Responsibilities

Understand customers' overall cloud portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and scalable cloud solutions leveraging expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, VMware, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, HPC, containers and Infra as a code technologies). 

Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a migration and modernization roadmap with customers using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). 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

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

Ensure all solutions leverage the design and operations guidance according to the Well-Architected framework across all pillars, including reliability, cost optimization, performance efficiency, security and operational excellence

Run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution –governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment.  Use CAF Landing Zones to rapidly prototype and deliver proof-of-concepts that accelerate production deployment

Author, maintain and contribute to solution engineering projects like Azure Landing Zones Bicep & Terraform modules, following CSU’s solution engineering processes

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

Troubleshoot technical issues to prove the value of implementation of Azure technologies

Assess the customer knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure delivery through partners · Collaborate with others 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. 

Build and grow developer communities by driving activities including Open Hacks, Workshops

Curating and producing high quality guidance for Microsoft's internal and external communities and customers

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies

Modelling cloud infrastructure based on application scale and capacity needs, providing data-driven recommendations to optimize application architecture and performance

The ideal candidate will have a breadth of knowledge across cloud computing domains and experience with architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency and geo-availability

Large infrastructure migration, e.g. on-premise DC migration to Azure, and new builds for new applications/services into Azure

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code to build, test and deploy infrastructure for application environments

Additional or Preferred Skills

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years’ experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud/infrastructure technologies 

Experience on Azure, as well as expert level hands-on experience in topics from one or more of the technical domains below:
Azure Landing Zones, Well-Architected Framework, and Core Infrastructure

Defining CI/CD pipelines to automate test and release across different application environments using concepts such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments and related technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Chef, Puppet)

Foundational knowledge of containers for packaging application deployment units and interacting with container-orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Cloud Foundry

Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly, and understand relevant cloud trends required

Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Azure, Networking, Infrastructure, Security, Azure Virtual Desktop, DevOps