Linux Architect – Azure
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Negotiable
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London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Linux Architect – Azure role is focused on leading cloud migration projects, specifically utilizing Azure infrastructure and services. The position requires extensive experience in Azure IaaS/PaaS, Linux environments, and managing technical teams. The architect will design and implement cloud solutions while ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder needs. Strong troubleshooting skills and a deep understanding of cloud architecture are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct on-prem/public cloud infrastructure assessments using Azure Migrate.
- Drive cloud solutioning activities for large complex migrations.
- Design and build Azure Landing Zone activities.
- Provide Azure target architecture, BoM pricing, and licensing details.
- Migrate on-premise workloads to Azure and troubleshoot Azure & Linux environments.
- Define and realize end-to-end solution architecture addressing business processes and specifications.
- Manage storage devices, logical volumes, and file systems in Linux environments.
- Configure and troubleshoot networking, DNS, and email delivery on Linux systems.
- Optimize web server traffic and tune system performance.
- Provide guidance to other engineers and conduct root-cause analysis on complex issues.
Key Skills:
- Expertise in Azure Cloud Architecture and Cloud Solution Architecture.
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems and troubleshooting.
- Experience with scripting/coding in bash, python, Ruby, and/or Perl.
- Familiarity with configuration management platforms (Chef, Ansible, etc.).
- Experience with development tools such as GIT and Jenkins.
- Certifications such as RHCSA, RHCE, and RHCA are desirable.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work well in a team and manage customer interactions.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Linux Architect – Azure
Location: London, UK - Occasional visit
6 Months contract with possible extension
12+ years of IT experience and minimum of 5+ years of experience on Azure Infra, Azure Migrate, Azure Networking mainly Azure IaaS/PaaS, DC, Cloud, Security, SIAM and Data/Storage areas Azure Key Vault, Azure IAM. Should have worked with the team size of above 5 Infra, technically guided, managed and governed the team.
Primary skills:
- Expertise in On-prem/Public cloud Infra assessments using Azure Migrate
- Driving the cloud Solutioning Azure activities for large complex migration
- Ensure that the proposed solution covers Azure strategy, stakeholder management as well as the actual solution covering Business, Application and Infrastructure as well as commercial aspects (in terms of value for money and not commercial costing etc.)
- Working experience with various industry domains like banking, healthcare, Insurance
- Understanding customer Infra landscape.
- Design and build Azure Landing Zone activities.
- Clear understanding of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment).
- Provide the Azure target architecture and its BoM pricing and licensing related details.
- Azure Target Solutions architect Diagram (all Azure services ) including HLD & LLD .
- Migrating on premise workloads to Azure using Azure Migrate.
- Troubleshooting experience with Azure & Linux environments (Processor, networking, clusters, IO, memory etc. related issues)
- Define & realize end-to-end solution architecture addressing business processes, specifications in a domain regulation in a domain, quality attributes of a system and economy of solution.
- Strong knowledge on Linux
- Manage storage devices, logical volumes, and file systems, Install & update software packages.
- Strong knowledge in Upgrading / migrating Linux Servers to later versions.
- Strong Knowledge with Backup and restoration of Servers.
- Hands on experience in restoring OS and Data files from backup.
- Hands on experience in Control services and daemons: manage services and the boot-up process.
- Hands on experience in Manage networking: Configure and troubleshoot networking on Linux systems.
- Hands on experience in configure link aggregation and bridging: Configure and troubleshoot advanced network interface functionality including bonding, teaming, and local software bridges.
- Hands on experience in managing DNS for servers: DNS records for systems and configure secure DNS caching.
- Hands on experience in configure and troubleshoot email delivery: Send Mail, Postfix
- Hands on experience in Provide file-based storage: Provide NFS exports and SMB file shares to specific systems and users.
- Hands on experience in Apache HTTPD web service: Configure Apache HTTPD to provide Transport Layer Security (TLS)-enabled websites and virtual hosts.
- Hands on experience in Execute shell scripting and automation techniques.
- Optimize web server traffic: Improve performance of your web servers by using Varnish to cache static content being served and HAProxy to terminate TLS connections and balance load between servers.
- Tune system performance: Improve system performance by setting tuning parameters and adjusting scheduling priority of processes.
- Ability to provide guidance to other engineers.
- Ability to complete root-cause analysis on complex issues.
- High-end troubleshooting complex issues.
- Strong understanding of security within a UNIX environment.
Secondary Skills:
- Familiarity with configuration management platforms (Chef, Ansible, etc.)
- Experience with scripting/coding in bash, python, Ruby, and/or Perl
- Experience with development tools such as GIT, Jenkins, etc.
- Certifications (Good to have) Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Soft Skills:
- Good customer connects.
- Prepare solution presentations.
- Positive attitude and excellent communication skills to manage customer calls.
- Ability to work well in a team.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Good communication.
Skills Mandatory Skills : Azure Cloud Architecture, Cloud Solution Architecture