**Azure Cloud Architect** (Contract)

Duration: 6 Months (Possibility for Extension)

Location: Hybrid/Wokingham

Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Profile

As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will help develop architecture along with usage, provisioning, and configuration of Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions. Your professional CSA skills and recommendations will guide Dev Teams and other architects to deliver value with orchestration of cloud services for cloud-native workloads, or transformation and migration to the Azure cloud for modernisation and digital transformation.

The role requires overarching knowledge across Azure offerings in space of storage/data, compute and networking, with depth expertise in at least one of those areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with stakeholders at all levels to gather requirements, architect solutions, and assist dev team to execute on deliverables
  * Work closely with Solution Teams, end-users, operations, and security to ensure requirements are captured in the architecture design
  * Map Solution requirements to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services by converting technical requirements of a project into architecture and design on path to finished products
  * Participate in providing technology assessments in support of automation and technology migration initiatives
  * Provide innovative methodologies to identify and solve development, migration, performance, scalability, reliability, and availability issues
  * Provide architectural support and leadership to the Solution team for developing their Solutions on the Azure Platform.
  * Help build cloud governance, monitoring and operating models for in-production workloads
  * Whiteboard architecture reviews, write technical collateral and help build reusable artifacts for the organisation

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in one or more of the following: Azure cloud solution designing & architecture, networking, container services, coding/development using MS or opensource stack, Azure Compute/Storage/Data Services, DevOps tools (Azure DevOps or Jira)
  * Experience with Enterprise data handling, Data integration and Big Data analytics, using Azure stack
  * One or more of relevant cloud certifications from Microsoft (e.g., AZ104 + AZ 303/304/ or 305, DP 203/204).
  * TOGAF/Open-Agile Architecture and/or Azure platform architecture

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

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