Senior Azure Cloud Architect

As a Cloud Architect, you will craft and develop organization approaches to developing in developing customer enterprise cloud strategies by translating business requirements into scalable, flexible, and secure cloud architectures based on leading edge practices. You will utilize skills such as communication and previous learned experiences to address cloud related opportunities and solve business challenges for a variety of clients. The Cloud Architect catalogs, develops, documents, coordinates, communicates, and enforces the overall cloud strategy used by the organization for all cloud-related activities, as well as work with clients to communicate viable options to design their cloud transformation and fit their specific needs

In this role, you will:  

• Develop and coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas including (but not limited to) application hosting, identity and access management, network and data management, operations, scalability, business continuance, application development support, high availability, governance and security
• Establish reference architectures and procedures for developing cloud offerings and communicate them to clients and other teams
• Advise clients on leading cloud practices and architectural approaches
• Drive the design, estimation, planning, and implementation of cloud migrations and deployments
• Maintain project and enterprise level model consistency and integration
• Effectively communicate complex cloud architecture concepts to a non-technical audience
• Assist in aligning business and enterprise initiatives with Enterprise Architecture
• Build solutions focused on scaling, elasticity, and cost optimization
• Influence business and information integration strategies as it relates to the use of cloud native technologies by serving as an advisor to senior management
• Build client relationships by participating in business development activities
• Provide mentorship and coaching to technical team members
• Manage the Amazon Partner Network relationship to provide unmatched customer support and leverage sales pipeline opportunities
• Build enterprise solutions founded around DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, build automations, IaC, Log Analytics and Security.
• Implement domain level understanding of cloud infrastructure including compute, network, and storage in conjunction with cloud management areas such as automation, operation management, orchestration, SecOps and DevOps
• Build enterprise solutions focused around serverless technologies such as PaaS, container management (Docker/Kubernetes), and API integrations.

Who you are:  

• 7 years of IT and or software engineering work experience.
• 5 year working with Azure technologies
• Topology planning and cataloging with Azure Resource Groups, subscriptions and  Architect and deploy network components including subnet and VNet planning, VPN Gateway, SD-WAN, ExpressRoute and NSGs 
• Deploying and configuring Azure identity services including Azure AD, IAM, RBAC, SSO and MFA
• Extensive experience deploying Azure VM and App Service Environments
• Controlled and iterative migration of workloads from on-prem hosting platforms such as VMware and physical to Azure hosting
• Design and deploy highly available systems using availability sets, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Scale Sets, Azure Backup, and load balancing.
• Design, implement and maintain hardened security solutions using Azure Sentinel, Application Gateway, TLS certificates, Azure Firewall, Azure Defender and NSGs
• Work with Data systems such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Azure SQL and Managed Instances
• Reports on Cloud usage and costs logical taxonomy tagging
• Provide trending and forecasting to aid management in making budgetary decisions
• Provides operational maintenance and monitoring of Cloud-based solutions
• Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to automate, orchestrate and implement infrastructure as code through scripting
• Troubleshoot and support issues related to performance, security or capabilities of Cloud-based solutions
• Integrate Cloud-based solutions with other Cloud or on-premises workloads
• Collaborate with teams to provide technical guidance for Cloud options
• Identify inadequate or inefficient systems and suggests alternatives to reduce cost or increase efficiency to enable the company to reach its goals
• Stay up to date on industry trends and technologies; recommend new solutions
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment
• Ability to multitask and adapt to unexpected variables that change priorities and outcomes
• Collaborating and forming relationships with junior and senior client resources to help explain and develop technology solutions

Education:  

• Undergraduate degree – MS/MBA degree strongly preferred

What We Offer?

We offer benefits to support your physical, emotional, mental and financial health: 

• Time Off, When You Need It. A self-managed paid time off (PTO) program.
• Built For Families. Parental leave and flexible remote working options. 
• Care For You and Yours. Flexible health care options for you, your family and your pets. Plus, long-term disability, 401(k) benefits and more! 
• Help With the Little Things. Stipends to offset home office costs (such as internet, cell service and supplies). 
• Our Success Is Your Success. A profit-sharing program and annual company-sponsored trip to celebrate our accomplishments together. 
• Opportunities to Grow. Take courses. Attend conferences. Get certified. 

Want to know why you should work with us and what we offer employees? Visit our website to learn more.

About Centric Consulting: 

Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees across the country and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.   

Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences   to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.

We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. At Centric, we are looking for and embrace candidates of all backgrounds and identities who have a hunger for learning, collaborating, and generating unmatched experiences. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential.