Azure Architect
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: MCSD, CCNA, MCSE, ITIL, SCRUM, AZ500, MCSA, AZURE, II, IAT
Education for Azure Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the azure architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Education, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Math, Science, Information Systems, Business
Skills for Azure Architect
Desired skills for azure architect include:
Microsoft Azure
Databases used with SAP
SAP Architecture
Security
Design
Azure SQL
Storage
Azure
C#
Automation and devops implementation
Desired experience for azure architect includes:
Solid solution architecture and light development skills—you will need to be able to deliver deep technical content and at the same time bridge that technical knowledge with mature, business discussions
A can-do attitude that always puts the customer and our partner first
At least 5 years of experience in Solution Architecting
Must be a AWS Certified professional
10+ years of experience with VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Active Directory and Windows Operating Sys-tems
Projects focus around deploying and customizing the latest Microsoft cloud solutions, specifically Azure and Office 365
Azure Architect Examples
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Azure Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for an azure architect. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for azure architect
- Take an active role in operational and business-development aspects of the consulting practice
- Support migration of on-premise email and collaboration services to the Microsoft Cloud
- Migrating applications to Cloud using Tools like AppZero, ASR
- Travelling to/working at client sites based on project requirement
- Drive the technical decision at the customer to buy, architect, develop or adopt their SAP solution based on Microsoft technology
- Explain, demonstrate, and prove in-depth what Microsoft’s products and services can do in conjunction with SAP software on Linux or Windows and how to enable and manage them for the largest enterprise customers by driving technical presentations, demonstrations, ADSs, PoC’s, Pilots, and provide RFP support leveraging P-Sellers, partners or MCS as needed
- Apply architectural experience to make tradeoffs at different layers of the architecture by keeping end customer scenarios business goals, cost and complexity in mind
- Develop partner engagements around SAP workload for driving the sale, deployment, and adoption of Microsoft solutions
- Orchestrate SAP solutions with other technical resources (internally and from Partner) for other Microsoft products and services
- Builds PoCs of offerings and demo with SAs
Qualifications for azure architect
- Be familiar with Cloud, C#/HTML5/JS/.NET at a minimum, architectural design patterns, and the agile method(s)
- 6-8 years of consulting experience designing and delivering Microsoft infrastructure Strong understanding of network protocols/services and network infrastructures
- Demonstrated ability to understand a customer's needs and articulate technologies to business stakeholders
- Must be willing to travel 80% of the time to the customer locations across the US
- Deep Microsoft technical skills and strong technical delivery of complex projects through a proven methodology such as MOF, Agile, ITIL, TOGAF or similar project approaches
- Minimum seven years of Microsoft engineering experience in a business-to-business, large/strategic customer segment
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Azure Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of azure architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for azure architect
- Create functional design specifications, Azure reference architectures, and assist with other project deliverables as needed
- Assess and develop application modernization architecture towards re-platforming towards Azure PaaS services including
- Supporting the Pre-Sales process, scoping out technical requirements and solutions to meet the strict security and performance requirements of prospective clients
- Provide recommendations to clients with respect to cloud migrations and prepare technical implementation roadmaps for Azure adoption
- Learn, learn, and learn by staying up-to-date on all technical developments related to Azure and other public cloud platforms
- Proficient with data migrations utilizing Python, Powershell & Microsoft Solutions
- Effectively lead teams of Architects and Engineers building cloud services that may be organisationally and geographically distributed
- Ability to mentor Architects and engineering staff
- Participate with contract discussions that involve technical decisions
- Candidates should expect travel of up to 25%
Qualifications for azure architect
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience in defining and implementing Azure based large solutions
- Experience and understanding of security requirements for cloud like IAM, Web Application Firewalls, Data protection
- Experience in building CI/CD methodology in Azure using technologies like VS online, Jenkins, TFS
- Understanding about the challenges and considerations to be catered for while migrating applications from on-premise to Azure
- Knowledge of migrating applications to Cloud using Tools like AppZero, ASR etc will be nice to have
- Fundamental knowledge of AWS is also required and understanding on how Azure IaaS v/s AWS IaaS compares to each other and conceptual knowledge of AWS RDS is desired
