Senior Azure Infrastructure Architect

$150,000 - $200,000/Yr

Redapt - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Redapt Inc. is a pioneering world-class data center infrastructure integrator, technology engineering firm, and cloud services provider. Our teams focus on delivering innovative solutions and services that power our customers' most demanding applications and enable them to extract powerful insights from data that drive true business value. Redapt is looking for a self-motivated highly experienced Senior Azure Infrastructure Architect to join our Modern Data Center Practice working on enterprise level Azure infrastructure projects designing and deploying cloud environments for hosting business application services. We are looking for someone with deep experience migrating on prem (on premises) data centers to Azure along with strong skills in Networking, Architectural Design, Security, and SQL. In this role, the qualified candidate will have experience in customer-facing consulting, leading teams of Architects in cloud solutions development and delivery. The qualified candidate is expected to possess deep Azure cloud solution engineering skills as well as architecture expertise and excellent Azure best practices expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and consult projects, remotely, in a hands-on role driving Azure cloud migration/adoption from inception to production.
• Designing, testing, and implementing Azure migrations. Assess On-prem/Non-Azure Cloud application services migrations in both a manual and automated manner.
• Consult and influence customers' technical road map to Microsoft best Practices.
• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, and solution development for Microsoft Azure cloud-based solutions, including leading and delegating to project engineers.
• Architect, design, and implement plans for deploying complex application workloads on Microsoft Azure.
• Architect highly available, backup, and disaster recovery solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Partner with project teams, functional architects, systems specialists, and other technical resources within Redapt and with customers.
• Assume responsibility for all customer presentations and deliverables.
• Mentor and provide technical oversight to implementation teams while working in a coordinated manner to deliver and deploy the designed architecture.
• Create reference architectures, technical collateral, and project close documentation.
• Support the development and growth of Redapt team by following and improving upon the delivery processes.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
• Experience creating and presenting technical customer solution designs and best practice proposals.
• Experience in building statements of work, estimates, staffing plans, and workplans for large complex cloud solutions including migrations is a plus.
• Provide Cloud thought leadership through publications and speaking engagements as needed.

Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge consulting with Microsoft Azure IaaS services (i.e. Compute, networking, databases, storage, backup and archive, DR, security, monitoring, etc.).
• Understanding network topologies, load balancing, and segmentation.
• Experience with Application Migration with Azure (ASR) and Azure Migrate.
• Experience with establishing technical strategy and architecture at an enterprise level.
• Terraform focused Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• AWS experience specifically networking 1 year is a plus.
• VMware experience is a plus.
• Firewall experience, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point and Juniper is a plus.
• Experience working with Microsoft Partner Network and its contractual processes.
• Be certified or demonstrate the ability to become certified as an Azure Cloud Solution Architect.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure Security & Identity services (i.e. Domain Services, Azure Security Center, Azure Governance).
• Experience leading Azure Cloud project delivery, i.e. responsible for project deliverables, technical and architecture oversight including first line escalations, project delivery approach, and delivery performance - working with delivery and Project Management teams.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Experience leading and working with diverse geographically distributed teams.

Nice-to-haves

• 7+ years of overall industry experience and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience with demonstrated Cloud architecture projects and deployments.
• 3+ years of overall Client facing consultant experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud solutions, platforms, and technologies.
• 3+ years of experience across the business development life cycle (i.e. Pre-Sales, Solution Architecture, Pricing, and Proposal Development).
• Must have extensive working experience with Microsoft technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work-related experience.

Benefits

• The salary for this full-time position in the US is $150,000 - $200,000/yr + benefits. Redapt salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The salary range displayed in each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note, the base pay offered may vary within the range depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to work location, job-related knowledge/skills, relevant education/training, and level of experience. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include commission/incentives or bonus or benefits.