Senior Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Architect 80-100% (m/w/d)

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Your MissionAs a Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Architect you join the newly established IT Architecture team and participate in shaping the future architecture, organisation and strategy, especially with respect to agility and cloud best practices. You bring hands-on experience in designing and building cloud infrastructure solutions and can readily switch in a bi-modal IT world between taking infrastructure architecture ownership within projects and infrastructure team and acting as a change agent and servant leader for agile products teams. As a Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Architect, you will be the go-to person for infrastructure technologies both on-perm and in the Azure Cloud. With an upcoming IT cloud strategy, adoption and the lean-agile transition coming, you will guide, support, coach and advice engineers, projects, products on decision making, to adopt best practices of application delivery, Security and Automation. Your tasksLean Technology Strategy and ArchitectureContribute to the definition of the IT Cloud Strategy and lead Adoption, IT architecture vision and road maps, security principles, landing zone, subscriptions, and standards (community of practices)Lead and define with stakeholders (EA, architects, and engineering, etc.. ) the infrastructure (incl. Cloud) architecture and road mapLead and define with stakeholders (EA, architects, and engineering, etc.. ) the reference architecture, infrastructure reusable patternsWork with IT Portfolio Manager to develop, analyse, split and realise the implementation of enabler epics (Business and IT capabilities)Own the infrastructure & cloud architecture incl. network overview to ensure resilience, performance and control over costsParticipate in portfolio planning to determine the capacity allocation for future workSupport teams in the Agile and Cloud transition by advising implementing best practicesInfrastructure and Operation support and coachingSupport, coach, advice the infrastructure and operation team to gain knowledge on Infrastructure & Cloud best practices and gain autonomy. Lead activities when necessarySupport, help, coach, advice the infrastructure and operation team to fully automate IaaS (IAC) and self-service portal for projects/products team.Assess, plan advise and implement transition of existing infrastructure to Azure cloud while owning and maintaining current on-perm infrastructure during transitionLead and support the team to assess periodically costs and define optimisation activitiesProducts and Solutions support and coachingDefine and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision across our major program (D365 FO implementation), projects and different products team coming in the future.Ensure the solutions and products under development are fit for its intended purpose by providing leadership on solution design on infrastructure and security layersSupport, coach, advice the others architects and engineers, projects and products team, ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision and enable infrastructure delivery (IAC coaching)Ensure that solutions design balance functional, service quality, security, cost and system management requirementsYour qualifications10-15 years of total experience in Infrastructure5+ years' experience with Cloud Service Providers3+ years of experience as Azure Infrastructure Architect and Python programmingAdvance level Certification [AZ-303 & AZ-304] on Azure is required.SAFe (or similar) and TOGAF Enterprise Architect certification is a plusGood understating on Transformational and Optimization projects related to Cloud Adoption.Experience on Cloud operations - CI/CD , Monitoring management, governance, cost control, compliance and security is requiredExperience on Assessment - Discovery, Dependency Mapping, Wave planning, migration planExperience and understanding of REST APIs, JSON, SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Azure AD and AD, Azure AD B2CIAC tools (Terraform/ARM templates), Docker, Kubernetes, Configuration and Cost Management tools knowledge and experience is requiredStrong learning aptitude; ability and drive to learn new technologies independentlyStrong ownership mindset; self-motivated and passionate; able to deliver without being askedExcellent leadership, communication, visualization and presentation skills in English (German at B2 or higher a plus), able to communicate with technical and business audiences effectively Impressum - https://www.frankgroup.com/de/impressum/