Principal Azure Technical Consultant, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, at the highest quality standards while exceeding client expectations. 
• Design and implement complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients.    
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, drive business growth, and identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling 
• Develop high quality deliverables and presentations for Client engineering teams and senior leaders, this can include both technical documentation and non-technical documentation.  
• Collaborate with clients to understand their technical challenges and develop tailored solutions to address their needs 
• Create and present solution designs, options, ideas, and innovations to clients’ senior leadership teams.  
• Develop and maintainTechnical Roadmaps and Innovation Plans.  
• Develop and implement CI\CD solutions.  
• Establish project estimates and plans, identify risks and mitigations, oversee development and delivery of technical solutions.  
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to team members, empowering them to grow and excel in their roles. 
• Actively lead collaboration within our technical communities 

Qualifications

• Experience and ability to “jump on a whiteboard” in front of a customer to develop a solution to a business / technology goal or challenge. 
• Strong consulting and business acumen 
• 10+ years of IT experience and 5+ years of Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Application Modernization, Digital Transformation experience. 
• Multiple certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS DevOps Engineer Pro, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, Etc. 
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Platform core services around Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Containers, Security, Identity, etc. 
•  Experience with organizational adoption of transformational initiatives – Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Transformation, Application Modernization 
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM, CloudFormation 
• Experience with using and managing deployment services such as Harness, GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, etc. Knowledge and usage of branching strategies is required. 
• Hands-on experience in programming with Java, Python or any development language. 
• Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Knowledge of modern cloud-native application design principles, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI\CD Pipelines,  
• Knowledge of enterprise organizations across multiple industries and inner IT functions (e.g. Enterprise Architecture, Operations)