Job Title: Azure Solution Architect
Location: Jersey City NJ (Hybrid 3 Days Onsite In A Week)
Duration: 612 Months Contract To Hire
Interview :: Video
Visa: U.S Citizen/Green Card Holder
LinkedIn: Required
Notes:
Looking for candidates who can work on W2 Only
Recent financial services experience required
Role Description:
We are looking for an experienced Azure Solution Architect to join our dynamic team. This role requires a deep understanding of Microsoft Azure and involves designing building and deploying cloud solutions to meet complex business requirements. The Azure Solution Architect will play a key role in cloud architecture and be responsible for guiding the team through the cloud adoption process ensuring best practices in security scalability and costeffectiveness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Solution Design: Lead the design of endtoend Azurebased solutions leveraging IaaS PaaS and SaaS services.
- Cloud Strategy & Architecture: Develop cloud strategies aligned with business goals including hybrid and multicloud environments.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud solutions adhere to organizational security standards data privacy and regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR HIPAA).
- Optimization: Analyze existing onpremise solutions and provide recommendations for cloud migration cost optimization and performance improvements.
- Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders (developers network engineers and business teams) to deliver scalable and secure cloud architectures.
- Automation & CI/CD: Design and implement automation for infrastructure provisioning configuration and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and other tools.
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Establish monitoring logging and alerting solutions for cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability and disaster recovery.
Qualifications:
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in cloud computing with at least 3 years specializing in Azure architecture.
- Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (preferred) or equivalent cloud certifications.
Technical Skills:
- Strong understanding of Azure services such as Azure Active Directory Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Functions App Services Azure SQL CosmosDB and Virtual Machines.
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or ARM templates.
- Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
- Knowledge of networking principles including virtual networks VPNs load balancing and firewalls in Azure.
Soft Skills:
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Problemsolving mindset with a focus on innovation and business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.
- Knowledge of cloud governance and cost management in Azure.
- Experience with cloudnative architectures (e.g. microservices serverless computing).