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GERMAN SPEAKING - TECHNICAL EXPERTISE for AZURE INFRASTRUCTURE role.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) focusing on Azure Infrastructure to be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within client's Azure Infra customer base. This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and operations with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges. You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, platform engineers and Developers. You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption.

Responsibilities

Understand customers overall cloud portfolio, business aligned IT priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and scalable cloud solutions leveraging hand-on and practical expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions

Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a migration and modernization roadmap with customers using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows, Security, Networking, etc.), and good understanding of App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate

Ensure all solutions leverage the design and operations guidance according to the Well-Architected framework across all pillars, including performance efficiency, security, operational excellence, reliability, and cost optimization

Run Architectural Design Sessions to build plan for implementing solution governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production. Use CAF Landing Zones to rapidly prototype and deliver proof-of-concepts that accelerate production deployment

Expertise Required

Experience in the enterprise customer arena

Face-to-face customer engagement skills

Excellent written, oral and presentation skills

Degree qualification or equivalent experience

Must Soft skills, strong communication skills

Certified in Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions is added advantage

Technical Expertise Required

The role requires depth knowledge in a number of the following technology areas: We need individuals that have strong Azure Infrastructure knowledge

Compute: Virtual machines (VMs); setup, availability, reliability, scalability, security, and performance in both Windows and Linux operating systems. The candidate must possess scripting skills using Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell.

Storage: Configuring of Azure Files, Azure Disks, eSAN, and Azure Blob storage. The candidate must possess skills on Storage Availability,

Networking: Configure resource connectivity securely and reliably. This includes virtual networks, subnets, load balancers, firewalls (WAF), and VPN gateways.

Azure Cost Optimization , Cost Management, Azure Monitor, Bastion, Azure Arc, Container Services, Azure Backup, App Services and Azure Site Recovery.

Good knowledge of Azure Migration Accelerator, Azure Arc, Azure Backup And Azure Site Recovery, Azure Landing Zone, Azure Monitor Workloads Azure Monitor, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure VMware Services, Azure Web Application Firewall , Microsoft Azure: Hybrid Identity, Microsoft Azure: Infrastructure as a Service , Powershell knowledge.

Experience with Azure specific solutions and infrastructure, including experience in Azure Security principles and solutions, containerization technologies, and Identity solutions in Azure

Understanding of end-to-end strategies and best practices to build large scale multi-tenant solutions.