Architect, Public Cloud

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**Want to be a part of our team?**

**Working at NTT**

NTT is currently seeking a Public Cloud Architect to join our CSD Managed Services Public Cloud organization.

**Responsibilities**:

- Subject matter expert in Public Cloud Architecture and Cloud Adoption Frameworks, as it relates to compute, network, storage, and native SaaS/PaaS offerings
- Partner with sales, product, and architecture teams to create architecture roadmaps and design product and services to meet customer needs
- Adopt shift-left approach in each solution
- Liaise with other Architecture teams to develop solution designs and review alternative solutions for best fit
- Collaborate with Product Engineering to develop tooling and infrastructure for cloud development and cloud operations use cases, with a focus on AKS/microservices deployment and distributed systems monitoring and fault analysis
- Strategize with business and service lines to develop solutions based on a variety of criteria including a clear description of services, functionality, scalability, future proofing, and cost
- Lead pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing and knowledge transfer; worked with engineering teams to accelerate software delivery
- Implement landing zones and build public cloud infrastructure for migrations and new environments
- Deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure using industry best practices
- Adapt to changing priorities and thrive in very dynamic environment with multi stakeholders from multiple lines of businesses that may having competing needs; maintain deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends in cloud security. Deploy networking solutions by using the Azure Portal and other methods, including PowerShell, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Assist with client pre and post-sale engagements
- Assist with technical aspects of solution proposals, SOW, and estimation
- Define and implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure
- Work closely with the Product Engineer team to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure
- Leverage DevOps best practices to deploy Infrastructure as Code
- Act as technical lead for Public Cloud projects for Managed Services
- Contribute to and support execution of client engagements
- Acting as a point of escalation for support and troubleshooting existing environments as issues arise (connectivity or performance issues for example)

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Expert Azure Cloud infrastructure experience
- Minimum eight years of recent experience designing, implementing, and operating secure architecture and reference architectures in public cloud
- Azure Certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, Solutions Architect Expert
- Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills
- Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Networking challenges
- Must be able to effectively orchestrate and manage several dozen separate public cloud environments to a high standard of care and competence
- Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders
- Expertise in core infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, network routing and security group/firewall management; extensive working knowledge of Azure products and services
- Azure networking: Hub and spoke, Virtual WAN, SD-WAN
- Experienced in container and microservices such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Automation; Infrastructure as Code; VM setup/teardown, scripting, platform tools (Azure Resource Manager), exposure to 3rd party tool like Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code using tools such as but not limited to, Terraform, Git Lab
- DevOps: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Pipelines, Branching, Merges, Approval gates
- Logging and monitoring of cloud deployments

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a computer science or information technology, computer engineering or similar field
- TOGAF or similar architecture certification preferred.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Understanding of other Hypervisors such as AWS, GCP, OCI
- Bachelor's degree from