AZURE Solutions Architect

at Africashore
Location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Date Posted November 26, 2022
Category IT / Information Technology
Job Type Freelance
Currency TZS

Description

Company Description

AFRICASHORE is an IT offshoring platform connecting IT experts and freelancers based in Africa to companies in Africa, Europe, USA, Canada and UAE remotely. Our partners, IT services companies and large groups, trust us to find them the best offshore Africa-based IT freelance consultants.

Our IT offshoring platform is present in 37 countries in Africa with a database of 230,000+ IT experts and freelancers classified into 303 IT specialties around 9 IT fields: Database Administration and NoSQL - Network and Telecom Security - ERP and Integrated Management Software - Big Data, Data Science and Business Intelligence (BI) - Programming, Development - IT Project Management - Consulting, Audit, Coaching and Training - Digital Marketing, SEO, Design and Multimedia - Production, Operations and Support.

Mission:

  • Serve as in-house technical expert providing technical guidance on new features & functionalities, drive the deployment of the customers workloads into Azure and provide deployment guidance.
  • Deliver Cloud platform architecture documents detailing the vision for how Azure infrastructure and platform services support the overall application architecture.
  • Proven background in the design and implementation of large scale, global, complex custom application development systems (e.g., high transaction volumes).
  • Experience problem solving issues on globally distributed systems and critical product service environments.
  • Create solutions that support a DevOps approach for delivery and operations of services.
  • Drive the deployment of customers workloads into Azure and provide deployment guidance.
  • Creation of standard templates for faster implementation & migration.
  • Capable of technical deep dives into infrastructure, databases, and applications as needed, yet cognitively agile enough to have strategy discussions with leadership.
Required profile for job ad : AZURE Solutions Architect (M/F)

  • Bachelors degree in Cloud Computing or related.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience on Azure Architecture having expertise in solutioning, deploying and managing Azure IaaS & PaaS Services.
  • Experience in Data & Storage (SQL Database, Redis Cache, Cosmos and Storage: Blobs, Tables, Queues, Files and Disks).
  • Experience in Azure Networking services (VNETs, Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, Application Gateway).
  • Identity & Access Management (Azure AD suite of services).
  • Knowledge in Azure ARM and Azure Power Shell scripting for automation.
  • Knowledge of best practices for IT operations in an always-on, always-available service model for e.g. Azure Site recovery, Backup, Monitoring & Maintenance.
  • Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) application to Platform as a Service (PaaS).
  • Create solutions that support a DevOps approach for delivery and operations of services.
  • Drive the deployment of customers workloads into Azure and provide deployment guidance.
  • Creation of standard templates for faster implementation & migration.

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