Azure Cloud Architect

About the role

Avanade, the Accenture technology consulting practice focused on Microsoft technologies, is looking for an Azure Cloud Architect in its Infrastructure team in Lisbon. The team delivers complex, impactful projects and helps clients transform their businesses through digital innovation, working with the full breadth of the Azure platform.

Key responsibilities

• Advise clients on governance, stability and evolving business needs using technical and consulting expertise.
• Take part in designing, planning and implementing Azure solutions for customers, using IaaS and PaaS with Infrastructure as Code.
• Deploy and architect Azure solutions across subscriptions and management, networking, security, compute, storage and operations for major enterprise projects.
• Solve complex technical challenges such as cloud and on-premises infrastructure, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories and cloud technologies, using automation, scripting and DevOps.
• Communicate hard concepts clearly to clients, consultants and client teams.

Required profile

• Experience advising clients, writing high-level and detailed designs and defining architectural topologies.
• Comfortable working in large and small teams to design and implement solutions.
• Great communication and interpersonal skills.

Required skills

• Azure infrastructure technologies: Open Source on Azure, Kubernetes, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Front Door, Azure Migrate.
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Infrastructure as Code with ARM, Terraform, Bicep or YAML; scripting in PowerShell, Bash or Azure CLI.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Enterprise Scale.