Consult with Persistent clients to build and architect new solutions, data center migrations, and scaling their adoption of Microsoft Azure.Review and evaluate architectures of existing systems and software products to identify reuse and platforming opportunities as well as refactoring opportunities.Provide technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to the teams in the implementation of established architectures and designs.Establish and enforce quality standards for cloud software architectures.Drive high priority customer initiatives on Cloud/ Datacenter in collaboration with customers and Persistent sales team.The role is a technical, customer facing role that is accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience.Own the Azure technical customer engagement including: developing the architectural design on specific implementation projects and/or Proofs of Concepts, and Cloud solution architecture components of customer facing contract bid responses.Assess Azure/ Datacenter footprint readiness for deployment activities.Deep technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security and storage.Hands-on with tools and methods in capability, business transformation delivery, sizing and estimations.Experience with Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.Experience with configuration management and automation technologies such as PowerShell DSC, Chef, ARM Templates, and Puppet is preferred.Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with one or more of the following programming languages: Net, .Net Core, Java, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails is preferred.Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure Storage, Networking and Security Solutions, ARM Templates, JSON scripting, Windows and/ or Linux administration, Azure App Services, Orchestration, Kubernetes, and Containers (Docker).Azure Cloud Native Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus and Event Grid) Azure SQL Database, Azure Web Jobs, MySQL, SQL Server, SQL Server IaaS, SharePoint on Azure, Hyper-V, VMWare, System Center, firewalls, Web App proxies, Bash, BGP, Chef, Puppet, OSS Technologies, Powershell scripting, Operations Management Suite (OMS).Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior executives and growing cloud consumption shares in large or highly strategic accounts.Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/ or services company.Experience as a team lead in consultative role on customer engagements involving software application projects.Ability to be hands-on in leadership roles as well as manage others to execute and deliver project deliverables.#