Azure Solutions Architect

<strong>Retail Business Services currently provides services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop &amp; Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the scale of the local brands to drive synergies and provide industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued.</strong>

Carlisle, PA

Retail Business Services

<strong>Retail Business Services currently provides services to five omnichannel grocery brands, including Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop &amp; Shop. Retail Business Services leverages the scale of the local brands to drive synergies and provide industry-leading expertise, insights and analytics to local brands to support their strategies. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we foster a community of belonging where everyone is valued.<br /></strong> https://www.retailbusinessservices.com/

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Full Time - Hybrid

Overview: <p>Cloud Platform Solution Architect will serve as a thought leader, work&nbsp;with a team of individuals who are committed to define technical strategy, solution architecture, design and delivering end-to-end cloud platform needs to support product development teams and platform reliability engineering teams.</p> <p>You&rsquo;ll demonstrate strong technical competence and business acumen through engaging in technology decision-making discussions related to agility and business value surrounding the Azure Cloud platform.</p>
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Owns cloud architecture solutions and partners with Domain Architect and IT Leadership to advance the cloud strategy.</li> <li>Partners with Cloud Platform Leader to provide consistent input to the technology roadmap.</li> <li>Evangelize &amp; implement Azure Cloud services and lead building cloud-native services and solutions.</li> <li>Gather requirements for all aspects of Cloud delivery, propose solutions and document.</li> <li>Create, document reference architecture, high-level &amp; low-level designs, and design decisions.</li> <li>Conduct workshops, forums, training and contribute to cloud development and delivery.</li> <li>Collaborate with Enterprise architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams.</li> <li>Technical alignment of Global/Regional/Local configuration and deployment architectures.</li> <li>Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team.</li> <li>Maintain quality documentation for enterprise-wide solutions, standards, and best practices.</li> <li>Establishes architecture framework for cloud-based delivery that enables CI/CD, cloud native development, and integration with cloud providers.</li> <li>Aligns cloud security to the overall enterprise architecture and security footprint.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p><strong>Technical skills/Product knowledge:&nbsp;<br /><br /></strong></p> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture.</li> <li>Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions.</li> <li>Experience with assessments of application portfolio and migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, azcli, GitHub.</li> <li>Design, configuration, and maintenance of Kubernetes environments using AKS.</li> <li>Domain expertise of Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and N0-SQL DB&rsquo;s, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity.</li> <li>Knowledge of Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM).</li> <li>Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g., horizontal &amp; vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security and privacy).</li> <li>Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other nonfunctional systems requirements.</li> <li>Self-Organizer, good negotiator, stakeholder management and manages opposing viewpoints.</li> <li>Strong communication skills &ndash; the willingness to engage discourse, ability to &ldquo;make the case&rdquo; and understand various tradeoffs in architectural discovery engineering.</li> </ul> <br /> <p><strong>Knowledge and education:&nbsp;<br /><br /></strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.</li> <li>5+ years of experience designing and planning Azure environments in enterprise environments including application dependencies, client presentation mechanisms, network connectivity and overall cloud strategies.</li> <li>3+ years of experience of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON, PowerShell, GitHub, etc.).</li> <li>10+ years of overall IT experience focused on infrastructure or software development.</li> <li>Certified Azure Solutions Architect required; Certified Azure DevOps preferred.</li> </ul>