Azure Cloud Solution Architect (10-15 yrs)

Description

About Company

Agilysys is well known for its long heritage of hospitality-focused technology innovation. The Company delivers modular and integrated software solutions and expertise to businesses seeking to maximize Return on Experience (ROE) through hospitality encounters that are both personal and profitable. Over time, customers achieve High Return Hospitality by consistently delighting guests, retaining staff and growing margins. Customers around the world include branded and independent hotels; multi-amenity resort properties; casinos; property, hotel and resort management companies; cruise lines; corporate dining providers; higher education campus dining providers; food service management companies; hospitals; lifestyle communities; senior living facilities; stadiums; and theme parks. The Agilysys Hospitality Cloud™ combines core operational systems for property management (PMS), point-of-sale (POS) and Inventory and Procurement (I&P) with Experience Enhancers™ that meaningfully improve interactions for guests and for employees across dimensions such as digital access, mobile convenience, self-service control, personal choice, payment options, service coverage and real-time insights to improve decisions. Core solutions and Experience Enhancers are selectively combined in Hospitality Solution Studios™ tailored to specific hospitality settings and business needs. Agilysys operates across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and India with headquarters located in Alpharetta, GA. For more information visit Agilysys.com.

 Mode: Work from Office 

Essential Functions

• Maintaining 300-400 level depth in core Azure Services (Compute, Networking, and Storage) and understanding current market trends and competitive insights
• Serving as a trusted advisor to internal customers
• Developing Azure technical/operational readiness plans
• Executing rapid technical feasibility studies for moving identified workloads to Azure
• Defining and building technical documentation for security architectures, configuration management definitions, and operational readiness plans
• Architect and validate designs for disaster recovery, high availability, security and site reliability.
• Selecting a migration approach to move workloads to Azure or architecting a greenfield development or production platform for new applications
• Facilitate service rationalization and cost rationalization for cloud services based on requirements from the business and development community that aligns with operational readiness
• Driving on boarding plans in conjunction with internal customers
• Experience in customer-facing roles and have demonstrated success leading technical and economic value discussions with senior executives to drive key decisions and implementation
• The ability to impact and influence internal customers and other business partners with a high degree of autonomy, energy, enthusiasm, flexibility, and the drive to create real and measurable business results as evidenced by deploying Cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies (including Microsoft Windows, Linux and open source platforms), business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Significant depth of technical experience in any of the following Azure services and technologies:

• Azure Resource Manager APIs and Deployment Methodologies
• Azure Application Services and Micro Services Patterns
• Azure Compute
• Azure Storage
• Azure Networking
• Azure Security and Identity
• Azure Backup and Recovery
• Azure Container Services
• Azure Data Platform
• Azure Automation and Log Analytics
• Azure Webapps and Kubernetes service
• Azure application Gateway
• Azure front door
• Azure Log Analytics workspace

• Demonstrated skill building deep technical relationships with executives and technical leads within customer organization.
• Expertise in diagnose the issues with Azure Webapp deployments Linux and Windows
• Expertise in AKS cluster setup and configuration with HA and DR

• Expertise in setup and configuration of CI/CD pipelines for Azure Webapps using Azure DevOPs.
• Able to set and lead the technical vision while balancing business drivers and imperatives to help partners build profitable Azure/cloud businesses
• Ability to build technical and business credibility with senior executives and grow mind share with highly strategic internal customers and partners
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and collaboration abilities in addition to technical depth
• 5+ years design, implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications demonstrating strong architectural skills to ensure availability, reliability, etc.
•  5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects
• Project experience leveraging Waterfall, Agile with SCRUM, and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following environments: PowerShell, JSON
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both small and large audiences
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic changing environment
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
• Demonstrate technical thought leadership in customer-facing situations