Azure Cloud Architect [Home Based with travel to Milton Keynes]

Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect

Salary: to £70,000

Location: Milton Keynes / Homebased - with the expectation to attend the Group office sites at least once per month, or as and when required for team collaboration days.

You will need to have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, be able to demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic. You will be able to evaluate your approaches based on evolving requirements and will be able to apply a degree of pragmatism, ensuring that solutions are realistic and deliverable.

Working within the Architecture team collaboratively with other members of the DevOps/Cloud governance group, the individual will have an influence and diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Design and develop prototype Infrastructure, that aligns with industry best practices such as the Azure Well-Architected Framework, to prove concepts and provide documentation/guidance for production implementations.


• Design scalable, highly available and secure solutions that fit product functional requirements.


• Work closely with others, such as Development or Platform teams, to agree concepts/solutions that fulfil complex requirements yet remain achievable.


• Work closely with the Security teams to design secure solutions from the get-go and assist with validating designs against best practices.


• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising on how they could be used to better the existing architecture (this will likely include completing a PoC).

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team


• Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members


• Able to self-manage and self-motivate


• An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices


• Strong inter-personal and communication skills


• Able to work under pressure


• Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques

Experience & Skills:

• Strong documentation and diagramming skills to convey complex concepts in a simple manner. 


• An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

1. AKS (deployment + management)


2. API Management


3. App Services


4. Azure SQL


5. Functions


6. Networking


7. App Insights


8. Data Factory


9. Databricks

• Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)


• Solid understanding of 

1. Terraform


2. HELM charts


3. Flux


4. PowerShell / Azure CLI

Advantageous:

• Healthcare or Government related industry experience


• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence

Qualifications:

• Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)


• Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as we’re a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.

ATA Wilde is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this vacancy.