A leading technology organisation is seeking a Azure Cloud Architect to join their team.
Your new company
As an Azure Cloud Architect, you will be working on pre-sales engagement and alignment of services to the delivery team. You will own the Azure Cloud Infrastructure technical customer engagements including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or pilots. You should have experience in customer-facing roles and success in leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management.
Your new role
As Azure Cloud Architect in the engineering team, you will be responsible for:
- Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc)
- Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
- Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness during presales engagement
- Apply Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, Design Patterns and Well-Architected Framework to solution design during pre-sales stage
- Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform
- Be able to work with implementation team to handhold them with solution design and handshake the agreed solution to the delivery architect for implementation
- Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community
- Work with Head of Cloud as the competency leader to create new service offerings as well as to contribute to the development of service description, scope of work of the new offerings
- Work with Head of Cloud to optimize existing offerings with updates to service descriptions, scope of work
- Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, as well as internal communities and be a mentor to guide new members for training and certifications
What you'll need to succeed
- Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology related field, or IT equivalent
- 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation
- Certified as Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies
- Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects
- Excellent presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
- Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
- Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS)
- Expert Knowledge in Containers and Policy-as-Code, IaC would be advantageous
- Knowledge in GCC presales working knowledge will be advantageous
- Knowledge of other cloud platforms AWS & Google Cloud would be advantageous
What you'll get in return
In return, you'll be part of an organisation that values its employees. You will have a structured career growth and plenty of global developmental opportunities.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or email [email protected] for a confidential discussion on your career. Referrals are welcome.
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