Azure Architect

Azure Architect

Extelligence is an intelligent partner that goes the extra mile. We provide customized information management solutions for major industries. Our team in Prague and Bucharest is working with international companies, transforming, and adding value to their business on a daily basis. We are growing quickly, and we are interested to bring more talented individuals into our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Plan, design, develop and execute Azure cloud platform/infrastructure solutions
  • Collaborating with the application teams for ensuring suitable translation of architectural solutions into robust and effective implementation by the platform team
  • Identifying the application teams requirements, analyze the alternatives, and conduct solution recommendations related to the Azure platform, resources, security and network configurations
  • Define an Azure platform solution using architectural design principles based on application requirements
  • Provide implementation guidance to Azure platform and application teams based on best practices throughout the lifecycle of application hosting/migration to cloud
  • Support application solution architect in creation of business solution by recommending right Azure technology platform/infrastructure
  • Support cloud migration efforts with advanced Azure cloud-based solutions
  • Contribute to technical cloud strategy
  • Address high-risk issues
  • Support Azure platform team in Deployment, Operations and Monitoring of Azure platform/resources including VM instances, databases, storage & others
  • Support Azure platform team in monitoring and optimizing the performance, scalability, reliability and availability of the Azure platform/environment
  • Support Azure platform team in troubleshooting and resolution of issues with the Azure infrastructure, resources
  • Collaborate with Azure platform and other IT teams to ensure the smooth operation of the overall Azure platform/environment

Essential Skills/Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in Azure technical architect role using service and hosting solutions such as Azure cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms
  • Hands on experience in Azure cloud native architecture design, implementation of distributed, fault tolerant enterprise platform and applications
  • Knowledge of current and emerging Azure cloud technologies, native/3rd party tools, and system architectures
  • Good knowledge of all phases of Azure infrastructure and concepts such as VPC, subnets, TGW, routing, security groups, storage, database, VM, IAM, security, encryption, replication and DR.
  • Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD as well as agile tools and processes (native and 3rd party tools)
  • Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Desirable Skills/Experience:

  • 2+ years of experience in solution architect role using service and hosting solutions such as Azure cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms
  • Experience in workload migration to Azure cloud (Refactor, Replatform, Repurchase, Rehost, Relocate)
  • Experience in hybrid cloud deployments (Azure, AWS, on-premise)
  • DevOps experience in planning, coding, building, testing and release of services

Working with Extelligence:

  • We take care of the important things that matter to contractors, for example, we guarantee on-time payment for your work. You will never have to chase us for payment.
  • We always seek to have long term relationships with our team and we always seek to offer opportunities to extend cooperation beyond the first contract or project.
  • Extelligence is a multicultural team, we have more than 15 different nationalities working with us.
  • We also organize events to bring our team together including team building activities and social events.
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Remote in EU

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