Azure Cloud Architect - Infrastructure

• Dublin based, 2 days/week in the office
• €80k-€90k/year + bonus up to 20% + great benefits package
• Technical freedom and excellent professional growth

Your Responsabilities:

• Lead Solution Design & Delivery: Successfully lead the design and development of at least two complex technical solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform, ensuring they meet client business needs for scalability, resilience, and security.
• Drive Client Engagement & Advocacy: Actively engage with senior technical individuals within client organisations, fostering strong relationships and effectively educating them on the value proposition of Microsoft Azure, leading to increased cloud adoption.
• Contribute to Practice Growth: Proactively promote Azure cloud capabilities internally to sales and delivery teams, contributing to new business opportunities and sharing best-practice knowledge within the public cloud solutions architect community.
• Architectural Excellence & Governance: Establish and implement a clear vision, roadmap, and governance framework for a key client, identifying strategic IT impacts and defining target architectures that align with business requirements and optimise costs.
• Solution Architecture & Design: Leading the design and development of technical solutions on the Microsoft Platform (Azure, Azure AD, Azure AD B2C), ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and secure. This includes selecting appropriate cloud services, defining migration strategies, and designing disaster recovery and high availability architectures.
• Client Advisory & Relationship Management: Engaging in deep architectural discussions with clients, educating them on Azure's value, building strong technical relationships, and acting as a liaison between clients, delivery teams, and support. This also involves assisting clients in establishing IT vision, roadmap, and governance.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Providing technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineering teams, assessing project architecture, providing constructive feedback, and contributing to the development of cloud governance frameworks.
• Innovation & Best Practices: Capturing and sharing best-practice knowledge, evaluating emerging cloud technologies, conducting proof-of-concepts, and contributing to internal and external publications.

Your Experience:

• Extensive Cloud Architecture Experience: In-depth, hands-on experience with large-scale implementations of Microsoft Azure, coupled with extensive enterprise, full-life cycle architecture experience in the professional IT/Software Development services industry.
• Experience with AWS or GCP also is a significant advantage.
• Migration and Optimisation Expertise: A strong background in planning and executing cloud migration strategies (e.g. rehost, replatform, refactor) and optimising cloud services for performance and cost, including a deep understanding of cloud pricing models and cost control mechanisms.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to cloud engineering teams, develop robust cloud governance frameworks, and design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures.
• Certifications & Modern Cloud Concepts: MUST Possess an Azure Architecture certification (additional AWS/GCP certifications are preferred) and a solid understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code, distributed computing, cloud security, IaaS & PaaS architectures, DevOps, SRE, and containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

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