Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect

About us :

Intuitive.Cloud is one of the fastest-growing (INC 5000, CRN) Cloud & SDx solution and services companies supporting enterprise customers on a global scale.

Intuitive is an "Engineering Company" delivering measurable value and key business outcomes.

Intuitive Superpowers :

• DataOps & AI / ML
• Cloud Native, AppSecOps, DevSecOps
• Cloud Migration & Transformation
• Cloud FinOps
• Cybersecurity (App / Data / Infra) & GRC
• SDx & Digital Workspace

We are proud to partner with some of the world's leading enterprises and serve 200+ customers across different industry verticals.

We have achieved many milestones along the way, including being recognized as a top-10 fast-growth 150 IT company in the Americas by CRN in 2022 and being named one of America's fastest-growing private companies by INC 5000 in 2022.

That’s not all! Even CIO Review awarded us as the Most Promising Cloud Migration Company and Artificial Intelligence Solutions Provider in 2022.

About the job :

Title Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Start date : Immediate

Position Type : Full Time

Location : Remote across Canada (Must be open to travel to customer location when needed)

Work Time : Eastern or Central Time Zone.

Job Description

• Experience in analyzing customer's business and technical requirements, assessing existing environment for Cloud enablement, advising on Cloud models, technologies and risk management strategies.
• Experience on architecture, design of cloud solutions to address scalability, performance, security, availability, cost transformation requirements
• Experience in Data Center transformation to Azure Cloud
• Deep, hands-on technical expertise on Azure core services.
• Build the architecture to allow for blue / green deployment on AKS.
• Experience in migration-deployment of applications to Cloud, re-engineering of application for cloud, setting up OS and app environments in virtualized cloud
• Experience in writing cloud automation scripts / code such as Ansible, Terraform,etc.
• Exposure to Service-Oriented / Application / Infrastructure / Enterprise Architecture, and development experience on Web Services and Java / MS Technologies and / or Python using Boto library.
• Good knowledge of application build / release processes CI / CD pipelines using Jenkins and Chef / Puppet.
• Good knowledge of Agile processes (planning / stand-ups / retros etc.), and interact with cross-functional teams i.e. Development, Infrastructure, Security, Performance Engineering, and QA.
• Agile software development and DevOps.
• Experience on customer cloud pre-sales responses and projects.
• Strong passion for technology exploration and development.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills.

Experience :

• Helping customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage Cloud services.
• Lead the pre-sales efforts working collaboratively with ITP Sales teams and customer’s, technical and business stakeholders, building a cost-effective, scalable, secure robust cloud (public, private and hybrid) solutions.
• Create Sales and Marketing collateral content with sales team.
• Conduct Sales enablement sessions to coach sales team on new offerings.
• Attend customer meetings to understand their business and technical challenges.
• Act as a liaison between the sales and engineering teams to provide optimal solution to the customers.
• Apply creative thinking / approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, keeping in mind security, performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and cost.
• Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized.
• Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
• Providing deep application architecture knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns and application modernization.
• Advising and implementing Azure best practices, Well architected review.
• Working as both an infrastructure and application migration specialist.
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment.
• Instill best practices for service execution. Drive for engineering excellence including automation, quality, efficiency, and productivity.
• Develop methods for providing large scale services effectively.

Nice to Have :

• Work with Technology leadership to grow the Cloud & DevOps practice. Create cloud practice collateral
• Determine needs around using Secure protocols and creating / maintaining / updating certificates in either the AWS native tools, or integrating with on-prem certificate stores.
• Help with optimizing the architecture to reduce the end-to-end latency, by using the Global Accelerator, latency / proximity Route 53 based policies etc
• Help with design to keep multi-region system of engagement data in sync between regions and on-prem, Kinesis / Kafka replication, GoldenGate Oracle replication etc
• Drive discovery workshops, able to create proposals and SoW post discovery workshops
• Work directly with sales teams to improve and help them drive the sales for Cloud & DevOps practice
• Write whitepapers and technology blogs to be published on social media and Intuitive website.
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