Azure Cloud Architect

Azure Architect

Job Location: Remote

Join our team

Centric Consulting is an international management consulting firm with expertise in digital, business and technology. We are looking for an Azure Architect to join our growing team.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas.
• Establish reference architectures and procedures for developing cloud offerings.
• Advise clients on leading cloud practices and architectural approaches.
• Promote the design, estimation and implementation of cloud migrations and deployments.
• Maintain project and enterprise level model consistency and integration.
• Communicate complex cloud architecture concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Help align business and enterprise projects 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.
• Build client relationships by participating in business development activities.
• Manage the Partner Network relationship and use 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 together 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+ years working with Azure technologies.
• Topology planning and cataloging with Azure Resource Groups, subscriptions.
• Experience deploying network components including subnet and VNet planning, VPN Gateway, SD-WAN, ExpressRoute and NSGs.
• Experience deploying and configuring Azure identity services including Azure AD, IAM, RBAC, SSO and MFA.
• 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 available systems using availability sets, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Scale Sets, Azure Backup, and load balancing.
• Develop 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.
• Report on Cloud usage and costs logical taxonomy tagging.
• Provide trending and forecasting to aid management in making budgetary decisions.
• Provide operational maintenance and monitoring of Cloud-based solutions.
• Work with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to automate 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 suggest alternatives to reduce cost or increase efficiency to allow the company to reach its goals.
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and technologies; recommend new solutions.
• Collaborate and form relationships with junior and senior client resources to help explain and develop technology solutions.

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.

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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 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 , 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 to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential.

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