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Lazard

Azure Cloud Architect

New York, NY

Azure Cloud Architect

Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, operates from 43 cities across 27 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. With origins dating to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals. For more information on Lazard, please visit www.lazard.com.

Lazard is looking for a Senior Cloud Architect and evangelist to join our rapidly evolving Cloud Platforms team. In this unique leadership role, you will engineer the core and foundational cloud services across multiple clouds with reuse and manageability in mind. Help build reusable architectural patterns for developers to build and migrate applications to cloud.

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This individual will provide technical leadership in architecting, implementing, and operationalizing the firm's hybrid cloud hosting zones. The focus will be on security, full-stack automation, monitoring, and developer experience. You will be developer advocate for Cloud capabilities to influence and work across diverse teams to design and implement easy to use hybrid cloud environments. You will partner with DevOps, Development, and Infrastructure teams with the goal of architecting the applications and how they leverage infrastructure services in cloud environments.

We'll trust you to:
  • Design and Implement Azure architectures and environments
  • Design Native Cloud Application Architectures or optimize applications for Azure
  • Collaborating within a project team to solve complex problems
  • Evangelize the Cloud across the development and IT teams
  • Responsible for the development of architecture blueprints for increased cloud adaption
  • Responsible for recommendation on Cloud architecture strategies, processes, and methodologies.
  • Be involved in design and implementation of best fit solution with respect to multi-cloud ecosystem
  • Use configuration management, orchestration, and management tooling to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards.
You'll need to have:
  • Deep understanding of Azure components and be well versed with the Azure well architected framework and can apply those principles while designing a solution.
  • Good understanding of Azure network and security engineering principles
  • Improve resiliency for all cloud applications and infrastructure and ensure that HA, DR, Data Protection requirements are appropriately engineered and implemented for each workload
  • Good communication skills with the ability to work with fluid requirements and shape them in collaboration with other team members
  • Solid Experience with one programming language like Java 8/above or Python version 3+
  • Strong Networking experience is a plus
  • Azure Architect or Developer certification is a plus
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Diversity and Inclusion at Lazard

Lazard is an intellectual capital business focused on delivering the best advice and solutions to clients. Achieving these objectives requires us to identify, develop and retain the best talent. A workforce comprised of people with varied backgrounds and experiences creates a rich diversity of thought that empowers us to challenge conventional wisdom, as diverse perspectives lead to better decisions.

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages | Robust health coverage, including non-traditional services such as Lasik eye surgery and egg freezing and storage | Annual Firm HSA contributions| annual credit for waiving medical coverage | LGBTQAI+ healthcare concierge |401(k) Plan and Firm matching contributions | After-tax 401(k) contribution option with Roth-in-Plan Conversion | Annual wellness reimbursement |Up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave | Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement |Back-up child and elder care services | Tuition Reimbursement | Resource Networks| Remote Flexibility

We expect the base salary range for this role to be approximately $135,000 - $180,000. Various factors contribute to determining the actual base compensation offered, including but not limited to the applicant's years of relevant experience, career tenure, qualifications, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, relevant skills for the role, and if applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. Base salary is one component of Lazard Corporate's compensation package, which also includes comprehensive benefits and may include incentive compensation.

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY, USA
Job ID: lazard-220233
Employment Type: Other