Infrastructure Azure Architect - Charlotte, United States - Tek Leaders Inc

Description

Role: Infrastructure Azure Architect

Duration: Long Term

Location: Charlotte, NC

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating solutions and presenting compelling recommendations to customers.
• Define operational procedures and practices
• Define KPIs and set up appropriate health-checks, monitoring and escalation procedures
• Accelerate development for roadmap features, to address specific customer requirements
• Identify ongoing risks and pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures.
• Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to the knowledge base, blogs, and brown bag lunches.
• Capture project lessons and convert them into architectural best practices applicable to the broader install base; mentor and coach the internal team through internal training sessions.
• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to review customer requirements and feedback, and identify opportunities for platform enhancements Skills and Knowledge:
• Knowledge of enterprise cloud solutions, deploying and running solutions in a cloud environment, and private, public, and hybrid clouds
• Extensive experience with Internet technologies and protocols like TCP/IP, VPN, SSL and HTTP
• Hands-on experience with public and private cloud services (AWS, Openstack, VMWare, ect) as well as load balancers and networking devices
• Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery / fail-over infrastructures
• Development experience with database or application integration technology
• Deep knowledge of Linux fundamentals
• Knowledge of Open Source architectures and/or past contributions to open source projects
• Design, development and operations experience with highly-available, scalable, and fault tolerant systems
• Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
• Professional Cloud Solutions Architect (PCSA) Certification years of experience.