Digital Engineering Sr. Azure Engineer - Remote US Based

NTT DATA is seeking a Digital Engineering Sr. Azure Engineer to join their team. The successful candidate will design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient Azure cloud architectures, lead cloud migration initiatives, and collaborate with various teams to define cloud best practices.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of cloud computing, networking, and storage principles with focus on Azure or AWS.
• Ability to perform independently driving technology discussions with stakeholders, govern the closure of the design and implementation decisions and leading from front on the technology delivery within time & budget.
• Ensure traceability of requirements through design, implementation, and testing phases of the project.
• Technical hands-on expert in the design, architecture, and deployment of Hybrid Cloud environments.
• Proven experience assessing clients’ workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap.
• Solid scripting and automation experience. IaC/Terraform experience is mandatory.
• Must be good at DevOps, DevSecOps and integrate CI/CD pipelines for deployments in cloud.
• Should be responsible to assess the cloud environment and apply best practices on reliability, cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and security.
• Experience with API integration, automation, configuration management, Monitoring, ensuring security and compliance
• Assist with the design and implementation of best governance practices for design, security, development, usability, cost control.
• Good experience of emerging technologies, including DevSecOps, AIOps, and Containers.
• Work closely with steady state support teams and provide guidelines to improve development, deployment & administration processes.
• Enforce best coding, security & reliability practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present findings and reports at the local and senior business management level.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and other enterprise architects to define the architecture domains. Assess business needs, organizational capabilities, IT processes, and translate into actionable detail level design using industry-proven architecture best practices and cloud best practices
• Provide guidance to subordinates, colleagues, and other stakeholders in highly complex problems and roadblocks.
• Able to work on On-Call rotations
• Able to work independently in a project scenario and recommend solutions by performing POCs.
• Strong in debugging and analyzing complex issues. Experience handling P1/P2 calls and escalations
• Able to write formal external RCA documentation and presentations
• Able to lead Customer service transitions
• Passion for delivering timely and outstanding customer service
• Able to manage and mentor L1/L2/L3 staff in support
• Great written and oral communication skills with internal and external customers

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution
• Flexible spending or health savings account
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance
• Participation in a 401k program with company match
• Additional voluntary or legally-required benefits