[Remote] Senior Azure Engineer (Austin, TX)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quisitive is a global Microsoft services and solutions partner, recognized for delivering award-winning Microsoft solutions. They are seeking a Senior Azure Engineer to lead strategic accounts and design, implement, and operate cloud solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, compliance, reliability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships
• Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client’s Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics
• Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Cloud Adoption, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Compliance, and Security
• Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts
• Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies
• Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers
• Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams
• Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants
• Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience
• Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives

Skills

• Heavy involvement with customer architecture including the following:
• Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships
• Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client's Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics
• Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Cloud Adoption, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Compliance, and Security
• Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts
• Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies
• Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers
• Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams
• Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants
• Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience
• Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives
• Deep Understanding of Azure Infrastructure as a Service – Compute, Storage, Network, Data, Firewall
• Deep Understanding of Azure Policy
• Deep Understanding of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Deep Understanding of Log Analytics/Azure Monitor
• Deep Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID
• Overall understanding of key concepts of Azure
• Overall understanding of Identity and access management
• Overall understanding of Security and Compliance
• Overall understanding of Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Synapse
• Required: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate. A willingness to obtain these in the first month will be accepted
• Platform as a Service – Databrick, Fabric
• Infrastructure as Code – Bicep, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure Custom Policies
• Azure DevOps
• Familiarity with ITIL framework and ITSM toolsets
• Experience with IT Consulting
• Experience with large IT operations
• Nice to have: Microsoft Certified – Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Company Overview

• Microsoft technology consulting. AI, cloud innovation, data and analytics, application development, cybersecurity & managed IT services. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.quisitive.com.

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