Azure Cloud Architect / Senior Architect - Hitachi Systems India Pvt. Ltd

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Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect / Senior Architect 
Grade: Architect
Location: Gurugram, India
Company: Hitachi Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
Salary Range: As per Industry

Company Overview:

Hitachi Systems India is driving the digital change in the businesses through integrated IT solutions and services. Our multi-technology capabilities are backed by experience to serve large enterprises to mid-size and small businesses across various industries. Our endeavor is to help businesses become more agile and act in response to rapidly changing technology landscape due to digital transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct solution design review meetings with application team and other stakeholders.
• Transform requirements for new capabilities or changes from architecture, operations or customers to include them in the design of Public Cloud architecture.
• Ensure operational supportability of design, development, and engineering by working with operational support team in design and development such that the solution is operationally supportable technically and is properly documented operationally.
• Capture Lessons Learned through each iteration of development process and incorporate ongoing changes to processes and/or technology to improve effectiveness.
• Engineer and drive implementation of automation services into the Public Cloud.
• Work on selecting the appropriate Azure service based on compute, data, networking, high-availability and security requirements.
• Create the detailed infrastructure design to operate the application software/services on 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 on Azure.
• Guide implementation and control the flow of data to and from Azure.
• Designing and implementing organization wide security and governance strategies.
• Designing and Developing High Availability and Business Continuity Plan based upon RPO and RTO requirements.
• Co-ordinate with IT systems/application support, networks, and liaise for server builds and upgrades, domain configuration, and performance and tuning.
• Conduct Azure Cost Optimizations initiatives.
• Experienced in micro services architecture and Dockers containers.
• Experience of working on configuration management platforms.
• Strong scripting skills e g PowerShell, Python, Bash etc.

Experience: 6 -10 years of experience in a cloud infrastructure management / support role.

Skills:

• Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on Azure.
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on Azure.
• Capabilities to provide Azure operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Knowledge of application deployment and data migration on Azure for different regions.
• Experience with using a broad range of Azure technologies (e.g. VM’s, DB PaaS, Power BI, Blob Storage, Block Blob Storage, RBAC, Azure Monitor, Secrets, Functions, AKS, Express Route, VNET, Hub & Spoke, Private Links) to develop and maintain an Azure based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
• Experience with DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Continuous Integration Management technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Knowledge & experience of monitoring, logging and cost management tools that integrate with Azure.
• Automating Azure tasks using Azur DevOps tools, sdk, ARM templates, command line tools.
• Backup and Restore management PaaS DB, CosmosDB, and other NoSQL Databases.
• Infrastructure and Application monitoring across production and non-production platforms.
• Experience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Servers or Linux System administration

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in computers or equivalent.
• Azure Cloud Architect Certification highly desired.
• Excellent English communication skills (both written and verbal).
• A very strong customer focus.
• 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.