Azure Architect

AZURE Architect

Long Term

Washington DC-2 day per week onsite

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Job Description

Description

Client is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team in Washington, DC. The Azure Cloud Engineer's primary responsibilities include responsibility for the architecture design/planning, management, support, and oversight of the Azure PaaS/IaaS environment.

Job Duties

· To conceptualize, design and architect the Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS)/Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) environment.

· Develop the architecture and design deliverables and provide support as an Azure SME.

· Gather specifications and deliver solutions to the organization based on understanding of Microsoft Azure domain/technology.

· Effectively present public and hybrid cloud-based architectural design concepts and solutions to all levels in the organization.

· Drive decision making, identify alternatives, pros and cons, and make recommendations.

· Anticipate when architectural change will be needed and prepare the organization for a successful transition.

· Build public and hybrid cloud-based, optimized reference applications/infrastructure, show-casing event driven, elastically scalable, fault tolerance and other cloud architecture patterns.

· Drive public and hybrid cloud-based, proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged.

· Identify, analyze and resolve the most complex public and hybrid cloud-based issues. Identify and balance risks and rewards to meet objectives.

This role requires on site work in Washington, D.C. 2 days per week.

Qualifications

· Three (3) years’ experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization

· Direct experience in Cloud platform technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, etc.

· Proven expert knowledge of virtual application delivery technologies

· Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies

· Experience supporting and documenting build and configuration changes throughout environments

· Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

· Experience in the design, deployment, and support of large, complex systems

Clearance: Must be able to attain Public Trust

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $63.82 - $90.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Azure devops: 10 years (Required)
• IaaS: 10 years (Required)
• PaaS: 1 year (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Washington, DC 20001: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person