<p>Passionate team members, challenging projects and a great place to work! This is what you can expect if you join the Quisitive team. Founded in 2016, Quisitive is a global Microsoft services and solutions partner. We are a team of professionals with a strong reputation for successfully delivering award-winning Microsoft solutions, including being named Microsoft's 2024 Analytics Partner of the Year. Our culture of continual learning and innovation ensures that we remain committed to Microsoft's long-term strategy.</p> <p>What do we attribute our award-winning success to? The people we hire, of course! Our team members join Quisitive for more than just a job. They come to Quisitive to contribute to something bigger than themselves - to be part of a high-performing culture, continue their infinite quest to learn, and deliver innovative and exciting solutions that impact both Quisitive's and our customers' future success. Our leaders continuously strive to provide the tools and resources that you need to do what you do best each and every day!</p> <p>It is a very exciting time of growth for our Azure Management Solutions team, and we are currently hiring an Azure Architect to drive security, cost and operational best practices for your clients.</p> <p>This role is located in Austin, TX.</p> <p>What will this role entail?</p> <p>In this senior level role, you will be part of Quisitive's growing Azure Management Solutions team. You will work with some great minds to design, implement, and operate cloud solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, compliance, reliability, and performance. You will deploy Azure based solutions and technologies across a wide range of industries. You will serve as Enterprise Architect and Cloud Ops Lead for your clients and drive security, cost, and operational best practices.</p> <p>What's required?</p> <p>Heavy involvement with customer architecture including the following:</p> <ul> <li>Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships </li><li>Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client's Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics </li><li>Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity </li><li>Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads </li><li>Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements </li><li>Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts </li><li>Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies </li><li>Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation </li><li>Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle </li><li>Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers </li><li>Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams </li><li>Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants </li><li>Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience </li><li>Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives </li></ul> <p>Required Technology Experience:</p> <p>Deep Understanding of:</p> <ul> <li>Azure Infrastructure as a Service - Compute, Storage, Network </li><li>Azure Policy </li><li>Microsoft Defender for Cloud </li><li>Log Analytics/Azure Monitor </li><li>Microsoft Entra ID </li><li>Overall understanding of key concepts of Azure </li><li>Identity and access management </li><li>Security and Compliance </li></ul> <p>Preferred:</p> <ul> <li>Platform as a Service - Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Data Factory </li><li>Infrastructure as Code - Bicep, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure Custom Policies </li><li>Azure DevOps </li><li>Familiarity with ITIL framework and ITSM toolsets </li></ul> <p>Certifications:</p> <ul> <li>Required: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate. A willingness to obtain these in the first month will be accepted. </li><li>Preferred: Microsoft Certified - Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure </li></ul> <p>We are looking for curious initiative takers to join our team, so if you are passionate about working with smart people that are committed to accomplishing great things, then apply today!</p> <p>Please, no third-party agency inquiries, and we are unable to offer visa sponsorships at this time.</p> <p>About Quisitive</p> <p>With significant growth since 2016, Quisitive is rapidly achieving our vision of becoming the leading global Microsoft partner as we continue to expand across the United States, Canada and India. With a diversified delivery model that includes both nearshore and offshore capabilities, our team of Microsoft experts delivers cloud and artificial intelligence business solutions and services that ensure our customers achieve their digital transformation goals. In addition, Quisitive offers a portfolio of industry-focused solutions that address customer challenges in healthcare, manufacturing, state & local government and performance management.</p>