Azure Architect

Azure Architect

Salary: £70,000 + benefits

Location: Birmingham – Hybrid 

Khuda Technology has partnered with an international Managed Service Provider (MSP) to find a highly skilled Azure Architect. This role requires extensive experience in high-level and low-level design (HLD & LLD), as well as a strong background in delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Candidates with current SC clearance or those eligible for SC clearance are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Authoring Low Level Design (LLD) documentation to a high technical standard.
• Aligning deliveries to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
• Designing Azure Landing Zones (Azure foundation platform) with focus on Infrastructure-as-Code methods.
• Following Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) best-practices using Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.
• Working across both waterfall and agile cloud migrations and cloud transformational projects.
• Providing updates on Azure enhancements to Azure Solution Architects and the wider team, ensuring industry and Microsoft best practices are adhered to.
• Ensuring Microsoft and industry security best practices are adhered to.
• Contributing to our centralised code base.

Key Skills

• At least 2 years’ experience delivering Azure IaaS/PaaS solutions with an infrastructure focus. Including but not limited to - Compute, Storage, Networks, Monitoring, Management, Backup.
• At least 1 year in a client facing role.
• Demonstrable risk management knowledge.
• Experience working within an Agile team environment.
• Excellent skills in at least one of following: ARM and/or Terraform.
• Understanding of Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Azure Polices & Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Experience implementing Hub-Spoke network topologies, Virtual Network (vNET) peering, Network Security Groups (NSG), Public IP addresses (PIP), Site-to-Site VPN and Azure load-balancers.
• Experience deploying and configuring Log Analytics workspaces.
• Experience implementing Azure Backup and configuring backup polices.
• Experience implementing Azure Key Vault and collecting secrets during the deployment using ARM templates.
• Experience deploying Virtual Machines using specific VM SKU types
• Experience deploying Virtual Machines using specific Azure Disk requirements including, managed disk types, data redundancy and access tiers.
• Experience deploying Highly Available Virtual Machines using Availability Sets.
• Understanding of Highly Available Virtual Machine deployments using Availability Zones. 

If you have the required skills and experience, and you're ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role, please don't hesitate to apply.