Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Oblix It Partners Limited ,
London, Greater London
Salary: From £75,000 to £80,000 per annum

Overview

Senior Azure Cloud Solutions Architect to drive customer initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Platform. Position Responsibilities As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will own technical customer engagements developing architectural designs and leading solution implementations. You will collaborate and lead cloud engineers, application and database principal consultants to migrate complex customer enterprise applications to Microsoft Azure. Job duties: · Conducting client requirements meetings with principal business and application stakeholders. · Designing technically viable solution architectures based upon discovery collateral to meet customer business and IT needs. · Estimating and outlining solution approaches, expressing and articulating architecture, and design rationale. · Delivering optimal solution design patterns incorporating high levels of; o Performance o Disaster Recoverability o High Availability o Security o Scalability o Maintainability o Reliability · Calculating accurate Total Cost of Ownership for solutions. · Participating in defining deploy-able and documented cloud design patterns for Microsoft and Oracle Application stacks. · Designing Azure Blueprints for environment governance implementations. · Assuming a hands on leadership role during solution implementation. Experience/Knowledge/Skills The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers. · Detailed knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Azure and its relevant build, deployment, automation, networking, and security technologies. · Experience developing and refining solutions and services for Microsoft Azure Landing zones. · Technically capable of guiding extended teams during solutions development and deployment. · Excellent written and verbal communication skills for communicating with customers, technically and procedural. · Detailed knowledge of cloud security best practices. · Understanding of Infrastructure as Code methods · Experience using scripting languages such as Powershell and/or Bash. · Experience of leading enterprise migrations to the Azure Cloud. · Experience in designing, deploying and managing multiple large environments. · Excellent documentation experience and skills. · Detailed knowledge of all components of a technical architecture. · Strong understanding of network architecture. · Detailed knowledge of cloud architectural guiding principles. · ERP or SAP product migration project experience beneficial · Customer first mindset. Education and Other Quantification ? · A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related subject or equivalent experience. · At least one Microsoft Azure certification · Eight or more years of experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organisations This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89756106