Azure Solutions Architect - Onsite (No OPT & CPT Candidates) 9+ Yrs Exp is required

Roles & Responsibilities

• Understand customer's IT estate, LOB applications, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and cloud native solutions
• Collaborate with network, security, AD, backup, tools and application architects and SME's to develop enterprise grade solutions.
• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers.
• Define long term cloud strategy and mentor operations teams to implement the solutions
• Keep up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge
• Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.
• Act as a subject-matter expert on Microsoft Azure and assist Sales/Pre-Sales in RFP activities.

Requirements

• Subject matter level expertise on Azure Governance & Cost Management, Azure Network & Security, Azure Active Directory, Compute & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring
• Extensive experience in conducting design workshops, documentation of HLD (High Level Design) documents.
• Rich experience in Migration projects and hand-on experience with ASR/Azure Migrate
• Good Knowledge of Azure DevOps, ARM Templates & PowerShell scripting
• Experience in PaaS services and Containers is preferred.
• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively.
• Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)