Solution Architect

Job Description

Job Overview:

As an Azure Solutions Architect, you will work with the customer team to understand as-is state of application and design solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the customer and providing best fit solutions to enable team to deliver on these solutions.
• Understanding integration components of application.
• Delivery of Cloud Assessment (“as is” state summary, derivation of optimal cloud-based target state), Design and Build of Cloud Services, with creation of Cloud Operation Runbooks, and training of resources needed to deliver day-to-day cloud-operations.
• Implementing Hybrid scenarios with workloads shared across on premise and Microsoft Azure, application Integration between cloud and on-premises environments and contributing to all phases of development cycle.

Key skills/ knowledge: 
Essential

• Strong application development background to architect application migrations and development on azure platform.
• Strong implementation experience in workload migration and/or large-scale cloud native application.
• Strong understanding of the cloud architecture patterns and solution design principles.
• Ability to design customised cloud-based solutions for custom-applications using industry standards standard COTS applications.
• Strong understanding of different attributes for cloud application availability, scalability, and ability to propose optimized design for cloud.

Desirable

• Knowledge on Azure Core IaaS and PaaS Services. Cost optimization and Financial Model design.
• Understanding of application architectures, mapping of application-components to VMs and/or Cloud services, IaaS, PaaS and DevOPS frameworks.
• Detailed knowledge of traditional and cloud-based Infrastructure components (Server, Storage, Network, Network Security, IaaS-Management Tools).
• Azure Architect Certification.
• AKS Knowledge.