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Azure Platform Architect
The Applications & Infrastructure Market Unit is the business area within Avanade responsible for what we want to be known for in the market. Within our Market Units, we have core Offerings, which are the solutions we deliver to our clients
Through the thought leadership and services developed by the Market Units, Avanade has now become an official certified supplier of end to end Azure Hybrid Cloud Managed Services, including the provision of Avanade's own Azure Stack integrated system. This is a differentiated proposition that uniquely positions Avanade as a systems integrator for Microsoft Azure.
We are looking for Azure Platform Architect to support pre-sales and delivery of our Azure and Azure Stack services and continuing to support our regional teams with their Azure solutions and supporting their clients on their cloud journey.
It would be beneficial to have skills in non-Microsoft products such as any of the following:
Linux
Red Hat
AWS
Oracle
SAP
The above list is an example of skills, but others are welcome also.
The successful candidate will also have strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to effectively interact with both client technical teams and senior managers. They will be able to independently plan, organize, prioritize, and manage tasks to deliver outcomes, work effectively under pressure, and meet tight timelines.
Day-to-day, you will:
Provide Azure and Azure hybrid sales support, including estimating, high-level solution development, cloud strategy, and workshop delivery.
Deliver technical architecture guidance on our engagements, and provide feedback around the evolution of Azure solutions.
Participate in internal briefings on Azure and Azure Stack, to build awareness across Avanade, Accenture and Microsoft
About you
You are serious about cloud, serious about Azure, and serious about enabling our clients to take maximum advantage of our cloud services and offerings. You are highly entrepreneurial and can build a results-focused customer-centric culture and develop solutions that deliver results for clients.
Your professional and technical skills most likely include some of the following:
Azure
Azure Stack knowledge
Some knowledge of application architectures using non-Microsoft technologies such as Linux, SAP, and Open Source technologies such as OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes and similar.
You likely have a Bachelor's of Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related field, and/or equivalent professional experience, and enjoy working in a fast-paced and ever-dynamic environment.
Technical Skills
Extensive experience with microservices and API based solution architectures, Azure cloud native application architectures and design patterns
Extensive experience with modern web application architectures/frameworks (Angular, React, ecc.)
Experience in working with Microsoft and eventually open source code and frameworks (hands-on experience in C#, XML, JSON, Javascript, SQL, Microsoft Azure, etc)
Deep knowledge of the DevOps practices for on-prem and on cloud projects
Knowledge of RDBMS and/or NOSQL databases
Basic knowledge of analytics and cognitive services
Ability to design product/solution architectures, by translating customers' requirements to a solution and ability to validate/ implement complex solutions