Azure Principal Cloud Architect

Azure Principal Cloud Architect

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Prestigious Fortune 500 Company is currently seeking an Azure Principal Cloud Architect. Candidates primary focus is to design and manage a secure public cloud foundation. Working with our technical delivery teams and other platform engineering groups, you ll design architectures and service specific controls that enable our application teams to safely use cloud services to deliver world class applications to customers.

• Design, document, and present the cloud product to teams moving to cloud
• Work with Cloud Security Architects and Engineers to ensure public cloud is secure and up to security standards
• Work with Cloud Engineers to design and build a cloud foundation that technical delivery teams can build on top of
• Lead the design and implementation of key areas related to cloud including IAM, Hybrid DNS, audit logging, network topology and more
• Partner with technical delivery teams to define secure configurations of common cloud services
• Define and implement policies using various cloud posture management security tools
• Coach and mentor technical colleagues on best practices in the public cloud
• Design and lead the building of various tools/automation to streamline existing processes and enabling self service
• Assist in the remediation of identified security findings
• Assist cloud operations staff with troubleshooting and operations escalations
• Work with other IT, Security, and Business Unit teams to deliver a world class public cloud platform

• 8+ years of experience as a technical architect
• 5+ years of recent hands-on experience working with cloud technologies, specifically Microsoft Azure
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or demonstratable equivalency
• Experience building cloud solutions through the console and using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
• Solid understanding of basic internet principles such as HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, Networking, Load Balancing, etc
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python is a plus
• Experience with containers and/or container orchestration such as Kubernetes is a plus