Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect - Infrastructure 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

405944541

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years experience working in a customer-facing role, working with executives and managing various stakeholders (e.g., internal and/or external).

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years experience leading technical projects.
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects and the ability to influence and build relationships across technical and business teams.
• Deep domain knowledge in Data Center Migration, PaaS, virtualization and VMware, Networking, identity management, Security, Storage, BCDR, Resiliency, Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), automation, Hybrid and Arc.
• Experience creating cloud adoption framework that leads to a successful customer production deployment.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
• Experience with Azure technologies and services such as Azure migrate, containers, Apps and data cross solutions with infrastructure.
• Knowledge of SRE, SDLC, DevOps and GitHub.
• Possess or ability toattaina minimum of Secret Level Security Clearance for the Canadian Federal Government.

Cloud Solution Architecture IC5- The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $121,800 - CAD $219,100 per year.

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