Azure Architect

Vacancy Type: Contract

Reference: RL6106

Location: Mostly remote with occasional visits to site

Duration: 2 months (good chance of extension)

Rate: Circa £500/day

IR35: Outside

 

The Role

With your experience in customer facing roles and success implementing cloud based solutions, migrating workloads to the cloud, and experience with connecting and managing hybrid cloud environments, you will provide Azure consulting and architecting expertise, including:

• Azure architecture, design and SME support

• Focus on Azure platform and networking up to OS / PaaS resource level

• Working with other architects and networks to ensure the product team can successfully deploy in to the environment

• The design and development of integrated solutions using the latest Microsoft products and technologies

• Understanding the relevant application development, infrastructure and operations implications of the developed solution

 

Requirements

• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers and emerging computing trends

• Deep technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security and storage

• Understanding of how to build resilient multi-site architectures

• Experience with Windows, Linux and OSS technologies

• Experience with configuration management and automation technologies such as PowerShell DSC, Chef, ARM Templates, and Puppet

• Experience with deploying and managing the infrastructure for databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, Maria, Cassandra

• Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: PowerShell, Bash, .NET, C++, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails

• Microsoft Certified: Ideally Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate