Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Job Title: Certified Hands-on Azure Architect
About the Role: We are seeking an experienced, certified Azure Architect with extensive hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes, as well as a proven track record of successfully migrating 100+ applications to Azure. The candidate will play a pivotal role in architecting scalable, high-performance solutions while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver top-tier infrastructure and cloud-native applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Architecture & Design: Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and cost-effective Azure-based architectures for both new and existing systems.
- Migration Leadership: Drive end-to-end migration of large-scale enterprise applications (100+ apps) from on-premises or other cloud platforms to Microsoft Azure, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum performance.
- Kubernetes & Istio Management: Design and implement Kubernetes clusters (AKS, openshift) for microservices architectures, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across environments.
- Automation & CI/CD: Develop and automate deployment pipelines using Github actions or Gitlab, and other cloud-native tools to streamline infrastructure and application delivery.
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Work closely with DevOps, development, and operations teams to ensure the best practices are followed for cloud architecture, containerization, and orchestration. Mentor junior architects and engineers in cloud-native technologies. Mentor Operations in managing production environments in Azure.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously evaluate and optimize the performance, security, and scalability of the Azure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and Istio service meshes.
- Technical Leadership: Provide architectural guidance, conduct code and architecture reviews, and help to establish best practices across the organization.
Required Qualifications:
- Azure Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent certification.
- Hands-on Experience: 5+ years of experience architecting, deploying, and managing Azure-based cloud infrastructures and applications using Terraform scripting and infrastructure as code ( IaC )
- Azure Services: Expertise in azure networking, security, storage and compute services.
- Kubernetes Expertise: Proven experience managing production-level Kubernetes clusters in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or other cloud environments.
- Migration Experience: Demonstrated experience successfully migrating 100+ applications to the cloud, with a focus on application re-platforming, refactoring, and lift-and-shift strategies.
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Expertise in using Terraform templates, for automating infrastructure provisioning.
- CI/CD Tools: Proficiency with Github Actions, Gitlab, Harness, Helm, and other relevant tools for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications.
- Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting skills (Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.) to automate cloud operations and processes.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to identify and resolve complex cloud architecture and migration issues.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Azure cloud platform (AWS / GCP will be a Plus )
- Familiarity with container orchestration beyond Kubernetes, including Docker Swarm or OpenShift.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices and tools for securing cloud-native applications.
- Experience developing distributed enterprise applications on the cloud using Java or Python
- Knowledge of Istio or any service mesh
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Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale.
Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise.
Our business has more than tripled over the last three years.
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