Description

• The Client’s Cloud Security Architecture team is looking for an experienced and high-performing Azure cloud security architect.
• The Cloud Architect plays a critical role in defining security controls and developing security solutions to protect Client’s.
• We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect that will help grow our cloud capabilities by strategizing, defining, architecting, and leading modern cloud solutions.
• This individual will be a tenacious thought leader able to scope projects, ensure delivery, and establish and maintain strong relationships with all the stakeholders in Client’s.
• We are looking for an experienced hands-on Azure Cloud Architect to make intuitive high-level decisions to improve the business experience.
• You will see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for automation design and implementation.
• You will be responsible for the technical direction of projects, working with the Client’s security team to enable new Azure services and meet Client’s security guidelines.
• Design and develop security controls to protect Client’s assets, data and applications in Azure cloud
• Analyze cloud threats & risks and develop security solutions using NIST framework
• Define technical direction and roadmap for Cloud migrations and managing the implementation and technical solutions.
• Develop and coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas including application development, identity and access management, network and data management, and security.
• Architect cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud solutions to meet the client’s needs.
• Own the content and lead workshops on technical topics with the client.
• Develop architectural artifacts to lead the delivery of a successful implementation.
• Engage with technical stakeholders of the client and third parties to understand how their systems work.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to technical team members.
• Collaborating with Security, Governance, Cloud engineering groups, and development teams to implement solutions across various lines of business.
• Provide technical leadership to evolve, mature, and migrate On-Prem apps to Cloud.
• Will be responsible for accurate communication of the status of ongoing work to stakeholders, including project management and senior managers.
• Oversee the progress of the various product teams to ensure alignment with the organizational cloud strategy.
• Owning the ongoing design, implementation, and management of the Azure environment, testing, and implementation of new services as they become available in the Azure environment.
• Create documentation to aid in knowledge management efforts within cloud services and provide training.
• Documenting and creating playbooks for administrative/support actions to be used by Production Support.
• Represent Client’s's brand at technical conferences by providing presentations, lectures and participating in group discussions.
• Identify and present best practices and recommendations for cost optimization/cloud efficiency across the Azure cloud platform to the business.

What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Certified with Azure fundamentals and/or Azure Administrator
• Experience in System Administration, Software development, Design Architecture, and/or implementation experience.
• Experience with standard and assured workload Azure project orchestration/creation.
• Experience of core Azure Services (e.g., IAM & Admin, Encryption Keys, Logging, Monitoring,).
• Experience indifferent programming languages e.g. scripting using Python or bash, to automate the build, test, package & deployment of function(s) and configuration.
• Experience in Terraform, Cloudformation, and ARM templates.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer science, Math or related field.
• Exposure to networking elements like VPC, Firewall Rules, Subnets, and Availability Zone.
• Exposure to application Migration and hybrid cloud environments.
• Solid experience with Data Migration and Backup Solutions.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks and services in Public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, OCI, and Azure.
• Hands-on experience of IAC tools like CloudFormation/Terraform, with proficiency in automation using Python, Boto3, Unix Shell, and other scripting languages Python and Jenkins to automate the build, test, package & deployment of function(s) & configuration. Strong hands-on knowledge of Aor MasterWS Lambda Functions.
• Experience with modern source control repositories (e.g., Git). CI/CD expertise with DevOps toolsets (Jenkins / Ansible).
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines, Jenkins job creations, and configuration.
• Proficient in writing Ansible Playbooks for configuring the cloud environment and deploying middleware and application packages.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Linux and Windows System Administration experience.
• Migrating Complex projects from on-prem to Cloud which includes Web/Apps tiers as well as database transformation.
• Implemented Enterprise Security remediation process in Cloud.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting as well as partnering with vendors and other organizations to drive root cause analysis and solve complex technical problems.
• Infrastructure expertise in computer and database design for high availability and disaster recovery, monitoring, cloud efficiency, rightsizing, and patching.
• Understanding of networking (e.g., DNS services, TCP, load-balancers, routing, firewalls) to be leveraged for designs and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, load balancers, hypervisor, storage, monitoring, security) and experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• Experience with security best practices and use of firewalls, encryption, incident response, encryption at REST & In-Transit Encryption, SSL Cert configuration at the Load balancer or server level.
• Experience with SQL tables, queries, procedures, and functions.
• Experience in creating automated processes using well-known languages and frameworks (e.g., PowerShell, python, YML, Json, Ansible, Jenkins pipeline)

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree