Job Summary

The ‘Technical Design Expert – MS Azure’ should be able to contribute as a Cloud Solution Architect and work with a group of people including application manager, application architect, cloud technical architects, project managers, and implementation teams. We are looking for an experienced professional who is presently working in Azure cloud and has good understanding of latest Azure service offerings mainly as PaaS (and IaaS as well)

Key Responsibilities

Create the detailed infra design to operate the application software/services on MS-Azure public cloud platform. • Discuss with application manager/architects to understand requirements and document the detail requirements. • Contribute in detail solution design for scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant hosting platform into Azure cloud. • Work on selecting the appropriate Azure service based on usability, data classification and information security requirements. • Conduct solution design review meetings with application team and other stakeholders • Guide implementation and control the flow of data to and from Azure platform. • Identifying appropriate use of Azure operational best practices • Estimating Azure usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms • Co-ordinate with IT systems/application support, networks, and liaise for server builds and upgrades, domain configuration, and performance and tuning.

Skill Requirements

 Experience with using a broad range of Azure services, mainly from the list below:  Web Apps, Web jobs, Storage, Azure Key Vault, App Insights, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Functions, Azure Bot Service, Express Route  Cognitive Services - LUIS, QnA Maker, Search, Speech Services, Translator services  Azure VM, Azure VNet  Azure Active Directory, Azure AD B2C  Azure Analytics Services - Azure Analysis Services, SQL Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Databricks  Develop and maintain an Azure based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.  Infrastructure and Application monitoring across production and non-production platforms  Experience with DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration Management technologies  Knowledge on hybrid public cloud design concepts  Very good understanding of Cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services  Exposure to Amazon Web Services will be considered as a plus.  MS – Azure or Amazon AWS Certification or other Cloud related certifications highly desired  Good understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts for infrastructure  Familiarity with monitoring tools  Problem Solving: Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.  Experience with Microsoft Windows Servers administration

Other Requirements

Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent work experience • More than 12 years working experience in IT infrastructure domain with 6-8 years of experience in MS Azure based solution design (and support) • Excellent English communication skills (both written and verbal) • A very strong customer focus • Good collaboration and team working skills. • Ability to juggle many tasks and projects in a fast-moving environment. • Be a self-starter who is excited about learning new and emerging technologies.