Azure Cloud Architect

Salary: to £70,000

Location: Milton Keynes / Homebased - with the expectation to attend the Group office sites at least once per month, or as and when required for team collaboration days.

You will need to have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, be able to demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic. You will be able to evaluate your approaches based on evolving requirements and will be able to apply a degree of pragmatism, ensuring that solutions are realistic and deliverable.

Working within the Architecture team collaboratively with other members of the DevOps/Cloud governance group, the individual will have an influence and diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

Design and develop prototype Infrastructure, that aligns with industry best practices such as the Azure Well-Architected Framework, to prove concepts and provide documentation/guidance for production implementations.

Design scalable, highly available and secure solutions that fit product functional requirements.

Work closely with others, such as Development or Platform teams, to agree concepts/solutions that fulfil complex requirements yet remain achievable.

Work closely with the Security teams to design secure solutions from the get-go and assist with validating designs against best practices.

Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising on how they could be used to better the existing architecture (this will likely include completing a PoC).

Personal Attributes:

Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team

Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members

Able to self-manage and self-motivate

An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices

Strong inter-personal and communication skills

Able to work under pressure

Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques

Experience & Skills:

Strong documentation and diagramming skills to convey complex concepts in a simple manner.

An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

1.AKS (deployment + management)

2.API Management

3.App Services

4.Azure SQL

5.Functions

6.Networking

7.App Insights

8.Data Factory

9.Databricks

Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)

Solid understanding of

1.Terraform

2.HELM charts

3.Flux

4.PowerShell / Azure CLI

Advantageous:

Healthcare or Government related industry experience

Understanding of JIRA and Confluence

Qualifications:

Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)

Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as were a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.

ATA Wilde is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this vacancy.

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