Azure Architect

What You Will Do

• Partner directly with customer leaders, including Directors, CIOs, and CTOs, to support executive briefings and innovation initiatives.
• Lead customer architecture efforts and work closely with Quisitive’s Azure Management Services operations team and client support teams to achieve defined objectives and service metrics.
• Define architecture and operational roadmaps, including disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Build a deep understanding of each customer’s Azure environment, cloud adoption position, and use of compute, storage, databases, networking, and modern workloads.
• Architect solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements, and create or review architecture and solution design artifacts.
• Drive complex, high-visibility initiatives with critical dependencies across technical and business teams.
• Guide modernization, architecture, disaster recovery, and business transformation activities.
• Identify, communicate, and help mitigate risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assess on-premises and cloud infrastructure, document current operating costs, and recommend practical improvements to customer technical and business stakeholders.
• Support day-to-day operations while contributing to larger strategic initiatives.

How You Will Lead

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor who can connect architecture decisions to customer priorities and business outcomes.
• Collaborate across customer, operations, support, and delivery teams to keep work aligned and moving forward.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to peers and less-experienced consultants.
• Help develop and refine standard operating procedures that improve client support processes and the overall customer experience.
• Use tools and specialized solutions thoughtfully to solve customer challenges.

Core Azure Expertise

• Azure Infrastructure as a Service, including compute, storage, and networking
• Azure Policy
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Log Analytics and Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Identity and access management
• Security and compliance
• Broad knowledge of core Azure concepts and services

Preferred Experience

• Azure Platform as a Service, including Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Data Factory
• Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates, or Azure custom policies
• ITIL practices and IT service management toolsets

Certifications

• Required: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure