Azure Cloud architect – Axelon Services

Title of the Job: Azure Cloud architect

Location: Montreal, QC

Job Description: Job Title : Azure Cloud architect
Location: Montreal (office attendance from Day 1- 3 x per week)
12 Months ContractPosition Description:
We are looking for an Azure Cloud architect who will contribute to creating our technology vision and work closely with software delivery teams to execute that vision. You will be a subject matter expert for 5-10 projects, all using a similar vision, rather than deeply embedded with a single team.Responsibilities:
-Responsible for developing cloud architecture patterns for Azure and submitting to the divisional Architecture repository.
-Educating project teams on the Azure technology options, benefits, costs etc.
-Working with central centers of excellence (Cloud, Data, Security etc) to develop best practice and blueprints.
-Client and incorporate new Azure or Open-Source technology choices into our Cloud Service Catalogue.
-Documentation of Cloud architectures and Architecture Decision Records.
-Weekly coordination with the Cloud Project team to qualify new requests.Required Skills:
-10+ years of experience architecting reporting, trading or client facing solutions, ideally within Financial Services or similar industry.
-Deep expertise in the Azure technologies: how they have evolved over time and will continue to evolve in the future.
-Excellent communication skills.
-Solid understanding (ideally hands-on experience) with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, especially in the context of Azure.
-Deep expertise in architecting for resiliency: availability zones, regions, data replication.
-Understanding of Architecture methodology (either from a consulting organization or from within a team that follows a structured Architecture process).Nice to have:
-Experience working with Kubernetes (Azure (AKS) or similar).
-Experience working with Kafka and/or Event Bus type architectures.
-Experience working with Snowflake or other Cloud based Data Platforms.
-Experience coding with Java Spring.
-Experience of building cost models and proactively exploring opportunities to reduce cost in Cloud (Serverless vs Always On, different service tiers etc).

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