Floswerve is looking for an Azure PaaS Solutions Architect that will play key role in architecting and deploying serverless PaaS solutions.
Role and Responsibilities:
Provide Architectural Review and Guidance as part of Enterprise Architecture Governance processes focused on application modernization and transitioning to cloud native platforms and solutions.
Lead technical and design discussions with application teams to accelerate adoption of new technologies and practices as a standard repeatable process in the cloud
Architect and build highly scalable, cloud-native deployments on multiple cloud platforms and in alignment with Cloud Governance standards and procedures.
Advises IT Managers and Application teams about the implications of planned activities and implementations
Use analysis from staff and partners to develop long-term solutions
Take responsibility for testing and proving the viability of new technologies before implementation
Oversees technical and financial aspects of large, enterprise-level implementations by staff and partners
Identify opportunities for maximizing business value through the use of Cloud services
Provide key oversight and guidance in creating and maintaining standard operating procedures and business process improvement
Conduct training and cross training of less senior and cross functional teams as required, and lead in the development of training materials
Appropriately communicate with partners, cross functional teams, and across all levels of the organization as required.
Through functional escalation and partner interaction perform incident response in accordance with standard operating procedures and SLAs
Maintain subject matter expertise through continuous self-directed and documented development activities
Attend/Lead regular coordination calls as required.
Requirements:
BS level technical degree or equivalent professional or military experience
10+ years of design, hands-on implementation, experience with distributed applications or systems architecture
5+ years of experience in application/infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking
Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies and hands on development experience
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
Excellent communication skills with an ability to ‘right-level’ conversations
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud (refactoring/modernization)
Exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment experience, particularly with bicep templates, CI/CD Pipelines, and orchestration of Azure PaaS solutions
Preferred qualifications
Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Computer Science or Engineering background with Cloud related certifications
8 + years of solution development and deployment with recent experience in Azure that includes
Automating deployments with ARM or Bicep Templates
Developing custom IAM Roles, and RBAC templates in support of least privileged access
Developing, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines including use of Azure container registry
Azure App Services (Static, Web, Linux), Logic Apps, Function Apps
Paas services including Azure PostgreSQL , Azure Redis Cache, API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Data Factory, Container Apps, Log Analytics
Demonstrated success as solution architect, or consultant engaged in active deployments and cloud migrations
Designing and building applications using Container and serverless technologies
Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
Experience administering IaC (infrastructure as code) or container orchestration through common tools such as terraform, chef, puppet, etc.
Familiarity with common enterprise services (Directory Services, Information Assurance, Virtual Desktop, etc.), products (i.e., Oracle, SAP) and frameworks (ITIL, TOGAF, etc.)