Cloud Architect (Azure) - IT

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Job Description

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to hire Technical Architect (Azure) - IT who is based out of in Chennai location.

Reporting to Senior Director & the role involves,

What a typical day looks like:

• Strong Azure / AWS experience with Cloud Architect certification
• Design, develop and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions on the cloud.
• Manage and maintain the cloud infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, availability, and security.
• Analyze cloud hosting costs and drive initiatives that would lead to cost optimizations
• Deliver various artifacts as part of the enterprise cloud architecture, including systems/network/infrastructure diagrams, reference implementations, best practices, and roadmaps
• Expert and knowledgeable on IaaS, PaaS, SaaS models with modern terminology and relevance
• Strong focus on public cloud-based platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure
• Knowledge of private/hybrid cloud-based platforms such as VMware/OpenStack/OpenShift/Open Compute Project is a plus
• Strong knowledge of multi-cloud architecture with cloud broker is a plus
• Strong knowledge on cloud governance and best practices
• Exposure to VMWare or Virtual Server/ Virtual PC would be added value.
• Expertise on all different Wintel Technologies of Windows, Linux,  VMWare and OS related applications.
• Good Understanding of IP based platforms and addressing, DHCP, DNS, and client/server computing.
• Knowledge of the core components such as WINS, DNS, IIS, and Clustering, Load Balancing.VMWare:
• Expert of IAAS\PAAS operation support for Public Cloud environment (AWS\Azure\GPS)
• Continually analyzes the application using debugging tools, error logs, scripts and backup reports in order to optimize performance.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Any graduate in computer science or equivalent technical degree.
• Min 12+ years of industry experience with 5+ years strong Azure/AWS experience with Cloud Architect certification & Managing people and cloud projects.
• Provide leadership and guidance to the Cloud Services.
• Development and execute on a long-term cloud technology roadmap based on established business needs and the enterprise technology strategy.
• Implement cloud based technologies that improve collaboration, efficiency, performance and reliability
• Provide expertise and consulting across Organizations in the development of cloud initiatives
• Develop and grow internal technical knowledge and expertise on cloud stack
• Strong experience in creating large scale enterprise cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off

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