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Azure Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of azure architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for azure architect
- Analyzes emerging technologies, influences technology decisions and direction of project solutions
- Collaborates with DB2B Studio team members to fully understand business requirements and create clear functional specifications outlining the client requirements
- Monitors progress and status of tasks and deliverables on projects and escalate issues and risks timely
- Provides on-going support to business and content teams on strategic technology platform, quality assurance and issue resolution
- Interacts with stakeholders and has the executive presence to influence direction, sell ideas, roadmaps, and approaches
- Directly manages and mentors development team members
- Improving the platform offering through a combination of the automation of manual tasks, introduction of innovative technologies & practices, scoping, implementation and documentation of processes and policies
- Assisting in daily Business as Usual duties such as server stand-up, user account administration, ensuring server up-time, and system patching
- Position yourself as a trusted advisor to CTP's clients, and partner with them to understand their requirements for cloud implementations
- Collaborate with other project teams on technical solutions and help improve CTP's service IP
Qualifications for azure architect
- Soft Skills such as writing Proposals and Presenting up to C-Levels is a must
- Preferably from Developer background (.net, Java)
- Microsoft Azure 70-534 certification desirable
- Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with peers and upper management
- The right candidate is an Azure Admin and should have the following traits
- A motivated, self-driven individual, focused on consulting around cloud-based solutions and services
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Azure Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for an azure architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for azure architect
- Will design, develop and supervise implementation of test plans and report findings, in addition to making recommendations to appropriate stakeholders
- Architecting, designing and building Cloud solutions to business requirements in accordance to enterprise application and technology roadmaps, principles, standards and guidelines
- Actively supports sales pursuits focused on Cloud services delivery including C-level conversations and presentations
- Developing migration strategies to move key application workloads into the Cloud
- Developing and maintenance of cloud based IP
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR DELIGHTING CUSTOMERS - The Engagement Methodology and the Operations Framework define the standards to deliver projects and managed services that will delight our customers
- Implementation – lead first-to-market advanced technology pilots and engagements to help establish us as the first-choice provider of Advanced Technology solutions, conduct technology envisioning sessions, perform technology readiness assessments, health checks, and project milestone reviews and deliver technical training as required by customers
- Operations –take practice business plans and create technical roadmaps and strategies for implementation and operations, drive updates to our Operations Framework and establish cross-technology designs and plans
- Participate in assessing current infrastructure environment
- Other typical duties performed by the architect include collaborating with staff, users and senior management on in reviewing new and existing projects, systems designs and plans
Qualifications for azure architect
- Not looking for individuals who have only served as admins during these migrations
- Someone with solid understanding of Linux technologies would be nice since there is only one individual on the team with Linux
- Azure/Office 365/Windows/Linux/Systems Center/UCS/NetApp still top skillsets
- Design, implement, and enhancements to Cassandra
- IaaS experience
- DBaaS experience
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Azure Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of azure architect. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for azure architect
- Previous experience working in regional roles for a multi-national vendor
- Bachelor's Degree and/or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Ability to organize and manage to deadlines and work collaboratively and independently
- Familiarity with Federal policies supporting Open Government, Open Data and Digital Government
- DSC
- Strong understanding of modern applications and API technologies
Qualifications for azure architect
- Azure is most important skillset, looking for Lead engineer/Architect level of individuals who have seen & completed migrations of On-premise workloads to Azure (AD, Exchange, Office 365) from start to finish
- AWS/Azure/PVC cloud Solution engineer
- Minimum one year of experience on Spark, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Tuning of Spark and Kafka, resolution of issues during run time wrt to Spark and Kafka
- Microsoft Azure Infrastructure design and implementation experience
- PowerShell Scripting and IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Azure Automation