Cloud Infrastructure Architect

What You’ll Do

• Leverage industry standard tools (Azure Migrate, RVTools, AzGovViz, amongst others) to perform analysis on existing on-premises, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and other systems to make and implement recommendations for operational efficiency, security & governance, and high availability across enterprise-wide, global application ecosystems.
• Independently host workshops and solution design sessions to upskill, educate, and define requirements for architecture and project engineering efforts.
• Lead the backlogging, effort estimation, and solutioning of project work to deliver engagements and engineering efforts in migration and modernization projects.
• Leverage the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to ensure that solution architectures and migration processes are designed in alignment with Microsoft best practices & industry standards.
• Leverage infrastructure-as-code (Bicep, Terraform) and automated processes (Azure DevOps YAML pipelines) to implement solutions reliably and repeatedly.
• Demonstrate deep technical experience in end-to-end lift-and-shift migration processes utilizing tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Data Migration Service, and Azure VMware Solution.
• Demonstrate deep technical experience in application platform services to help replatform workloads on-premises into cloud-native designs using application, data, and containerized services.
• Demonstrate deep technical experience in cloud networking, routing, and hybrid connectivity to design, implement, and troubleshoot at an enterprise level.
• Define and clearly communicate requirements to external stakeholders and internal project teams to manage expectations and timelines associated with project deliverables.
• Author robust diagrams and written technical documentation for project efforts.

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience with Azure cloud platform supporting infrastructure deployments, network deployments, and infrastructure-as-code (Bicep, Terraform) or systems scripting (PowerShell, Bash).Candidates without Azure experience should not apply.
• At least 5 years of experience in Systems Administration (or comparable experience) such as Windows Server administration, Linux systems administration, database administration (SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• At least 3 years of experience in Network Administration (or comparable experience) such as Firewall management, Routing, Switching, and Cloud-native connectivity (ExpressRoute, Site to Site VPN tunnels, Load Balancing, etc.)
• Understanding of high availability and disaster recovery principles, patterns, and applications.
• Experience supporting Production applications or workloads, being able to perform test and troubleshoot related issues.
• Experience in a consultative role or an engineering role working with more than one client environment at any given time.
• Experience modernizing, refactoring and/or deploying enterprise applications.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Software Engineering, or Information Technology preferred, butnotrequired.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Expectations

• New hires for this role will complete the following certifications within the twelve (12) weeks of hire (paid for in full by Eastwall):
• Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
• Exam AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Exam AZ-700: Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Travel for this role is up to 10% within the continental United States

Benefits

• Competitive salary with bonuses paid quarterly.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance through United Healthcare.
• 401k, FSA and LSA offerings
• Three (3) weeks of paid time off annually, not including eight (8) paid company holidays.
• Annual conference & training budget.
• Fully remote work environment, with local co-working options.