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The Verizon Cloud Security Architecture team is looking for an experienced and high-performing Azure cloud security architect. The Cloud Architect plays a critical role in defining security controls and developing security solutions to protect Verizon. We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect that will help grow our cloud capabilities by strategizing, defining, architecting, and leading modern cloud solutions. This individual will be a tenacious thought leader able to scope projects, ensure delivery, and establish and maintain strong relationships with all the stakeholders at Verizon.

We are looking for an experienced hands-on Azure Cloud Architect to make intuitive high-level decisions to improve the business experience. You will see the “big picture” and create architectural approaches for automation design and implementation. You will be responsible for the technical direction of projects, working with the Verizon security team to enable new Azure services and meet Verizon security guidelines.

• Design and develop security controls to protect Verizon assets, data and applications in the Azure cloud
• Analyze cloud threats & risks and develop security solutions using the NIST framework
• Define technical direction and roadmap for Cloud migrations and manage the implementation and technical solutions.
• Develop and coordinate cloud architecture across diverse areas including application development, identity and access management, network and data management, and security.
• Architect cloud-native, hybrid, or multi-cloud solutions to meet the client’s needs.
• Own the content and lead workshops on technical topics with the client.
• Develop architectural artifacts to lead the delivery of a successful implementation.
• Engage with technical stakeholders of the client and third parties to understand how their systems work.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to technical team members.
• Collaborating with Security, Governance, Cloud engineering groups, and development teams to implement solutions across various lines of business.
• Provide technical leadership to evolve, mature, and migrate On-Prem apps to Cloud.
• Will be responsible for accurate communication of the status of ongoing work to stakeholders, including project management and senior managers.
• Oversee the progress of the various product teams to ensure alignment with the organizational cloud strategy.
• Owning the ongoing design, implementation, and management of the Azure environment, testing, and implementation of new services as they become available in the Azure environment.
• Create documentation to aid in knowledge management efforts within cloud services and provide training.
• Documenting and creating playbooks for administrative/support actions to be used by Production Support.
• Represent Verizon’s brand at technical conferences by providing presentations, and lectures and participating in group discussions.
• Identify and present best practices and recommendations for cost optimization/cloud efficiency across the Azure cloud platform to the business.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Certified with Azure fundamentals and/or Azure Administrator
• Experience in System Administration, Software development, Design Architecture, and/or implementation experience.
• Experience with standard and assured workload Azure project orchestration/creation.
• Experience of core Azure Services (e.g., IAM & Admin, Encryption Keys, Logging, Monitoring,).
• Experience indifferent programming languages e.g. scripting using Python or bash, to automate the build, test, package & deployment of function(s) and configuration.
• Experience in Terraform, Cloudformation, and ARM templates.
• Even better if you have one or more of the following:
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer science, Math or related field.
• Exposure to networking elements like VPC, Firewall Rules, Subnets, and Availability Zone.
• Exposure to application Migration and hybrid cloud environments.
• Solid experience with Data Migration and Backup Solutions.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks and services in Public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, OCI, and Azure.
• Hands-on experience of IAC tools like CloudFormation/Terraform, with proficiency in automation using Python, Boto3, Unix Shell, and other scripting languages Python and Jenkins to automate the build, test, package & deployment of function(s) & configuration. Strong hands-on knowledge of Aor MasterWS Lambda Functions.
• Experience with modern source control repositories (e.g., Git). CI/CD expertise with DevOps toolsets (Jenkins / Ansible). Experience with Jenkins pipelines, Jenkins job creations, and configuration. Proficient in writing Ansible Playbooks for configuring the cloud environment and deploying middleware and application packages.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Linux and Windows System Administration experience.
• Migrating Complex projects from on-prem to Cloud which includes Web/Apps tiers as well as database transformation.
• Implemented Enterprise Security remediation process in Cloud.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting as well as partnering with vendors and other organizations to drive root cause analysis and solve complex technical problems.
• Infrastructure expertise in computer and database design for high availability and disaster recovery, monitoring, cloud efficiency, rightsizing, and patching.
• Understanding of networking (e.g., DNS services, TCP, load-balancers, routing, firewalls) to be leveraged for designs and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, load balancers, hypervisor, storage, monitoring, security) and experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• Experience with security best practices and use of firewalls, encryption, incident response, encryption at REST & In-Transit Encryption, SSL Cert configuration at the Load balancer or server level.
• Experience with SQL tables, queries, procedures, and functions.
• Experience in creating automated processes using well-known languages and frameworks (e.g., PowerShell, python, YML, Json, Ansible, Jenkins pipeline).

With Regards, 

Abhinav Pratap

Talent Acquisition Specialist

PRO IT, Inc. 

Phone: (636)-369-5091 

E-Mail: [email protected]  

www.proit-inc.com

16305 Swingley Ridge Rd Ste 460 Chesterfield MO – 63017

To ensure seamless communication in case I am unavailable or there is a delayed response on my end.

Feel free to reach out to my manager, Abhimanyu Chaturvedi.

You can reach Abhimanyu via email at [email protected] or by phone at 636-369-5093 or 218-212-2286

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