AZURE Cloud Architect – Digital Velocityat CDW Careers

As part of CDW’s Digital Velocity (DV) organization, Cloud Architects engage with CDW presales, clients, and internal teams to design, develop and implement automated, cloud native pattern solutions primarily to the public cloud service provider Azure. Cloud Architects design and architect cloud solutions based on Statement of Work (SoW) criteria and as needed, also provide cloud engineering of designed solutions. This role is expected to have thought leadership as well as deep technical knowledge in core areas pertaining Azure and cloud native automation and DevOps solutions. 

Key areas of responsibility

• Provide Professional Services Delivery within CDW’s DV organization with expertise in MS Azure 
• Billable consultant providing Azure architecture, cloud native pattern design and cloud engineering solutions to DV clients
• Partnering with the DV Pre-Sales Team, translate client needs and vision outlined within SoWs into workable best practice solutions
• Cloud architectural design, presentation and implementation lead (e.g. hub-spoke models) to support cloud native automation solutions at scale
• Hybrid of technical leadership and engineering delivery of cloud automation solutions including, but not limited to; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes / AKS, Containers, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Component specific design and implementation consulting services around Azure’s core resources, cloud networking, IAM, etc.
• Creation and delivery of as needed workshops, knowledge transfer sessions etc. to clients in order to ensure solution adoption and permanence
• Training, mentoring and code / work review of cloud engineer team members as necessary
• Operate as part of a team leveraging agile and scrum methodologies
• Meet training and certification requirements for applicable technologies (MS Azure, HashiCorp, CKA, etc.)
• Travel estimate up to 15%
• Internal projects when applicable

Education and/or Experience qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of Providing Technical Guidance to other Engineers
• 5+ years of experience in design and implementation of architecture and automated private/public cloud solutions
• Knowledge and skill level in identified competencies meet minimum requirements for role
• Previous direct customer consulting experience or equivalent understanding of role responsibilities

Required qualifications

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Azure
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Azure cloud platform and awareness of multi-cloud solutions and capabilities
• Experience with end-to-end scalable Azure architecture design and solution implementation for organizations of varying size
• Experience designing and implementing solutions with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent IaC automation tools and technologies
• Working knowledge of Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates) and how organizations leverage them
• Working knowledge of various on-premise and cloud connectivity (e.g. ExpressRoute) options through to cloud network security groups and routing
• Experience deploying and managing Azure tenants, subscriptions, resources, resource groups, NSG, etc.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and containers
• Design and implementation experience of container solutions including orchestration with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes cluster design and implementation
• Experience working with Azure DevOps including Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, and Azure Repos
• Working knowledge of GitHub and/or GitLab
• Experience developing workshop and presentation content with slides, artifacts, etc. and presenting technical solutions to audiences of varying technical knowledge
• Experience working as a team member within an agile environment
• Demonstrated ability to speak to business value of public cloud solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as role must be able to conduct client facing conversations to drive success in consulting engagements
• Demonstrate solid interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with delivery engineering teams
• Ability to create diagrams or visuals that represent proposed architectures using standard diagraming tools (MS Visio, PowerPoint, Lucidchart, Draw.io, etc.)
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology
• Ability to take on multiple assigned tasks, organize, and prioritize

Preferred qualifications

• Desired Certifications: Azure DevOps Engineer, Azure Solution Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Additional technology areas and experience: Linux, PowerShell, BASH Scripting, Cloud platform specific automation tooling, additional scripting languages, additional software development languages, data experience, networking experience
• Experience working as a consultant within professional services