Platform Architect - Azure & DevOps (12-20 yrs)

Hiring for : A global Analytics Consulting firm

Role : Platform Architect - Azure & DevOps

Experience : 12yrs+

Salary : 40-50LPA, based on experience and fitment

Locations : Any of Bengaluru / Mumbai / Pune / Gurgaon / Chennai / Hyderabad / Coimbatore

Type : Hybrid

Job Responsibilities :

- Lead and build DevOps capability for Azure services

- Planning, design and development of Azure Infra based architecture and solutions

- Working closely with client and delivering outcomes per the SoW and SLA

- Architect, design, develop, deploy and document new systems or maintain existing systems on Cloud Platforms based on specifications

- Collaborate with, provide continuous guidance to, and influence design decisions of various Agile development teams for various existing and new products and solutions w.r.t. Cloud enablement, migration and infrastructure needs, to adopt and promote Cloud best practices, and economies of scale

- Engage customers understand their use cases and operational needs, as well as engage with Cloud Platform vendors to understand their technology roadmaps and evolution and translate to comprehensive technology guidance for various product teams

- Design for Cloud security and compliance ensure solutions and operations reliability

- Drive and conduct audits on current cloud utilization and recommend cloud optimization and security changes

- Act as a mentor and technical consultant for the various teams

Desired Experience and Skills :

- Well versed with IaaS and PaaS services of Azure

- Strong understanding and implementation of DevSecOps Framework

- Understand the technical, financial and organizational requirements and constraints of enterprise customers and work closely with multiple teams to lead cloud enabled solutions

- Demonstrate ability to architect enterprise ready, secure and scalable solutions in cloud optimized for cost

- Effectively communicate the target state architecture topology on cloud to clients

- Solid understanding of design principles for resilient, scalable, high-performing distributed applications

- Ability to work on multiple projects, collaborate effectively with multiple teams and be flexible to adapt to changing requirements

- Have worked with external client, managed client expectation and delivery

- Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OCI, etc.) and microservices architecture

- Hands on experience with Unix and Linux based systems, shell scripting

- Experience with automation, orchestration, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and other tools

- Have integrated code quality and security tools in CI/CD

- Worked with build and release to Azure services like Azure WebApp, Logic App, Data Factory, Databricks and other services

- Deep understanding of Azure networking and Landing zone architecture

- Security and Compliance : Strong understanding of security and compliance requirements and how they apply to Azure with experience in implementing security controls and managing compliance audits

- Good understanding of Infrastructure as a Code script like Terraform, ARM, Pulumi or others

- Experience in programming languages like Python, Bash, Perl, VBScript, GoLang, will be an added advantage

- Monitoring and Logging tools knowledge/experience like Azure Monitor, App Insight and Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana and Fluentbit will be an added advantage