Senior Solution Architect

About you :

You are an experienced Sr. Cloud Consultant; You love challenges both technically and business focused and would love the opportunity to become a hands-on technical consultant.

For Location: Mumbai MH- (Hybrid - if Other from Any Other Location)

Must have skills :

- Excellent Communication Skills

- Cloud Assessments, Implementations & Migrations

- AWS / Azure/GCP IaaS, PaaS

- Cloud Networking (VNET, LAN, WAN, IPSEC, Express Routes)

- Backup & Disaster Recovery

- AWS / Azure Solutions Architect Certifications

Key Duties & Responsibilities :

- IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy for clients to provide services with an appetite to contribute solutions to offer as part of the sales team. This includes cloud adoption plans, cloud application, design, and cloud management and monitoring.

- Oversee application architecture and deployment in cloud environments - including public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud.

- The candidate will be required to architect, design and implement solutions using different service offered by MS Azure and combination of enterprise management solutions (Backup/Monitoring/Automation etc.)

- Act as a consultant to the organization clients and need to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and issues.

- Be able to recognize, evaluate and communicate beneficial options and variations.

- Need to want to change their skill sets and want to embrace new things

- Include a strong understanding of cloud computing technology and infrastructure as well as experience designing and migrating applications to the cloud.

- Should have experience in a consultant role, as they need to build relationships with the partners.

- Need to implement & integrate tools and services for all areas of cloud computing, such as data and networks, cloud security and networking as well as dominate ecosystem IaaS and PaaS OEMs.

- You will join the scoping & implementation team and focus on adding hands-on technical expertise, ensuring outcomes meet the highest technical standards.

- We expect our consultants to understand the client's project aims and to offer professional insight to ensure client satisfaction as well as representing the commercial interests.

- We always expect our consultants to be very self-sufficient when engaged in smaller assignments representing the company by themselves, always ensuring customer satisfaction through high quality work and outstanding client care.

-Responsible for developing and implementing the solution for our customers.

- You will act as the SME on Public Cloud and related technologies for the project delivery team. Strong experience in a multi-disciplined team is critical as is your ability to clearly communicate complex technology solutions.

- You will be responsible for defining tasks, scope and effort from user stories during user research sessions.

- You will be responsible for the production of high level and low-level design documents and other technical project related artefacts.

- You will be involved in the qualification and bid process for new opportunities providing relevant technical input into the process.

Technical Experience :

- Overall 16 Years having Minimum of 12 years' experience in IT engineering including at least 6+ Years' supporting & implementing cloud-based infrastructure solutions.

- Work experience in multiple technology disciplines; required.

- 4+ Years of experience in Technical Lead role preferred

- Excellent Microsoft Azure experience in IaaS & PaaS workloads

- Existing experience in other cloud environments like AWS or Azure (Priority AWS)

- An in depth understanding of Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud solutions and experienced in integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models with a specific focus on Azure.

- Extensive experience in conducting Azure Cloud Readiness Assessments observing business and technical perspectives

- Experience in evaluating existing data center and digital strategies

- Experience in conducting cloud service maps, TCO analysis, security considerations as part of a wider Cloud Adoption Framework

- Experience in developing project plans, solution architectures & deployment strategies for Azure based projects.

- Excellent experience in executing Azure deployment, migrations & lift/shifts.

- Strong knowledge of the Azure well Architected Framework(s) around IaaS & PaaS workloads

- Strong understanding of Cloud Security Principles and its practical implementations

- Web Application Firewalls

- SIEM

- EDR

- Identity Management & SSO etc

- Implementing and hosting large, complex workloads (windows and non-windows) in Azure IaaS and configuring correct VM size and storage selection.

- Existing experience & understanding of virtualization concepts, both on-premise & in Cloud.

- Extensive knowledge of networking concepts both on-premise & in cloud like IP's, LAN, WAN, Subnets, Vnets.

- Must understand the network topology & concepts of Switches, Firewalls etc.

- Experience in WAN technologies & how muti-site environments (Cloud only & Hybrid) connects with each other.

- IPSEC VPN

- Express Route

- SDWAN

- MPLS etc

- Experience in implementing Azure PaaS services like web sites, web/worker roles, SQL Azure database, storage, service bus, Web Jobs, cloud services, Remote Apps etc.

- Experience in designing & implementing AVD workloads for customers.

- Experience and understanding of security requirements for cloud like IAM, Web Application Firewalls, Data protection etc.

- Experience in defining highly available, DR solutions in Azure.

- Should have experience in handling Azure Backup/recovery & Site Recovery situations.

- Experience in defining cloud strategy for enterprise.

- Experience in automation solutions using Azure Resource Manager, PowerShell & Terraform etc.

- Understand IAM services like Active Directory & Entra ID.

General Experience :

- Ability to consult and provide guidance on industry best practices on demand.

- Significant English communication skills both verbal and written.

- Have experience of stakeholder management within complex organizations

- Be willing to work in US time zones & in 24-7 environment.

- Be a fast learner, ambitions, and comfortable working in high-pressure environments.

- Exhibit a proven track record of continually looking for ways to improve customer satisfaction.

- Consultative approach. You will be client facing and will need to be able to convey complex themes and ideas in clear and concise language.

- Excellent verbal & written communication skills (English)

- Assist in the pre-sales process for professional services opportunities.

- Assist in RFI & RFP responses.

Projects :

- Demonstrable experience in architecting & implementing large scale cloud migration projects/programs

- Demonstrate the ability to solve complex, multi-system problems

- Extensive experience in architecting enterprise public cloud solutions

- Be comfortable with being responsible for the delivery of significant cloud and automation projects.

- Experience of working in a close Agile / Scrum team

Qualifications & Certifications :

- Require a technical Bachelor of Science degree - such as computer science, engineering - prefer Master of Science. Additional certifications, both vendor specific and vendor neutral.

- Ideal candidate must have the following certifications,

- Microsoft Azure Architect Expert

- Candidates with additional Infrastructure certifications like MCSA, CCNA, VCP, PCNSA etc will be preferred.

- Candidates with certifications AWS & GCP as well will be preferred.

- Candidates with PMP or PRINCE2 certifications will be preferred.

- Notice Period Mandate - Onboarding Time - Specifically- Immediate Joiners / Less then 15-20 Days Time if serving notice period (Negotiable),