Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Consultant

Riyadh Tax Free16 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
**Devoteam is a leading consulting firm focused on digital strategy, tech platforms and cybersecurity. By combining creativity, tech and data insights, we empower our customers to transform their business and unlock the future. • *With 25 years’ experience and more than 8,500 employees across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Devoteam promotes responsible tech for people and works to create better change. • *Creative tech for Better Change.** As a Microsoft Azure Infra Consultant, you will deliver quality engagements on high profile projects leveraging your expertise as an advisor, reviewer and/or individual contributor to ensure customer value and meet project objectives. - Operate customer’s Stack (Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc). - Support Customer IT team in day-to-day tasks (build new servers, DBs..etc) - Support customer IT team to utilize the new technology offered by Devoteam deployment teams. - Operate daily tasks (Backup, Monitor, Generate Reports, and statements - Issue triage and isolation for supported solution and other components primarily (but not limited to) built on MS Technologies or on Open Source. - Problem resolution and root-cause analysis and operational documentation; Escalate product bugs to Customer Support/Product Group and follow-up. - Handle the tickets with vendor or Devoteam Backoffice. - Consultants combine their technical skills, creativity, and customer focus in order to deliver great solutions to their customers, ensuring maximum value is obtained from Microsoft technologies and solutions. - Required qualifications for all Consultants include: - customer-facing experience involving project envisioning, planning, design, development, and deployment of complex solutions - 2+ years of infrastructure experience: automation-related experienceis valued. Storage, Networking, Compute, Virtualization, and Scripting languages such as PowerShell are acceptable. - Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, microservices, and so on - Associated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to follow RPC call chains across arbitrary network steps. Consequent understanding of monitoring in distributed systems - Experience with working in a team, including coordinating large projects, communicating well, and exercising initiative when presented with problems - Practical experience running large-scale online systems is always an advantage - Demonstrated ability to focus on the development of customer business agility and business value, while simultaneously providing deep experience with specific technologies - Strong communication, consulting, analytical and problem-solving skills - Growth mindset - Flexible work approaches with strong proactivity and inclination to resolving customer situations • *Required Skills**: - Good understanding of key Azure components and concepts for both IAAS and PAAS including networking, compute, storage, security, backup, DR. - Azure managed services and Azure well-architected framework, beside experience in Hybrid cloud environments - Azure Components (AKS, ACR, Key Vault, App Gateway, Azure SQL, API Manager) - Azure Stack HCI, Azure Arc. - Azure Virtual Desktop. - Monitoring (Azure monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics and Dynatrace) - Azure Security - Technical understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products - Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring andsupportingsignificantcomponents withinamoderndigital service platform in production environments. - Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective and minimise lock-in. - Excellent customer facing communication, presentation skills and technical writing capability for tender responses, bids and proposals. - **Fluent in English. Fluency in Arabic is highly desirable