Azure Platform Architect

Summary

Avanade is the perfect stage to bring your thoughtful, energetic, and curious approach to technology consulting.
Our talented Infrastructure Community consists of some of the most dedicated and passionate in the field and we plan to grow! With Avanade, you will be focusing on the Azure cloud and working with the newest (Microsoft) technologies on exciting client projects. This opportunity is made more purposeful with our focus on positive outcomes for how humans work, interact, and live. If you like pushing boundaries by outsmarting challenges, read on!

Key Responsibilities

• Apply your expertise in technical and consulting knowledge to advise clients on proper governance, ensure stability, and support changing business needs

• Participate in the design, planning and implementation of Azure solutions at our customers, work in projects that utilize the full breadth of the Azure platform with both IaaS and PaaS, that are deployed with Infrastructure as Code in an automated way.

• Deploy and architect Azure solutions across the Azure platform (subscriptions/management, networking, security, compute, storage, operations) for major enterprise projects

• Apply kknowledge and expertise of latest Azure Infrastructure technologies (Open Source on Azure, Kubernetes, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Frontdoor, Azure Migrate), and Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipeline)

• Solve complex technical challenges with infrastructure solutions (cloud and on-premises, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, cloud technologies), automation, scripting and DevOps

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• Great communication and interpersonal skills - you’re working directly with clients, alongside a team of consultants, or within a client team. You’re good at communicating hard concepts so everyone understands

• Automation (IaC) through ARM/Terraform/Bicep/YAML and Scripting in PowerShell/Bash/Azure CLI

• Experience engaging with and advising clients, writing high-level and detailed designs, and defining architectural topologies

• Knowledge on Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Enterprise Scale

• Comfortable working in large and small teams to design and implement solutions

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