Cloud Solutions Architect (Remote)

MOBIZ is a technology partner in success. Whether a small business, mid-size company, or a global enterprise, we provide a broad range of technology services. We partner with business and technology stakeholders to design, manage, and support IT needs.

As a trusted partner, MOBIZ helps organizations discover and analyze IT environments; develop technology strategy & provide consulting advice; plan IT portfolio roadmap; design, develop, and deploy new functional capabilities; personalize and customize IT services; manage IT assets; and remediate IT problems.

From cloud hosted data centric technologies that leverage information technology to implement efficient, cost-effective, next generation solutions at scale to IT service management of your IT assets, MOBIZ is there to help.

We are looking to invite to our team, an experienced Cloud professional with a vision for the future of IT applications and operations, a passion for consulting, and desire to fully satisfy the client requirements. This person will be focused on designing and building complex technology solutions that help customers migrate existing capabilities and develop new capabilities in Azure.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud migration projects for large multinational clients. Analyze requirements, develop architecture / design artifacts, articulate the approach, and execute application and data migrations from on-premises data centers to Azure.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of cloud-native business solutions. Analyze requirements, develop architecture / design artifacts, articulate the approach, and implement new applications in Azure.
• Lead design and development of hybrid cloud and multi cloud solutions involving integration of Azure services with on-premises components and systems residing in other clouds.
• Create, manage, and support Azure landing zones.
• Deploy, provision, and manage multiple Azure infrastructure components including but not limited to virtual networks and subnets, virtual machines, applications, containers, serverless, storage, IAM services, virtual network appliances, VDI, logging, and monitoring.
• Deploy, provision, and manage multiple network security components including but not limited to Palo Alto VM-series firewalls, Panorama, Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud, etc.
• Manage master images and associated operating system, application, and security upgrades.
• Migrate, deploy, and provision business applications and databases.
• Automate Azure deployment, provisioning, and management tasks with CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform regular management and administration tasks for all Azure services including upgrades, patching, backup, restore, troubleshooting, and issue remediation.

Your Qualifications

• MS/BS degree in Computer Science/related field or commensurate body of previous work.
• 10+ years’ experience and professional Azure certifications (AZ 303/304).
• Demonstrated experience with analysis, architecture, design, and technical oversight of complex technology projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and prior client facing experience in a consulting environment. Ability to communicate PoV and engage client personnel at all levels of responsibility, from individual technical contributors and up to CxO level.
• Demonstrated knowledge of systems development lifecycle (SDLC) and various project execution approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in strategic planning and to develop technology roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience working with the multiple Azure services and technologies including but not limited to virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets, containers and AKS, App Service, Azure Functions, databases, Azure AD and AD DS, Azure Migrate, ASR, VPN Gateways, ExpressRoute, Load Balancers, Azure Storage, Azure Files, etc.
• Demonstrated network security experience including but not limited to deployment and management of Palo Alto virtual components in the cloud.
• Automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and/or Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Prior experience working with Azure cloud is a must; experience working with AWS or GCP is a plus.
• Must have a passion for customer success, team building, and a commitment to team success.
• Must be solution-oriented with proactive mindset.
• Must have superior attention to details.
• Must have an ability to be strategic and execute fast in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be motivated and ambitious, interested in personal growth and development.