Azure Architect

Cloud EngineerCloud EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

81 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudTerraform

Job Description

Azure Architect

Sword Group

• Develop comprehensive Azure architecture designs encompassing infrastructure, platform services, networking, security, and governance. • Advise clients on best practices for cloud adoption, migration strategies, and hybrid cloud integration. • Create detailed architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical specifications to support implementation and governance. • Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery. • Lead architectural reviews and enforce policies ensuring compliance with regulatory and organisational standards. • Stay current with Azure technology trends and innovations to recommend improvements and optimisations. • Own end to end technical delivery, including planning, build, testing, deployment and operational handover.

Job Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and delivering Microsoft Azure cloud solutions at enterprise scale.
  • Strong knowledge of Azure infrastructure services, PaaS offerings, security, networking, and governance.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, ARM templates & Terraform), and automation tools.
  • Understanding of hybrid cloud architectures and integration with on-premises environments.
  • Deep working knowledge and understanding of Microsoft CAF and WAF
  • Familiarity with compliance standards relevant to energy, finance, or public sectors.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Experience with identity management solutions such as Entra ID.
  • Strong pre-sales capabilities and proven track record for designing complex solutions for a range of customers, from Mid-market to Enterprise scale.
  • Experience of designing and successfully delivering solutions, including the creation of proposals, SoW’s, high-level designs, RFP responses, roadmaps and strategies.
  • 5+ years of experience in either a channel, vendor or customer side hands-on technical consulting/ architect role
  • Strong background of producing high quality documentation and solution artefacts.
  • Microsoft certifications and accreditations in Azure such as AZ-305, AZ-700 and AZ-500 essential for this role
  • Microsoft certifications and accreditations in Azure such as AZ-140, AI-102 and SC-300 desirable but not essential
  • Experience designing and implementation solutions with AWS beneficial
  • Experience and knowledge of Microsoft, ZeroTrust, NCSC, NIST, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials frameworks and best practice and how they translate to controls, policies and configuration baselines valuable
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies such as Agile and DevOps.
  • Experience in planning and migrating from on-premises or Cloud to Microsoft Azure using tools such as ASR, Azure Migrate and data migration assistant etc.
  • PowerShell, Graph API and automation

Benefits

  • Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.
  • Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.
  • A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes.

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