Qualifications
- BE/ B.Tech/ MCA in computer science or related discipline with 10+ years of industry experience
- Certifications:
- Must have: AZ 300, AZ 301
- Nice to have: AZ 302, AZ 303, AZ 304
About the Position
As a part of the technology team at Xceedance, you will serve as a technical thought leader and SME for our public cloud ecosystem of partners, customers, and service providers. You will plan, analyze, design, test, and deploy enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure cloud IaaS and PaaS solutions. You will be a technical subject matter expert on both cloud and on-premises infrastructure systems. You will apply your technical expertise in Microsoft cloud offerings to promote innovative solutions to our customers. You will develop relationships with key customer stakeholders and help them achieve their business goals.
What you will do
- Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Lead the design and deployment of enterprise-scale Azure solutions
- Lead technical discussions with senior customer executives that drive decisions and implementation approaches
- Review and manage technical requirements and business functional requirements to establish new cloud platforms
- Design architectures with Microsoft Azure to meet clients’ technical, security, and business needs
- Execute on implementation plans to deploy Azure infrastructure and move workloads to Azure
- Assist in internal Service Delivery Framework and IP development
- Maintain all cloud systems including the front-end platforms, servers, storage, and management networks
What you will bring to the team
- 10+ years of proven experience in the IT industry with 4+ years in a cloud engineering role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms
- Excellent communication skills and Consulting experience with large-scale implementations on Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure solutions, including enterprise directories, on-premises hosting platforms (vSphere/Hyper-V), and datacenter storage and networking
- Experience and comfort with delivering technical design workshops for enterprise customers
- Knowledge of cloud system engineering principles and considerations
- Experience in cloud architectures, including web, application, and database components
- Experience with containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with cost optimization for the cloud Infrastructure and ensuring optimum utilization of cloud resources
- Experience with Azure Resource Manager (IaC), Resource Groups, Virtual Networks, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Blob Storage, PowerShell DSC, Azure Automation, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Site Recovery
- Experience with Azure Governance and Best Practices (Role Based Access Control, Networking Architectures, Cost Management controls, etc.)
- Understanding of Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure DevOps preferred
- Understanding of security/compliance requirements as it relates to Azure services and regions
- Experience with infrastructure automation, including configuration management (Puppet, Chef, or PowerShell DSC) and infrastructure provisioning (ARM Templates or Terraform)
- Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell / CLI) for deployment and management on Azure
- Understanding of scaling technologies and solutions
- Strong project and product management experience
- Capable of communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form