Principal Infrastructure Architect leading Azure Infrastructure practice at OpsGuru. Guiding clients and managing a team while driving cloud technology adoption.
Responsibilities
Report directly to OpsGuru Leadership.
Confidently discuss every stage of the technology adoption cycle, all the way from the CEO to the developer, across multiple technical domains.
Identify and implement opportunities to use AI to streamline infrastructure delivery and simplify internal consultancy processes.
Assigned to several accounts and are expected to work with their clients to become a trusted technical advisor in Azure Infrastructure and Data enablement.
Thought leadership.
Guide and challenge clients in a respectful manner to ensure they receive the highest level of value from their technology investments.
Provide oversight to project teams to ensure technical outcomes align to solving customer business problems within project budgets and timelines.
Work with Engagement Managers to help manage project scope, and work with project teams and customers to help manage project expectations and delivery quality.
Participate in the sales process, typically in a pre-sales or equivalent capacity.
Work alongside our Account Executives and Presales Architects to scope and provide support on creating statements of works for our clients, as well as being heavily involved in account management.
Requirements
10+ years of experience in a relevant information technology environment.
5+ years of experience delivering professional services as a Principal Consultant or equivalent leadership role, focused on infrastructure and platform workloads on Microsoft Azure
Azure Infrastructure Adoption or Azure Cloud migration in enterprise and small to medium-scale environments (IaaS, Networking, Security)
Data Platform / analytics infrastructure on Azure (eg. Azure Data Factory, Azure Fabric, Synapse)
Microservices adoption on Azure (eg. AKS, Azure Container Apps)
Infrastructure as Code adoption (Terraform, bicep)
Cost optimization for Azure infrastructure
Demonstrated experience using AI tools and LLMs to simplify workflows, automate repetitive architectural tasks, and improve personal and team productivity.
A history of delivering presentations to a wide-ranging audience including CxO and VP level executives.
A history of managing multiple complex projects with a wide variety of stakeholders simultaneously.
Sales experience, preferably in a pre-sales function.
A history and ability to confidently model costs and explain the total cost of ownership model of various methods of hosting infrastructure on Azure.
A history of handling customer requests and escalations.
Ability to adapt your communication style to individual team members.
Be an ambassador for the company by being able to explain our business mission and values to customers.
Able to provide candid and constructive feedback to team member.
Have a bias to take ownership of challenges facing your team and see them through to conclusion.
An instinct to ask why to get a deeper understanding of problems.
Ability to establish trust with your team and invest in building professional relationships.
Able to have gap analysis conversations and help team members define effective goals.
Ability to inspire and motivate others without needing to micromanage.
Strong emotional intelligence and listening skills.
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