[Remote] Senior Azure Engineer (Austin, TX)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quisitive is a global Microsoft services and solutions partner, recognized for delivering award-winning Microsoft solutions. They are seeking a Senior Azure Engineer to lead strategic accounts and design, implement, and operate cloud solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, compliance, reliability, security, and performance. Responsibilities • Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships • Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client’s Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics • Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Cloud Adoption, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Compliance, and Security • Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads • Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements • Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts • Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies • Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation • Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle • Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers • Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams • Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants • Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience • Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives Skills • Heavy involvement with customer architecture including the following: • Engage directly with customers at the Director/CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships • Working with Quisitive AMS Ops team and Client's Ops Support team(s) to achieve defined objectives and metrics • Define architectural and operational roadmaps including Cloud Adoption, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Compliance, and Security • Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform, their cloud adoption position, and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads • Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements • Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts • Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies • Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation • Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle • Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers • Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams • Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants • Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience • Assist with day to day operations as well as larger initiatives • Deep Understanding of Azure Infrastructure as a Service – Compute, Storage, Network, Data, Firewall • Deep Understanding of Azure Policy • Deep Understanding of Microsoft Defender for Cloud • Deep Understanding of Log Analytics/Azure Monitor • Deep Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID • Overall understanding of key concepts of Azure • Overall understanding of Identity and access management • Overall understanding of Security and Compliance • Overall understanding of Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Synapse • Required: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate. A willingness to obtain these in the first month will be accepted • Platform as a Service – Databrick, Fabric • Infrastructure as Code – Bicep, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure Custom Policies • Azure DevOps • Familiarity with ITIL framework and ITSM toolsets • Experience with IT Consulting • Experience with large IT operations • Nice to have: Microsoft Certified – Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Company Overview • Microsoft technology consulting. AI, cloud innovation, data and analytics, application development, cybersecurity & managed IT services. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job