Job Description:

·        Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding

·        Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate

·        Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment

·        Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates

·        Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers

·        Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners

·        Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform

·        Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community

·        Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities Responsible for planning and coordinating all the activities required to perform, monitor, and report on the process

·        Good knowledge on Cloud Security and vulnerability

·        Co-ordinate with multiple teams and stakeholders

·        Setting individual team member task priorities that align with priorities and timelines

·        Make important technical, policy, planning, and strategy decisions aligned with guiding principles

·        VM Management of all VMs which are hosted within AVS

·        Snapshots via Service Request (e.g. before Major changes of Apps)

·        NSX T Management

·        (De-) Provisioning of Subnets

·        Configuration of firewall rules

·        LB configuration for applications

·        Test and release new versions BEFORE rollout starts

·        Rollout VMWare Tools on Windows OS

·        Adjust VM Resources (Storage, RAM, CPU)

·        (DE-)Provisioning of virtual Hardware with configuration (e.g. Network, storage etc.)

·        Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management required

·        Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud) required

·        Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code)

·        Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration