Remote Azure Architect

Summary

Join the Quisitive team as an Azure Architect to contribute to a high-performing culture, continue learning, and deliver innovative solutions that make a real impact on customers' business. This senior-level role involves designing and implementing cloud solutions, deploying Azure-based technologies, and serving as Enterprise Architect for clients.

Requirements

• Deep Understanding of: Azure Infrastructure as a Service – Compute, Storage, Network
• Azure Policy
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Log Analytics/Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Overall understanding of key concepts of Azure
• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate. A willingness to obtain these in the first month will be accepted

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers at the CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships
• Define architectural roadmaps including Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
• Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts
• Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies
• Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers
• Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams
• Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants
• Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Platform as a Service – Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Data Factory
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure Custom Policies
• Azure DevOps
• Familiarity with ITIL framework and ITSM toolsets
• Microsoft Certified – Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure