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Azure Cloud Architect

Ascendo
Waukesha, WI Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/22/2025

Overview

You will be part of a talented team of engineers that support client and internal IT infrastructure, promoting end to end ownership of infrastructure solutions, assessments, and recommendations, delivering mission critical infrastructure, and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security. Qualified cloud architects will have an extensive background in IT infrastructure and a proven record of high-level engineering experience.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Serve as subject matter expert in multiple Microsoft and Linux technologies, including Azure, M365, Active Directory, ADFS, DNS, Clustering, etc.
  • Responsible for the design and build of resources on premise and in a cloud hosted infrastructure including servers, networks, storage, disks, etc.
  • Initiate and support the development of activities and technologies aimed at improving our security posture
  • Create conceptual, logical, and physical architectural diagrams representing IT systems
  • Recommend infrastructure improvements for business continuity and disaster recovery
  • Interface with all levels of client IT and business personnel
  • Create, update, and curate IT Operations runbooks
  • Provide engineering support for Incident Management
  • Perform on-call duties as needed to support client technology services
  • Ensure ongoing documentation of all supported systems and processes

Desired Experience

  • Strong hands-on technology professional with relevant and recent experience on consoles
  • Experience with variety of infrastructure solutions; conversant across technology landscape
  • Cloud / Infrastructure / M365 migrations
  • Building and supporting VDI
  • Consulting or Sales Engineering
  • Large project planning and implementation
  • Writing architecture design documents
  • Presenting to technical and nontechnical parties, including internal leadership, peers, and clients
  • Attitude of continuous learning, certifications, and professional development
  • Technical Qualifications

  • Expertise in Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google); Deep technical knowledge of Cloud networking, security, compute, storage, cost analysis, etc.
  • Expertise in VMWare, Hyper-V, or Nutanix virtualization technologies
  • Expertise in Windows and Linux server solutions
  • Extensive experience in PowerShell scripting
  • DevOps, Ansible, Python, Terraform, etc.
  • Storage Infrastructure
  • Office365, Active Directory, DNS, ADFS
  • Network Industry Certification (Cisco CCNA or CCNP) are helpful
  • Minimum Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of proven experience in IT Support, Delivery and Operations, Bachelor's Degree preferred
  • Prior experience working with a Managed Services Provider preferred
  • Superior communication skills and command of written and spoken English
  • Strong analytical skills, good balance in conceptual and pragmatic thinking
  • Excellent team player and leader with willingness to develop others for outstanding results
  • Flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
  • A broad range of technical skills with a strong desire to constantly expand skillset
  • Highly motivated, self-starter.
  • Ability to work independently and as a team without constant supervision.
  • Must be able to sit for long periods of time when required
  • This position reports directly to the Vice President of Engineering Services.
  • Ascendo is a certified minority owned staffing firm, we welcome and celebrate diversity. Ascendo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, retaliation, parental status, military service or any non-merit factor."

    Ascendo is a certified minority owned staffing firm, and we welcome and celebrate diversity. Ascendo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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