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Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

Role Profile

Are you a technology leader seeking opportunities to innovate, lead business transformation, and serve your community? Neudesic is currently seeking a Principal Consultant to join our Cloud Infrastructure Services team.

Neudesic Principal Consultants on our Cloud Infrastructure Services team report to our National Director of Cloud Infrastructure. They are thought-leaders for clients, with a successful history of providing unique, well thought out architecture, design, development, and deployment solutions to complex business challenges. They are market leaders contributing to internal and external communities, growth and support of local teams. In addition, they assist regional account teams thru executive level presentations, statements of work and proposals, and exemplary delivery of solutions. They are deeply experienced with large-scale cloud infrastructure solutions, and have extensive experience in a leadership role.

The ideal Principal Consultant - CIS candidate has senior-advanced level knowledge and experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions and migrations on Cloud platforms primarily on Azure. The position is customer facing and will work closely with market leadership on both technical sales pursuits as well as technical delivery oversight. This position will work with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver the best solutions for large scale infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in public and hybrid cloud models. Consulting skills and the ability to clearly pull a desired state from a customer's requests is a required skill. The ability to work with delivery teams and support the sales process from a technical excellence position is also required.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure (AWS and GCP is a plus) using industry best practices leveraging the WAF and CAF frameworks.

• Implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.

• Design and develop automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration process.

• Work closely with the Development and Operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure.

• Understanding of Azure Database technologies (both IaaS and PaaS) and options to support the migration process. This will include and not limited to Azure database migration technologies and refactoring options.

• Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.

• Build effective monitoring, logging and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., HIPAA).

• Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure on Azure.

• Microsoft Partner Funding options management for the region.

• Work with solution offering teams that will be delivering and development of content for sales support.

• Manage and mentor group of consultants and advise on career path.

As of February 9, 2022, Neudesic has been acquired by IBM and is now being integrated into the IBM organization. As a result, your recruitment process will be managed by IBM, which will also be the hiring entity.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required technical and professional expertise

Must have ability to secure and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Key Technology Requirements:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Azure Database and storage technologies (Storage Accounts, SQL Server, CosmosDB), Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load balancer, API Gateway and Azure AD.

• Cloud Management: Policy, RBAC roles, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting, Site Recovery, Disaster Recovery

• On-premise infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, VMWare, Hyper-V, firewalls, routing

• Identity and user management solutions provided by Azure or 3rd party.

• Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Team Server (VSTS), Jenkins, Github, Octopus Deploy

• Experience with Automation scripting including PowerShell and other configuration as code tools.

• Deployment automation languages and tools such as JSON Template, Terraform, Ansible

• Experience with Azure and 3rd party monitoring tools

• Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management

• Azure WAF (Well Architected Framework) and CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) knowledgebase

Additional Skills & Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and networking roles

• Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.

• Experienced in problem solving, and able to follow a methodical implementation process.

• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities.

• Ability to communicate with clients at all levels.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Technology Plus:

• Microsoft Azure certified - specifically AZ300 and AZ301

• Hands-on Experience with Terraform

• Knowledge and/or experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lakes

• Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Funding programs

• Experience with AWS and GCP

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.