Must be local to Lansing, Michigan for on-site interviews and on-site work requirements. No remote option. 4 days working onsite required. W2 Only (Direct / 1-layer visa). Please No C2C or 3rd party submissions.
Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Architect to strategize, design, implement and maintain solutions primarily with Microsoft Azure. In addition, AWS and Google cloud experience will be a big plus.
The Cloud Architect’s responsibilities include overseeing the cloud computing strategy of our organization, including cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.
Our ideal candidates are familiar with the infrastructure and application architecture and have hands-on experience leading the design and deployment of enterprise-scale Azure solutions. In addition, experience with AWS and Google cloud services will be additional plus for this position.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on Azure, AWS and Google.
- Identifying appropriate use of Azure operational best practices and architectural design patterns.
- Conducting systems plan studies and system modeling, performance, and capacity analysis.
- Estimating cost and identifying cost control mechanisms for Azure cloud-based resources.
- Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on Azure.
- Implementing and controlling the flow of data to and from Azure.
- Selecting the appropriate Azure service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.
- Integrating Azure services with on-premises networks, as required.
- Maintaining knowledge of the latest Azure updates and improvements to provide optimal solutions.
- Providing expertise and architectural assistance to other IT personnel, including software developers and systems engineers.
- Designing and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity strategies on Azure cloud.
- Implementing Azure security and compliance measures
Minimum Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role.
- Experience with Azure and other cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- Understanding of network operations, software development, and information security.
- Proficient in cloud ecosystems, APIs, and frameworks.
- Experience with coding languages like Python, Java, or .NET.
- Strong technical cloud skills and experience in cloud adoption projects.
- Ability to design and deploy enterprise-scale Azure solutions.
- Familiarity with infrastructure and application architecture
- Proficient with various configuration tool and approach with Infrastructure as code (IAC) for automations
Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or in a similar role
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud
- Understanding of network operations, software development, and information security
- Proficiency in cloud ecosystems, APIs, and frameworks
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, or .NET
- Strong technical cloud skills and experience with cloud adoption projects
- Ability to design and deploy enterprise-scale Azure solutions
- Familiarity with infrastructure and application architecture
- Proficiency with configuration tools and Infrastructure as Code automation approaches
- Local to Lansing, Michigan and available for onsite interviews and onsite work four days per week
- W2 employment; no C2C or third-party submissions
What We Do
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Lansing, Dewpoint has a long success record of helping to develop short- or long-term strategic technology plans to maximize current resources and better position organizations across numerous industries for the future. Its service-based solutions focus on helping clients transform and optimize IT support via strategic assessments, portfolio, program and project management, managed services, infrastructure optimization and applications development and maintenance. With particular expertise around the data center, Dewpoint also architects and supports its clients’ strategic initiatives such as data backup and recovery, data storage, virtualized environments, database services, performance improvement and overall architectural design and implementation. Dewpoint supports clients primarily in the Midwest and across the country.
