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Avanade

Future Opportunity: Azure Infrastructure Cloud Architect

St. Louis, MO

Recruiting for the Future

This posting is for a future job opportunity.

To support the needs of our clients, Avanade is actively recruiting and interviewing for the role outlined below, as we continue to build on another year of growth in our business. Now, with more than 60,000 employees around the globe, we are positioning our organization to effectively prepare for the future. What does this mean for you? We encourage you to apply and interview for this role without the need to decide now. This allows you to connect with leaders and hiring managers at a pace that works for you and when roles become available, you will be the first know.

About the Role

As a Senior Azure Infrastructure Architect, you will lead teams to plan, analyze, design, build, test and deploy enterprise Microsoft technology infrastructures in the Azure Public Cloud. You will apply functional knowledge and technical expertise in the designing of systems to support customer needs and you will contribute to our vast repository of intellectual property. Additionally, you will coach, train, and mentor team members and customers. And, you will occasionally be involved in the selling of Avanade solutions, proposal development, change requirements, some marketing/PR initiatives, and developing customer relationships and analyzing the customer's business.

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You are involved with the following:

Azure infrastructure enterprise level projects that design and deploy cloud environments for hosting business application services
Designing, testing, and implementing application services migrations in both a manual and automated manner
Working closely with client operational resources in updating their on-premises practices to include cloud
Managed a combination of on-shore and off-shore resources
Working closely with application, network, and security teams to ensure requirements are reflected appropriately in the Azure design
Travel to client locations as needed

About you

You are a solid technologist with strong business skills. You are as comfortable working with a technical team as with client business users, and you know how to build bridges between the two. With your excellent communications skills, you are adept at mapping business needs to technology solutions and helping non-technical audiences understand the benefits of these solutions.

Your skillset likely includes:

Consulting experience with large scale migrations to Cloud Providers such as Azure, AWS, Google, IBM
Knowledge of infrastructure solutions, especially in relation to Microsoft programs, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, and cloud technologies.
Knowledge of operation management, systems security, testing, databases and mobility considerations as well as working with global teams and offshore resources.

Communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Multiple years of demonstrated experience in Systems Administration or Systems Engineering.

2+ years in a technical position using Cloud technologies
Knowledge of Oracle and/or SQL databases
Linux (RHEL, CentOS) experience
Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated hands-on experience on one or more of the following domains:
Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking (core need)
Monitoring, alerting and logging tools, and build/release processes highly preferred
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery models
General automation, Azure Automation, Azure CLI, Ansible highly preferred, PowerShell scripting. (core/highly desirable)
Familiarity with authentication patterns (mfa)
Familiarity with network topologies and technologies (DNS...) with emphasis on network gateway devices (ingress/egress)
Familiarity Web Technologies. (web servers, proxies, certificates)
Application migration experience (vmware) would be a plus
Demonstrated experience with azure cloud infrastructure, including automation/infrastructure as code.
Azure Kubernetes Service Design and implementation experience
One or more Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Containers and Hyper-V containers)
* Understanding of Container management strategies

Client-provided location(s): St. Louis, MO, USA
Job ID: avanade-471278636
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
  • Professional Development

    • Leadership Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Woman founded/led
    • Black founded/led
    • Latinx founded/led
    • Asian founded/led
    • LGBTQ+ founded/led
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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