Cloud Solutions Engineer

2 weeks ago


Lansing, Michigan, United States TEKsystems Full time
Position Overview:

The Cloud Solutions Engineer plays a pivotal role in guiding and directly participating in sales initiatives to effectively shape, propose, and finalize client solutions.

This position primarily serves as the expert leader representing the client's solution perspective, ensuring alignment across sales, financial, business, and delivery dimensions.


In this role, the engineer is responsible for shaping, developing, and sustaining a portfolio of standardized solutions by analyzing client and industry trends, core competencies, and partner insights to create a compelling value proposition for the target market.


The Cloud Solutions Engineer provides strategic direction, guidance, and facilitation for developing both current and future architectures that meet client objectives and vision.

The engineer collaborates across all departments, acting as a visionary to proactively define the future direction of solutions.

Reports to:

VP Business Development

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-effective Azure cloud solutions.
  • Lead the architecture and design of cloud environments, including Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
  • Oversee Azure hosting environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and develop architectural solutions that align with business objectives.
  • Develop and maintain cloud architecture standards, best practices, and guidelines.
  • Conduct architectural reviews and assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior architects and cloud engineers.
  • Stay current with the latest Azure services, features, and best practices, and incorporate them into architectural designs.
  • Oversee the migration of on-premises applications and VMware infrastructure to Azure.
  • Manage and optimize cloud costs, ensuring efficient use of cloud resources.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to cloud infrastructure and services.
  • Design and implement robust infrastructure solutions, including network, storage, and compute resources.
  • Ensure the integration of security best practices and policies in the design and implementation of infrastructure solutions.
  • Monitor infrastructure performance and implement necessary improvements to optimize efficiency and reliability.
  • Work closely with IT operations to ensure smooth deployment and operation of infrastructure solutions.
Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure architecture, with at least 5 years focused on cloud architecture and infrastructure.
  • Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
  • Proven experience in managing and optimizing Azure hosting environments.
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure components such as VMware virtual machines, virtual networks, load balancers, and storage accounts.
  • Experience in designing and implementing disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.
  • Proficiency in network architecture and design, including virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, and VPN gateways.
  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification (AZ-305 or equivalent) is highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills:

Solution architecture, Cloud, Design, Strategy, Architecture, Azure, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, VMware, AWS, Google, GCP, SQL

Preferred Skills:

  • Familiarity with other cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud) is a plus.
  • Knowledge of database technologies, including SQL and Oracle databases is a plus.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Understands the client's future plans to provide valuable insights to the Leadership Team.
  • Oversees the definition of future-state and current-state solutions architecture and uses it to identify and guide projects.
  • Owns stewardship duties of business architecture artifacts.
  • Delivers a cross-organizational perspective and understanding to client Leadership.
  • Develops and delivers solution presentations to clients, tailoring content to the audience to include financial (ROI/TCO) and business value.
  • Leads efforts to define/refine the client's standard offering portfolio, artifacts, and intellectual property.
Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We are partners in transformation, assisting clients in activating ideas and solutions to leverage new opportunities.

Our team of 80,000 professionals collaborates with over 6,000 clients, including a significant portion of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe, and Asia.

As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with forward-thinking leaders to drive change.

That's the essence of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

We are an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any characteristic protected by law.



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