Azure Senior Solutions Architect

At Perficient you’ll deliver mission-critical technology and business solutions to Fortune 500 companies and some of the most recognized brands on the planet. And you’ll do it with cutting-edge technologies, thanks to our close partnerships with the world’s biggest vendors. Our network of offices across North America, as well as locations in India and China, will give you the opportunity to spread your wings, too. 

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Perficient is seeking an Azure Solutions Architect to lead in our growing Azure Practice. An Ideal candidate will have 10 years of experience in a hands-on, technical role. Preferably (and in addition), the candidate will have extensive experience in a customer facing role, managing customer and Practice expectations. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a consulting capacity. The candidate will work within a fast-paced team with dynamically changing requirements. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter who can “hit the ground running” and work with minimal direction.   

Position Overview: 

As an Azure Solutions Architect, you will be the subject matter expert in your target focus area and contribute to a variety of cloud engineering teams to deliver end-to-end cloud transformation for our customers, as part of our fast-growing Azure Practice. This challenging role requires significant knowledge and experience across many facets of cloud modernization including Infrastructure, Applications, APIs, Containerization, innovation with Artificial Intelligence, and Modern Data Services.  The ideal candidate possesses should be deeply familiar with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption framework and able to align & lead strategies focusing on the Governance, Security, Monitoring and Cost Management aspects of the Azure ecosystem. We are looking for disciplined consultants with deep technical backgrounds, experience building world-class cloud solutions and strong leadership skills.  

The core responsibility of this role is to provide Azure architectural vision and implementation expertise throughout the assessment, proposal, design, implementation and operational phases of a customer engagement. You will work alongside Perficient resources to serve all needs within the Microsoft Azure cloud, heavily leverage Azure native services for migration and modernization and enable open source and third-party solutions on Azure infrastructure. The role often results in the Solutions Architect becoming the trusted, technical face of the engagement; strong leadership and consulting skills are necessary. Successful candidates must be willing to multitask and understand that customer engagements will vary over time and must maintain and evolve skillsets to meet those needs. 

• Familiarity of principles summarized in the Azure Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks is desired 
• Solid experience developing infrastructure architecture, networking and security components at scale 
• Applicable knowledge of principles summarized in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework 
• Expert-level technical design and thought leadership of Azure assessment and implementation engagements 
• Lead elaboration and discovery sessions to inform solution design, migration and modernization strategy 
• Lead architecture design, infrastructure foundations, component and design thinking sessions with customers 
• Ability to produce high quality architecture diagrams and documents to communicate thoroughness of vision for system component topology, design, networking and security of proposed solutions 

• Ensure that the established process is followed on assigned projects and maintain familiarity with industry best practices including: 

• Cloud virtual network segregation and service isolation 
• Web Application Firewall configuration and implementation 
• System reliability and regional redundancy 
• Automated system auditing, logging and monitoring utilizing Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Cost Management or equivalent tooling 
• DevOps processes & strategies utilizing Azure DevOps, GitHub, ARM Templates, and Terraform 
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) design principles, methodologies and tooling options. The ideal candidate should be able to define and demonstrate BCDR for solutions on Azure  

Candidates must be an expert in one or more of the following major capability areas of Azure:

Azure Foundations & Infrastructure: 

• Preferred experien