Azure Principal Architect

Scope

• Principal Architect-level Azure expertise with extensive hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating Azure environments.
• Deep technical knowledge across Azure's core services, particularly networking, compute, and Blob Storage.
• Strong experience with Azure migrations, including planning, execution, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Ability to quickly familiarize themselves with client's environment and work independently alongside their infrastructure team.
• Broad understanding of Azure services, with the ability to provide technical guidance across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Comfortable collaborating with other infrastructure teams, including networking.

Anticipated Projects & Responsibilities

• Azure Migrations: Work alongside Dan's team to plan and execute migrations into Azure.
• Azure Networking, Compute & Storage: Support design, configuration, integration, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Azure Arc: Assist with evaluating and testing Azure Arc, which the firm is currently exploring.
• Azure SQL: Support testing and evaluation of Azure SQL services.
• Azure Resiliency & Disaster Recovery: Evaluate additional Azure-native services that could improve the firm's overall resiliency and recovery posture.
• Azure Site Recovery: Build on the firm's previous assessment and help determine potential next steps.
• Cross-Team Support: Potentially assist the networking team with Azure-related projects and integrations.

Skills Must Have

• Principal-level Azure architecture and hands-on engineering.
• Azure networking, compute, and Blob Storage.
• On-prem to Azure migrations and hybrid integration.
• Implementation, troubleshooting, and testing.
• Independent, customer-facing execution

Skills Nice to Have

• Azure Arc and Azure SQL.
• Azure Site Recovery, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Automation (Ansible).
• Azure security, governance, and cost optimization.