Job Description

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The Cloud Architect specialism within our IT architecture team is pivotal in steering our organisation's cloud computing strategy. This role demands a deep understanding of cloud services, primarily focusing on Microsoft Azure. The candidate will need to lead the design, implementation, and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring it meets our business objectives and compliance standards.
*Description for Internal Candidates
1.1 Essential

• 6+ years of relavent experience working on Azure cloud platform

• Production experience of containers and container orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes/Helm/FluxCD)

• Experience in working with enterprise scale applications, API Gateways, high availability architectures, load balancing & disaster recovery

• Knowledge of application and cloud security fundamentals

• Experience of setting up CI/CD pipelines including production deployments using Azure DevOps

• Solid troubleshooting skills

• Experience building and working with logging and metrics solutions using Azure Monitor, Dashboards, Workbooks etc.

• Provisioning/ Enablement/ Support to various Azure Services covering Compute, Storage, Networks, Integration services

• Experience on IaC Automation using Terraform and PowerShell

• Knowledge of testing pyramids and their application to modern application architectures (microservices/SPAs)

• Knowledge of modern infrastructure practices

• Demonstrable experience of debugging applications in at least one major language (e.g. Java/Python/NodeJS/Go)

• Knowledge of at least one package/dependency management system (e.g. Maven/Gradle/NPM/Composer/Yarn)

• In depth experience of Git including development and feature based workflows and at least one Git solution (e.g. Github/Gitlab/Gerrit/Bitbucket)

• Experience on ITSM processes

1.2 Desirable

• Previous development/ Application Support experience

1.3 Education and Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, with qualification in an IT, engineering or scientific discipline, desired

Skills Required