*Remote Contract Opportunity*

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Azure Cloud Architect position! This is a 6+ month contract opportunity and can be remote in the United States working EST hours. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

What You'll Be Doing:

•Clearly articulate and communicate complex design solutions to technical, non-technical, and leadership.

•Create detailed solution design covering n-tier deployments, auditing, availability, disaster recovery, backup.

•Work with the application, security, and infrastructure teams to create and validate solution design

•Manage the end-to-end lifecycles of a project in a solution architect capacity

•Utilize and improve design patterns using reference architectures for new applications migrating to cloud

•Assist in supporting and troubleshooting Azure cloud incidents/outages following incidents

What You'll Need to Have:

•Strong understanding across Cloud and infrastructure components (servers, Virtualization, storage, network data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs.

•Minimum 5-6 years of experience in designing, building, securing, and deploying applications and technologies to the Cloud.

•Minimum 3 years of experience migrating from on-prem Data Centers to Azure cloud and Hybrid Cloud environments.

•10 years of IT industry experience with 5+ years as Architect

Preferred Qualifications:

•Debug network flows and identify potential roadblocks where policies, accesses etc. need to be changed

•Experience with claim-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC

•Certifications e.g., Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, CISSIP, Zachman, ITIL etc.

•General awareness of DevOps techniques and methodologies

•Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.

•Hands-on experience with the following:

•Networking, vNets, peering, routing, NSGs, DNS, load balancer, firewall

•Azure Functions, Web Apps / Application Services, Application Service Environnements, Azure Event Hub

•Application Gateway, SSL Deployments, Web Application Firewalls

•Azure Virtual Machine design and deployments (Linux, Windows)

•Azure Automation, Monitor, Backup, Defender for Cloud

•Azure DevOps

•Azure RBAC, strong understanding of built-in roles

•Azure PaaS Data

Pay Range: $70-80/hr +

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