Azure Architect - Infrastructure

All the benefits and perks you need:

100% Paid Healthcare Insurance, including First Primary Care Wellness Program

Start accruing Paid Days Off from Day One

Career Development

Fitness Reimbursement

Matching 401K Retirement Plan

Mentoring Program

Team Events

And more….

Smartbridge

We simplify business transformation, applying thought leadership and innovation to create digitally connected enterprises. From Strategy to Implementation, we bring our clients’ digital agenda to life. One of the keys to our success as a company is finding and hiring exemplary employees. We believe that each member of our team contributes directly to Smartbridge’s growth and success, and we take pride and celebrate with our employees as they continue to grow and succeed with their career paths as well.

As an Azure Architect at Smartbridge, you will have the opportunity to:

Interact with customers and Smartbridge sponsors and delivery teams (including partners) focused on solving mission-critical business and technology problems and provide solutions which center on the consumption of the Azure Platform

Execute technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Azure

Develop technical and security specifications for the targeted applications/workloads in Azure

Develop a migration approach to move workloads from on-premises to Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions

Lead and mentor medium to large sized teams in the migration workloads or implementations of application and services to the cloud in large enterprise environments

Document and share technical best practices and insights with the Customer and Smartbridge community, contributing to Smartbridge repository of intellectual property

Strategize, plan, and execute business development.

Engage with Smartbridge technology leaders and solutions experts to deliver cutting edge solutions to clients.

Expand Smartbridge portfolio of solutions and professional services in the local geography.

Maintain and grow client relationships.

Induce solutions and ideas to help clients improve their business performance.

Work in an entrepreneurial environment with a high level of senior management access.

The ideal candidate will have:

6 - 12 years of deep experience across systems integration, platforms, solution architecture.

Demonstrable Cloud expertise and Cloud solution architecture

Experience in cloud computing technologies and excellent knowledge of current computing trends

Ability to analyze systems and identify problems migrating to Azure cloud

Experience with Architecture creation and delivery which includes understanding requirements, formulating design, and communicating the architecture

Experience with DevOps and Agile engineering practices

Experience leading Technology or Application Architecture projects and deliverables

Strong understanding of features and capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud Platform (Security, Firewalls, RedisCache, Key Vault, Service Bus, ASR, Networking, OMS, Blob Storage, Resource Groups, NSG, Application Insights, SQL Server, Sql DB, Load-Balancers)

Design and implement advanced functions of Office 365 and/or Azure AD Premium including security, governance and compliance

Design and implementation of ADFS identity solutions for more than Microsoft Office 365

Designing Solutions in Microsoft Azure as per project specifications and needs

Drive architecture and technical discussion to lead cloud security, privacy, and compliance decisions scale, performance, agility, HA/DR considerations

Configure and manage customer Azure cloud environment

Development experience in CI/CD DevSecOps environment

Integration, APIs, API Management software

Designing and Deploying Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions

Experience in Active Directory, Azure Identity Management and Azure AD Premium

Knowledge of Azure Security components such as Azure Security Center, Security Operations, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Azure Solution Architect

Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas:

Software design or development of highly distributed applications. Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: .NET, C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive

Azure Dev/Ops tools and best practices for environment management

Virtualization, Networking, Storage, Security configuration and management

Provide second level support for issues related to compute, network and storage on Azure

Motivated personality and ability to work in self-organized teams

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Proven track record of building trusted technical and business relationships with senior executives and driving growth in highly strategic or key accounts

Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through

Ability to connect technology with measurable business value

Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer-facing situations

Exceptional verbal and written communication

Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences

Minimum education qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field

Certifications (recommended)

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert Microsoft Certification or another associate level certification would be an added advantage