Associate Architect - Platform (Azure)

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Designation: Associate Architect/Architect - Platform
Experience Level: 6-12 Years
Location: Mumbai/Bangalore/Trivandrum

Role & Responsibilities:
● Guide the client on technology evaluation, technical thought leadership, requirement gathering and direction
● Design and document the detailed architecture and provide the walkthrough to the client directly
● Take a lead in preparing functional and technical specification documents
● Guide, and nurture the team members for successful delegation
● Lead project deliveries and engage with the Go-To-Market teams for presales requirements
● Work closely with the business team to highlight and mitigate any risks to the projects proactively
● Maintain a rapport with client-partners, and manage their expectations and plan for engineering.
● Guide and help team members debug and solve technical problems.
● Lead engagements with multiple work-streams; prepare project plans and manage deliverables
● Review and perform code walkthrough for quality deliverables to the client

● Showcase thought leadership on technology roadmaps, agile development methodologies, and out-of-the-box thinking

Skills required:
● Over 5+ years of IT infrastructure experience with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including designing, deploying, and managing scalable cloud solutions. Strong knowledge of Azure services such as compute, networking, storage, and serverless architectures (Azure Functions, App Services), along with implementation of Azure best practices. Experienced in virtual networking, identity management (Azure AD), and compliance frameworks including HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST.
● Detailed understanding and proven implementations for DevSecOps pipelines and culture, Containerization(Kubernetes, Docker), Service mesh(Envoy, Tanzu etc), Database modelling, and Operations(logging, monitoring, alerting)
● Thorough understanding of low-latency API architectures using either serverless or server based services
● Must have good understanding of following resources:
o Networking - Load balancing(HTTPS, TCP, SSL, etc), VPNs(BGP, IPSec), high speed private connections(like Partner Interconnect, Express routes, etc)
o Security - Secrets management, IAM policies(Least privilege), Compliances, CMEK keys, safeguarding external API endpoints(using application firewalls or cloud security services)
o Setup of Cloud Foundations and Cloud best practices to help clients build their cloud footprints and adopt its management
o Precision to use the right Cloud services based on clients requirements
o Past architecture implementations on Kubernetes - pods, services, ingress(default and 3rd party like Nginx), service mesh(like Tanzu), best practices
● Basic experience with programming languages such as Python or Java or Golang
● Experienced in IaC(Terraform), Vaults, and scripting languages such as BASH, Shell or Powershell
● Implementation of processes within Client's environment, such as implemetation of devops model for CICD, operations for visibility, etc
● Design, and prototype new solutions for smoother delivery, implement self-healing, and alerting capabilities for mission critical applications
● Proven ability to consume Clients DevOps tools(such as Jenkins, Cloud Build, Bamboo, Trevor, Sonarqube, checkmarx, artifactory etc) to build DevSecOps pipelines
● Must have some experience in Application, and Data migration projects either for onprem data centers to Cloud or between Cloud to Cloud
● Work along with Account leads and Business team to grow the account based on future possible use cases
● Well versed in identifying the right service and databases based on requirement(such as SQL NoSql, Redis, data warehousing)
● Strong Linux System experience with an appetite to troubleshoot and guide team towards resolution
● Experience with Multi-regional architecture setup and aware about known issues at compute, and database level
● Certifications are added advantage