Lead Azure Sme

Lead Azure Solutions Architect (Azure SME)

We are a technology consulting and solutions firm with a focus on a wide range of cutting-edge technologies. Headquartered in Metro Atlanta, Georgia (US), we provide nationwide clients with top-tier talent. Our organization is a privately owned firm that was founded 10 years ago, and we are growing rapidly. The leadership team has implemented an aggressive 5-year plan. It is a great time to join our team. If you have a strong passion for AWS and are looking to join a seasoned team of IT professionals, we are seeking an Azure Architect to coach, train, and mentor our incoming classes of consultants.

This position involves overseeing, in partnership with a consultant development manager, a diverse body of IT consultants throughout their career, or lifecycle, with our company. This looks like: Training, Marketing, Project. Not only will you assist and guide onboarding consultants with their onsite *technical* TRAINING in Atlanta, but you will be preparing your consultants in effective *technical* and *actively engaging* behaviors to successfully win interviews, and finally, you will track your consultants' success on project - doing whatever it takes to ensure the consultant remains successfully working and billing on project.
- Interviewing potential consultants to ensure all onboarding employees will be successful in the Azure domain.
- Be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of our best-in-class Azure training materials.
- Training, guiding and mentoring consultants with existing basic programming and computer science skills up to junior and mid-level developers.
- Preparing mock interview situations for the consultants to enhance the esteemed learning process provided by the company.
- Acting as a primary technical support resource for individuals working on a variety of projects throughout the US (this requires ability to support remotely)
- Interacting with our Executive and Sales team to ensure that projects and employees are appropriately matched.
- Interacting with our Executive and Sales team to ensure that consultants on projects remain successfully on these projects and do not result in technical failure.
- Prepping consultants for interviews for specific assignments involving mobile development.

Desired Qualifications Include:

- 5+ Years of professional Azure and Architecture experience
- Azure Certified DevOps Engineer
- Azure Certified Solutions Architect
- Bachelor’s Degree in the Computer Science or related field
- Project Management background preferred.
- Knowledge of the Consulting/Sales structure
- Able to work full-time schedule and possibility of flexible extended hours.

Desired Skills (Including but Not Limited to):

- Experience with Azure Cloud Formation Templates
- Experience with Azure EMR & Redshift
- Experience with Hadoop eco system in Cloud (Spark, Hive and HBase etc.)
- Experience with Apache NiFi
- Knowledge with Cloud container (EKS) services (Kubemetes) is a plus.
- Cloud infrastructure configuration and optimization
- Network management and security for cloud environments (e.g., Azure)
- Automated deployments and source code/configuration management tools
- Re-architecture and design of systems to become cloud native (e.g., Azure Lambda)
- Relational Database administration using SQL and configuration knowledge for the MySQL engine.
- Dev Environment Mgmt. - Agile, Scrum, Sprints

Operating Systems/Virtualization - Windows Server 2016 R2 - 2019, CentOS, Redhat Linux, Windows 10, VMWare ESX 6, ESXi Hypervisor, Hyper-v, VMware Horizon Suite, Office 365, Docker, Kubernetes, Apple IOS, Confluence, VWorkspace, VMware Horizon View, Xenapp, VEEAM, Azure Fundamentals, RemoteApps, RDS, EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, Chime, Lambda Functions, SNS, SQS, Cognito, Auto scaling,

Project /IT Management - Microsoft Project, Leadership Training Concepts, Waterfall Model, Lean Six Sigma, IT Budgeting, Change Management, Risk Assessments, SOX IT Compliance Management, JIRA, Confluence

Security - CyberArk, Sophos, Bitdefender, Threat Analysis, AppviewX, McAfee Viruscan Enterprise, Certificate Servers, PGP, EAP, PPTP, L2TP, IPsec, Digital Signatures, PKI, MPPE, Cylance, Bluecoat, CA E-Trust, Proventia ISS, RADIUS, EAP, MD5, SSH, Sha1, Securewave Endpoint Security, ACL’s, STS, Federation, Shavlik HfNetChk, Barracuda Spam Appliance, Third Brigade, MacAfee Epolicy Administrator, Hercules, Wireshark, DISA STIG, IAM

Networking/Administration - Active Directory, Vblock, DataDog, Citrix Netscaler, VPN, LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, RAS, RRAS, OSPF, EIGRP, Thin Client Setup, Visio 2016, OPNet. VmWare VSphere, SUS, Rundeck, Bladelogic, MFA, Security Groups, DynamoDB, RDS, SharePoint Portal Server, VPC, DirectX, Nat gatew

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

**Experience**:

- Azure: 5 years (preferred)