Specialist Solutions Architect (AWS/Azure)

Job Description

As part of our managed cloud strategy we are seeking an experienced and accomplished Senior Solution Architect specialising in Amazon Web Services with experience across other cloud technologies.
They will be a recognised subject matter expert and thought leader with deep expertise in providing technical design advice to both new and existing customers. The role will be focused on both engaging with our customers and prospects to provide advisory and thought leadership on cloud services, and delivering architecture and design activities as part of customer implementations and projects.
This role will be working closely with our global Microsoft Practice Team to design and maintain good practice blueprints for our supported workloads.
The value of the Rackspace Solution Architect is to:

• Empower enterprises with the information necessary to make easy technology buying decisions
• Assist in designing flexible and supportable solutions to customer problems utilising the many different technology offerings in the Rackspace product portfolio
• Help businesses become more agile and derive value from new technologies and processes
• Applicants should have a proven capability to understand client capabilities, application-based architecture best practices, commercial models and other requirements which will help customers plan and execute their transformations to Azure cloud.

Ideally, you will have:

• Strong customer focus, with an ability to continually anticipate and meet their needs
• Amazon Web Services RDS, S3, EC2, EKS, EBS, DirectConnect, Cognito, CloudWatch
• Microsoft Azure Services or AWS billing, credit and escalation processes
• Microsoft Azure Cloud, SQL, Storage, Azure Backup, Azure Portal, Active Directory, Azure OMS, Application Layer Gateway
• Microsoft Windows operating systems: Windows 2008, 2012, 2016
• Hyper-V, Windows Clustering, System Centre, PowerShell, Active Directory, IIS, SQL, .NET IDE usage and Plugins to Azure
• VLANs, layer2/3 routing, access lists & load balancing
• Infrastructure Automation toolsets such as PowerShell DSC, Chef or Puppet
• Monitoring tools such as System Centre Operations Manager
• Expert experience in Office 365
• Excellent knowledge of application development, delivery and infrastructure automation
• Design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns and practices
• An understanding of critical supporting systems, including: Order Management, Warehouse management, ERP, Service Bus, Product Information Management, CRM and CMS.
• Microsoft Programming languages (VB, C, C++, C#)
• Web development (ASP.Net, AJAX, Silverlight)
• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Leadership of account planning activities, service improvement or business development activity
• Ability to collaborate with and manage diverse cross functional teams for successful customer outcomes
• Multiple certifications in AWS, Azure and Office 365 products
• Microsoft Operations Management Suite (Operations Insights and Application Insights)
• Tools to monitor and alert availability and performance through the Azure Portal

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The right candidate for the role will have multiple years’ experience with AWS. They will have served as a subject matter expert in designing and migrating enterprise-grade applications to live in the cloud. We are looking for the top talent in the industry, highly-skilled in complex cloud deployments and adept at the design and implementation of complex platforms.