Azure Architect

Azure Architect

Here are the details of the 6-month contract for hire position with Client. This will be fully onsite near Sumter, SC at Shaw AFB. They are seeking an Azure Architect to be on premises 4-days per week.

About The Company

Client is an information technology services company headquartered in Beavercreek, Ohio delivers technical solutions supporting complex organizational objectives while solving business-driven challenges.

Position Summary

As an Azure Architect, your primary responsibility will be supporting our customers moving to Azure. You will

be working with the customer on creating high-level requirements and producing small POC/Design documents

on how Azure can be utilized for new applications or migrating existing applications to Azure. Your focus will

be on utilizing Azure as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) rather than just IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). This

highly visible position will be working with our government customers in the capacity of helping them

modernize and move to the cloud. This role does not require actual application development or migration of the

applications, rather leading the design and being the point of contact for a given application, assisting with

driving delivery of the customers' desired technical outcomes.

Duties:

Architecting applications that are either being developed on Azure as well as applications that are being migrated to Azure.

Managing the technical design of cloud services that span storage, networking, and compute cloud capabilities, with an understanding of each service across the full IT cycle.

Make recommendations for cloud migration on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, ensure sufficient capacity, monitor, and adjust as appropriate.

Convert the technical requirements of a cloud project into the cloud architecture and design

Bridging the gaps between complex business problems and solutions in the cloud, while working with other members of the technology team including DevOps engineers and developers to ensure that the

right technology or technologies are being built.

Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders who are both technically as well as non-technically skilled.

Minimum Requirements

BA or MS degree in Management Information System, Computer Information Systems, or related field.

Minimum of 5 to 7 years of applicable experience.

Be a US Citizen.

Ability to obtain proper security clearance.

Strong background in cloud computing with deep understanding of: Azure Virtual Machines, Storage, Virtual Networking, Inter-site Connectivity, Monitoring, Data Protection, Network Traffic Management, Azure Active Directory, Security Identities, Governance & Compliance, and Data Services

Excellent understanding of networking: TCP/IP, IP addresses, HTTP, DNS.

Possess a good understanding of computer programming and scripting languages while possessing a high-level understanding of key security concepts in the cloud.

Experience planning and migrating existing workloads to the cloud using cloud native tooling and be familiar with automated deployments and Infrastructure as code concepts.

Strong oral and written communication skills

Must be able to articulate your ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required to be onsite near Shaw AFB, SC 4 days/week due to sensitivity of information with the U.S. Government