Azure Architect
Job Title: Azure Architect
Role Type: Full Time Permanent Position
Location: Houston, TX – Hybrid 3x a week in office
We are looking for an Azure Architect for one of our premier Houston area clients! This role will be tasked with the stability, integrity, and governance of infrastructure-related cloud resources.
What you will be doing:
- Designing and implementing end-to-end solutions using Azure
- Implementing and maintaining Azure resource threat detection
- Monitoring, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity events, including intrusion detection, inappropriate file access, logins from inappropriate or multiple locations
- Acting as primary Azure infrastructure services escalation resource for all IT teams
- Developing and executing disaster recovery plans.
- VDI administration, specifically Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure SQL backup configuration and validation
- Provisioning database resources and related replication/high availability configurations
- Patch management for Windows Servers and AVD-hosted VMs
- Performing routine internal audits of the Azure environment
- Maintaining Azure resource configuration and deployment standards
- Troubleshooting cloud resource performance and connectivity issues as required
What you bring to the table:
- A bachelor’s degree in MIS, computer science, or another related field is preferred from an accredited institution
- Ten or more years of contributor experience in closely related technology roles, with a minimum of 5 years supporting a production Microsoft Azure environment at a mid-market enterprise or larger.
- A minimum of (1) active L2 or higher (MCSA/Associate) Microsoft certification in a role-relevant competency
- Ability to design, implement, and maintain complex solutions in Azure
- Base competency with Azure CLI and PowerShell
- Experience with Azure storage accounts, networking, logging, monitoring, and automation
- Base competency with Git for script management
- Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and Entra
- Ability to manage multiple subscriptions that are managed by multiple teams
- Base competency leveraging Managed Identities to secure resources in Azure
- Strong knowledge and technical expertise in cloud-centric enterprise architecture, specifically Azure, with proven experience integrating new cloud operations with traditional infrastructure and application support operations
- Experience with P2V/V2V migration in Azure
- Working knowledge of the Azure catalog of services
- Knowledge of containerization technologies a plus
- Ability to create Visio’s and diagrams of infrastructure and detailed data flow
This is a direct hire role requiring a hybrid office schedule. Salary + bonus and benefits.
**** No sponsorship available at this time ****