Job Title : CLOUD ARCHITECT
Length : 9 Months
Location : Pittsburgh, PA (onsite)
The company has an immediate opening for a Cloud Architect. Ideal candidates must have 5+ years of experience planning, designing and managing Azure infrastructures; 5+ years of experience implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions for Azure.
Responsibilities
- Oversee architecture, management, configuration, and layout of Azure infrastructures
- Provide expert-level architecture design for Azure environments
- Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert to the organization for cloud end-to-end architecture, including networking, provisioning, and management
- Offer in-depth analysis of Azure environment and recommend best practices in Compute, Storage, Backup, Recovery, and Archiving
- Ensure delivered solutions meet/perform to technical and functional/non-functional requirements
- Use prior knowledge and creativity to troubleshoot and solve technical issues as they arise
- Keep up to date with developments on current cloud computing solutions and processes
- Provide guidance to cross-functional teams on using and accessing data on the cloud, especially during major transfer, updates, or changes
- Participate in Root Cause Analysis reviews to improve Azure system performance
Qualifications
- Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, applications, and trends
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, software application, and design
- Microsoft Azure - 5+ years
- Cloud migration and data management skills with an emphasis on data privacy and security - 5+ years
- Planning, designing, and managing Azure infrastructures - 5+ years
- Implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions for Azure -5+ years
- Analyzing Azure environments and recommending best practices in Compute, Storage, Backup Recovery, and Archiving specific to Azure - 5+ years