Azure Cloud Architect responsible for designing scalable cloud-native solutions at Opinov8. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure security and compliance in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
Design Azure-hosted solutions that meet business & technical requirements; Create highly-available scalable, reliable and secure cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance; Acts as the Azure Cloud Champion for the App Development and DevOps teams.
Ensure compliance with industry standards and firm policies; Works with the application architects, DevSecOps and Cyber Team, to review security questionnaires.
Advocates for the Architecture, Development, DevOps, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and Agile engineering procedures, quality engineering practices and advanced requirement capturing techniques for improving end-to-end delivery practices; Provide guidance to DevOps & development teams to ensure smooth integration of cloud solutions; Organizes and coordinates infrastructure architecture reviews as needed; Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members; Liaise with vendors and cloud providers to ensure proper delivery of services.
Monitor cloud systems and ensure they meet performance benchmarks and security requirements; Optimize cloud resources and cost through automation and monitoring; Implement disaster recovery strategy, ensure high availability of cloud resources.
Maintain up-to-date technical documentation; Report on cloud service performance and costs trends.
Requirements
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
5+ years of experience in designing, developing & deploying cloud architecture
Expertise in Azure Cloud platform including PaaS offerings like AKS, Azure SQL, APIM, Azure Service Bus etc
Experience with cloud-native technologies such as containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture
Strong knowledge of networking, security, and database management in cloud environment
Experience producing PoCs (Proof of Concept) to support the development and DevOps teams
Ability to translate traditional SDLC approach (plan, code, build, test, release, deploy and monitor) to the phases of agile development when writing software to automate cloud architecture related tasks.
NICE TO HAVE Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect certification.
Experience with DevOps practices & CI/CD pipelines.
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