(Senior) Azure Cloud Architect (f/m/d)

  • Zug
  • Nordcloud, An Ibm Company

Salary 125’000 - 155’000 CHF per year


Requirements:

- - At least 3 years of practical Azure experience from successfully implemented projects and knowledge of the various Azure Platform Services
- Consulting experience with cloud services
- DevOps 'toolkit' and mindset
- Experience with infrastructure as code frameworks (e.g. Terraform, Bicep or Pulumi)
- Knowledge of container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, EKS) and/or configuration management systems (Ansible or similar).
- Experience in the administration of Windows and/or Linux servers or back-end development
- Ability to create and present solution architectures in terms of availability, performance and cost
- Good command of scripting languages (Powershell, Bash, Python...)
- 5 years of work experience in the tech industry
- Language skills in English and German (at least on a B2 level)



Responsibilities:

- As a Senior Azure Cloud Architect at Nordcloud, you will work on various customer projects, from building a new infrastructure to migrations, audits and Big Data. The daily work can include everything from implementing a configuration management infrastructure to conducting workshops and design recommendations for a technical team. You will also become a trusted advisor to well-known companies and manage the customer relationships, and roadmap together with the Nordcloud sales team.

Your daily work:
- Technical consultant for developers and Azure users
- Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure solutions and services that meet the needs of our customers
- Communication with stakeholders and participation in coordination meetings
- Creation of innovative PoC
- Automating the cloud environment with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as a Code
- Definition and implementation of security strategies
- Migration of on-premises workloads to cloud environments and modernization of old solutions to cloud-native technologies



Technologies:

- Ansible
- Architect
- Azure
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- PowerShell
- Python
- Terraform
- Windows


More:

Nordcloud, an IBM company, is a European leader in cloud advisory, implementation, application development, managed services, and training. We are triple-certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, and we are recognized as a 'Visionary' by Gartner for Public Cloud IT Services. With 10 European hubs and over 1300 employees, we are known for our innovative cloud-native solutions and we have delivered over 1000 successful cloud projects.