Azure Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect

Azure Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect

Department: Azure

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Dublin

Description

While this is a Hybrid role and can be partially remote there will be requirements to travel to Codec offices (Dublin, Belfast, London) and to customer sites across UK & Ireland. This will be discussed at interview stage.

Codec is an award-winning digital transformation company with big growth ambitions. Codec Ireland is delighted to announce Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) status, after passing a stringent audit process. This is a status bestowed on only 82 other organisations globally and we are the first indigenous Partner in Ireland.

We are an award-winning full-stack IT consultancy, a local alternative to the Big 4, established in 1985, headquartered in Dublin with offices in Galway, Belfast, London, Poland and Germany. Employing 300+ staff, we are growing rapidly and have crafted a clear vision of the future developing our own 'IP' to compliment the Cloud stacks from Microsoft and Oracle. We are looking to hire an Azure Architect to join our growing company.

Your role will be to provide IT consultancy to a range of clients. Based within our Cloud & Infrastructure Consultancy team, you will be working with Codec customers on the scoping, design and delivery of a variety of Azure solutions across several industry sectors. You will work in a project environment where the emphasis is on delivering first class service to our clients - The objective is to demonstrate the value of their existing and future platforms.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving aptitude and a strong understanding of the Microsoft frameworks such as the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected Framework.

Present strong leadership capabilities and proficient in both verbal and written communications.

Key Competencies

• Must have strong interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills and be able to build relationships at all levels of the organisation
• Influence, shaping solutions, negotiation and consultative skill
• Excellent project management skills including successful leadership of projects from planning phase through completion
• Be able to diagnose problems quickly and have foresight into potential issues

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Provide presales assistance where required including working on tender responses.
• Meeting with clients to architect a cloud-based solution based on their needs.
• Knowledge of how the architecture is determined will need to be demonstrated.
• Compile a high/low level design document based on the outcome of the customer meetings
• Hold workshops with customers / potential customer on various topics.
• Provide escalation point to the Service desk with more difficult issues
• Assist customers with cost management
• Work with internal teams to streamline the project deployment work by making use of deployment pipelines.

Requirements

• Azure Architecture (IaaS & PaaS)
• Azure Entra ID
• Strong knowledge on cloud-based deployments
• Azure DevOps platform
• Scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI)
• Templates (ARM/Bicep Templates, Terraform)
• Disaster Recovery / High Availability technologies
• Networking knowledge

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Knowledge of the following an advantage

• Azure AI
• Containerisation technology
• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• Strong English language
• Documentation & Communications