Cloud Solution Architect - Security and Infrastrcuture

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) with strong expertise in Identity, Active Directory, Security Architecture, Azure, and Hybrid Infrastructure to join our team and lead complex enterprise cloud and infrastructure engagements.

Job Overview:

• Focused on delivering proactive services such as education workshops, delivering assessments and providing expert guidance
  
• Join a highly motivated team of leading industry experts
  Preview new technology before others in the industry and learn how to make the best from it
  
• Visit customers to train them and share industry and development expertise
  
• Be part of a thriving developer community that's constantly looking for ways to improve our customers’ experience, software development goals and use of technology.
  
• Build strong customer relationships and ensure deliveries align with customer projects and milestones.
  
• Gain access to expertise and support from Microsoft’s consulting practice and product groups
  
• Continually learn and grow professionally
  
• Analyze problems
  
• Maintain, extend accreditations and certifications, assist in developing best practices for key technologies and products to support technical team readiness
  
• Demonstrate strong communication skills; ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships, gain trust and respect for Microsoft Premier.
  
• Engineers must also possess strong technical writing, presentation and training skills
  
• Fluent English oral and written communication
  
• Customer facing role, you will partner with different teams to provide high quality work understanding customer objectives and creatively overcome their greatest challenges.
  
• Passion for new innovative technology and drive customer transformation
  
• Ability to travel domestically and work with different cultures and customers.
  
• Ability to communicate with a variety of different audiences and strong presentation skills
  
• Demonstrate effective balance between business and technical acumen
  
• Ability to effectively recognize and adapt to change
  
• Ability to handle customer critical issues and work in difficult situations
  
• Ability to evaluate end-user business requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and then develop and implement the appropriate technical solutions

  Core Technical Priorities:

  Active Directory & Identity

• Design and architect complex enterprise Microsoft Active Directory environments.
  
• Assess existing Active Directory architectures and identify security, configuration, and operational risks.
  
• Design secure Active Directory architectures for enterprise and hybrid environments.
  
• Develop identity architecture strategies covering authentication, authorization, administration, and privileged access.
  
• Design secure administrative models based on tiered administration and separation of administrative privileges.
  
• Provide architecture guidance for Identity & Access Management (IAM) across on-premises and cloud environments.
  
• Assess identity dependencies when designing or migrating enterprise workloads.
  
• Support modernization of traditional Active Directory environments as part of cloud adoption initiatives.

  
  

  Azure & Hybrid Cloud Architecture

• Design secure, scalable, and highly available Microsoft Azure solutions.
  
• Develop Azure IaaS and hybrid-cloud architectures.
  Integrate on-premises datacenters with Azure environments.
  
• Assess existing infrastructure and define cloud adoption and modernization strategies.
  
• Design Azure compute, networking, storage, availability, and security solutions.
  
• Ensure Azure architectures integrate correctly with enterprise identity and security services.
  
• Review cloud architectures against Microsoft best practices.
  
• Develop reusable Azure architecture patterns and standards.
  
• Provide technical guidance for Azure and hybrid Microsoft environments.

  Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud Migration

• Lead complex infrastructure and workload migration initiatives from on-premises environments to Azure.
  
• Assess application, infrastructure, identity, network, and security dependencies before migration.
  
• Ensure identity and security requirements are incorporated into migration architectures.
  
• Develop migration strategies, architecture designs, implementation plans, and rollback strategies.
  
• Support migration of complex or legacy workloads.
  Work across infrastructure, application, security, networking, and operations teams.
  
• Identify technical risks and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies.
  
• Define post-migration identity, security, and operational requirements.