Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect (Hybrid Onsite)

Location: Dimondale, MI

Duration: 12 Months+

Pay Rate: $100/hr. on C2C / 1099 all inclusive (OR) $90/hr. on W2

- Close to Submissions on: 1/16 at 10am EST.

- Interviews: 1st round interviews will be virtual via MS Teams. Cameras must be on. There is a potential 2nd round interviews may be held in-person. Candidates must be available for an in-person interview.

- Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays are required onsite days)

- Local candidates only. Candidates must be located in the State of Michigan at time of submission.

Required Skills

3 - 5 years as a Senior Cloud Engineer

Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic Cloud solutions and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery (3 - 5 years)

3 - 5 years of experience guiding a development team regarding infrastructure

3 - 5 years Cloud Architecting for cloud infrastructure

3 - 5 years of experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction

Preferred Skills

Create, maintain, and troubleshooting skills for cloud infrastructure

Cloud security experience

Chaos engineering experience

Certification

Azure – MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Core Competencies

Design and deliver secure cloud solutions on Azure.

Strong understanding of Linux OS.

Chaos engineering experience

Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.

Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.

Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.

Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.

Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.

Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.

Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps

Core Tasks

Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Services and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.

Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.

Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.

Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.

Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.

Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.

Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.

Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.

Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).

Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.

Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.

Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.

Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.

Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.

Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).

Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.

Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.

Design and develop cloud cost management solutions

Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting

Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations

Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery

Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubrick

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $90.00 - $100.00 per hour

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Experience:

Azure: 1 year (Preferred)
AWS: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

Dimondale, MI 48821 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

Dimondale, MI 48821: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dimondale, MI 48821

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