DevOps Architect (Azure)

Exadel

2d•$75 - $85

About The Position

The DevOps Architect will design, develop, and deploy Azure-hosted cloud solutions that meet business and technical requirements. The role focuses on creating secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available cloud environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards and firm policies, and optimizing performance and cost. The architect serves as the Azure Cloud Champion for application development and DevOps teams, collaborates with application architects and security teams, and provides technical guidance to team members. The position also involves coordinating architecture reviews, working with vendors and cloud providers, implementing disaster recovery strategies, maintaining documentation, and reporting on cloud service performance and cost trends. The role supports a client team that designs, develops, and deploys enterprise technology and AI-driven tools for tax services. It is open to candidates residing in the United States. The expected compensation range is $75–85 per hour, with eligibility for commission, bonus, or other incentive compensation where applicable. Actual compensation depends on experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Extensive experience designing, developing, and deploying cloud architecture.
Expertise with the Azure Cloud platform, including PaaS offerings such as AKS, Azure SQL, APIM, and Azure Service Bus.
Experience with cloud-native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
Strong knowledge of networking, security, and database management in cloud environments.
Knowledge of source code management concepts, including code lines, branching, merging, integration, and versioning.
Intermediate+ English proficiency.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect certification.
Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

Design Azure-hosted solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
Create highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure cloud environments and ensure optimal performance.
Act as the Azure Cloud Champion for the App Development and DevOps teams.
Ensure compliance with industry standards and firm policies.
Work with application architects, DevSecOps, and the Cyber Team to review security questionnaires.
Guide DevOps and development teams to ensure smooth integration of cloud solutions.
Organize and coordinate infrastructure architecture reviews as needed.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
Liaise with vendors and cloud providers to ensure proper delivery of services.
Monitor cloud systems against performance benchmarks and security requirements.
Optimize cloud resources and costs through automation and monitoring.
Implement disaster recovery strategy and ensure high availability of cloud resources.
Maintain up-to-date technical documentation.
Report on cloud service performance and cost trends.
Produce proofs of concept to support development and DevOps teams.
Translate traditional SDLC phases into agile development phases when writing software to automate cloud architecture-related tasks.