Senior Azure Cloud Architect

at  Orbis Investment Management Limited

SENIOR AZURE CLOUD ARCHITECT – MUNICH + EXPOSURE TO WIDER CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES + RETIREMENT PROVISION, EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT, AND TEAM BUILDING

This company who are a leading Specialist IT organisation are currently seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to join their team to work on some exciting Digital Transformation projects.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Cloud Architect to gain valuable experience and take a huge step forward in their career.
This company is a highly respected IT organisation who focus on digital transformation and state-of-the-art production methods. They take pride in their investment in people, and a Cloud Architect would be valued and rewarded by a company that is committed to looking after its staff.

IDEAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SENIOR AZURE CLOUD ARCHITECT VACANCY:

• Your background: Several years of professional experience as a cloud architect or comparable role, ideally with experience in providing data products.
• Your technical skills: You have knowledge of cloud platforms, especially data platforms on Azure, and understand the basics of cloud services, networking and security.
• You are experienced in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, are familiar with DevOps and CI/CD concepts and have gained experience in the area of modern data warehouses, lakehouse architectures and big data including migration strategies.
• As a plus: knowledge of Databricks/Spark, modeling methods such as Snowflake or Data Vault.
• How you work: You enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team with experienced colleagues from business and technology. You also enjoy communicating directly with customers.
• Your passion: You make data-driven decisions to have a meaningful impact on the business. You pay attention to code quality, simplicity and performance.
• Your language skills: You are fluent in spoken and written English (C1) and German (C1).

• Conception, implementation and optimization of the cloud application portfolio with a focus on Microsoft Stack in a data-oriented product environment.
• Implementation of cloud solutions and ensuring use cases in Azure.
• Developing best practices, standards and roadmaps for the cloud environment, taking scalability, performance, security and cost into account.
• Advising customers on cloud-based solutions, conducting workshops and supporting pre-sales activities.
• Further development of the company-wide cloud strategy and close collaboration with technology experts to optimally align the cloud infrastructure with the respective company goals.
• Applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform to optimize cloud infrastructure.
• Application of DevOps and CI/CD concepts to continuously improve development processes.
• Quality assurance through code analyses and evaluations.