NTT is currently seeking a Public Cloud Architect to join our CSD Managed Services Public Cloud organization.

The Public Cloud Architect will be leading technical thought leadership and delivery excellence related activities for managed services accounts. The ideal candidate has expert level knowledge and experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions and migrations. The position is customer facing and will work closely with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security team to deliver the best solution for large scale infrastructure design and application migrations. Candidates should possess expert knowledge in public and hybrid cloud models. The architect needs to have the ability to provide insight into the workloads and their dependencies to map out the best strategy to migrate workloads to Azure. This will include determining the ideal groups of applications and defining a roadmap to move to the cloud.

Responsibilities :

Subject matter expert in Public Cloud Architecture and Cloud Adoption Frameworks, as it relates to compute, network, storage, and native SaaS/PaaS offerings
Partner with sales, product, and architecture teams to create architecture roadmaps and design product and services to meet customer needs
Adopt shift-left approach in each solution
Liaise with other Architecture teams to develop solution designs and review alternative solutions for best fit
Collaborate with Product Engineering to develop tooling and infrastructure for cloud development and cloud operations use cases, with a focus on AKS/microservices deployment and distributed systems monitoring and fault analysis
Strategize with business and service lines to develop solutions based on a variety of criteria including a clear description of services, functionality, scalability, future proofing, and cost
Lead pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing and knowledge transfer; worked with engineering teams to accelerate software delivery
Implement landing zones and build public cloud infrastructure for migrations and new environments
Deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure using industry best practices
Adapt to changing priorities and thrive in very dynamic environment with multi stakeholders from multiple lines of businesses that may having competing needs; maintain deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends in cloud security. Deploy networking solutions by using the Azure Portal and other methods, including PowerShell, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI)
Assist with client pre and post-sale engagements
Assist with technical aspects of solution proposals, SOW, and estimation
Define and implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure
Work closely with the Product Engineer team to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure
Leverage DevOps best practices to deploy Infrastructure as Code
Act as technical lead for Public Cloud projects for Managed Services
Contribute to and support execution of client engagements
Acting as a point of escalation for support and troubleshooting existing environments as issues arise (connectivity or performance issues for example)

Basic Qualifications:

Expert Azure Cloud infrastructure experience
Minimum eight years of recent experience designing, implementing, and operating secure architecture and reference architectures in public cloud
Azure Certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, Solutions Architect Expert
Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills
Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Networking challenges
Must be able to effectively orchestrate and manage several dozen separate public cloud environments to a high standard of care and competence
Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders
Strong experience with adoption of CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework), adhering to principles of WAF (Well Architecture Framework) and demonstrated ability of Migrating applications to cloud using AMPP (Azure Migration Program)
Expertise in core infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, network routing and security group/firewall management; extensive working knowledge of Azure products and services
Detailed understanding of secure network and application design concepts and a demonstrated ability to integrate security tools with IT infrastructure such as proxies, mail servers, Active Directory, Identity and Access controls, workstations, and mobile devices
Strong understanding of optimization techniques to drive optimal cost structures for applications running in the Public Cloud; knowledgeable in all facets of compute, network, and storage as it relates to Public Cloud Architectures
Azure networking: Hub and spoke, Virtual WAN, SD-WAN
Experienced in container and microservices such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Automation; Infrastructure as Code; VM setup/teardown, scripting, platform tools (Azure Resource Manager), exposure to 3rd party tool like Terraform
Infrastructure as Code using tools such as but not limited to, Terraform, Git Lab
DevOps: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Pipelines, Branching, Merges, Approval gates
Logging and monitoring of cloud deployments

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a computer science or information technology, computer engineering or similar field
TOGAF or similar architecture certification preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

Understanding of other Hypervisors such as AWS, GCP, OCI
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
Terraform experience
AZ-140 preferred
AZ-400 preferred
AZ-700 preferred
Azure Solutions Architect
Ability to travel up to 25%