Job title: Azure Cloud Architect Location: Remote in LATAM
Time Zone: USA – EST/CST
Duration: 12 months
**************** Must be able to speak and communicate effectively in English
Key responsibilities
Act in a consultative role for the IT Datacenter and Cloud Team, working directly with markets and technical counterparts to identify specific requirements and design custom solutions within the IT Service Offering Portfolio to meet functional requirements.
Drives platform innovation and exploit automation
Have a mindset of continuous innovation, continuous learning and improving
Drive upgrades, improvement initiatives and innovation proposals for the IT Platforms area
Coordinate the delivery of the designed and purchased solution to markets ensuring those meet Digital Asset Hosting standards and transition of the solution to sustain and operational teams
Support the markets in designing solutions from IT suppliers in a managed competition environment following latest technology trends, RFQ/RFP process in the best interest of the company
Defines Operational requirements and gaps for new and existing solutions.
Collaborate with project managements in the infrastructure area, and the suppliers as IT teams to eliminate root causes/escalations
Required Profile
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience
At least 5 years of demonstrable experience in architecture for large scale enterprise solutions, working with IT Operations, Infrastructure Architecture, or Cloud Computing required
At least 3 years of demonstrable experience with cloud architecture, specifically in Azure who can conceptualize ideas, evaluating options, presenting solutions, and implementing the selected approach
Experience in architecting Hosting infrastructure to include Enterprise Networking, Servers, Firewalls, Load Balancers, IP Connectivity and SAN Storage
Experience in Azure in terms of configuration, sizing, performance etc. Cloud certifications highly desirable
PaaS, Docker, Kubernetes and Serverless experience