Azure Platform Specialist

Azure Platform Specialist will work with a team of individuals who are committed to define technical strategy, solution architecture, design and delivering end-to-end cloud platform needs to support product development teams and platform reliability engineering teams. Expected to be the arch/expert for Azure Kubernetes Svc (AKS).

You’ll demonstrate strong technical competence and business acumen through engaging in technology decision-making discussions related to agility and business value surrounding the Azure Cloud platform.

**Roles and Responsibilities: What You will Do**
- Owns the cloud architecture for AKS solutions and partners with Domain Architect and IT Leadership to advance this cloud strategy
- Partners with Cloud Platform Leader to provide consistent input to the technology roadmap
- Evangelize & implement Azure Cloud services and lead building cloud-native services and solutions
- Gather requirements for all aspects of Cloud delivery, propose solutions and document.
- Create, document reference architecture, high-level & low-level designs, and design decisions
- Conduct workshops, forums, training and contribute to cloud development and delivery
- Collaborate with Enterprise architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams
- Technical alignment of Global/Regional/Local configuration and deployment architectures
- Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team
- Maintain quality documentation for enterprise-wide solutions, standards, and best practices.
- Establishes architecture framework for cloud-based delivery that enables CI/CD, cloud native development, and integration with cloud providers
- Aligns cloud security to the overall enterprise architecture and security footprint

**Technical skills/Product knowledge: What You will need**
- Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
- Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions
- Hands on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github.
- Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS
- Domain expertise of Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and N0-SQL DB’s, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity
- Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security and privacy).
- Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other nonfunctional systems requirements
- Self-Organizer, good negotiator, stakeholder management and manages opposing viewpoints
- Strong communication skills -the willingness to engage discourse, ability to “make the case” and understand various tradeoffs in architectural discovery engineering

**Knowledge and education: What will set you apart**
- 3+ years of experience of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, Github, etc...)
- 10+ years of overall IT experience focused on infrastructure or software development

**_- AKS Expert required; Certified Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-303/AZ-304) preferred; Certified Azure DevOps (AZ-400) preferred_