Solution Architect

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Freelance Cloud Solutions Architect - Remote We are looking for a number of Cloud Solution Architects to match up a series of projects at the same customer. These role are freelance requirements with an initial contract period of 12 months.

Roles & Responsibilities

* Understand customer's IT estate, LOB applications, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and cloud native solutions

* Collaborate with network, security, AD, backup, tools and application architects and SME's to develop enterprise grade solutions.

* Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers.

* Define long term cloud strategy and mentor operations teams to implement the solutions

* Keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights and maintain technical skills and knowledge

* Advocate new features and solutions to bring operational efficiency and cost reduction.

* Act as a subject-matter expert on Microsoft Azure and assist Sales/Pre-Sales in RFP activities.

Requirements

* Subject matter level expertise on Azure Governance & Cost Management, Azure Network & Security, Azure Active Directory, Compute & Storage, Backup & DR, Monitoring

* Extensive experience in conducting design workshops, documentation of HLD (High Level Design) documents.

* Rich experience in Migration projects and hand-on experience with ASR/Azure Migrate

* Good Knowledge of Azure DevOps, ARM Templates & PowerShell scripting

* Experience in PaaS services and Containers is preferred.

* Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.

* Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

* Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively.

* Resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.