Position: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Canada – Remote

Skills required:

1. Azure cloud experience (IaaS, PaaS)

2. Experience with Resiliency and BC/DR design concepts and Azure best practices

3. Azure consulting experience

Key Responsibilities

Conduct comprehensive assessments of customers’ business-critical application workloads deployed on Azure, focusing on resiliency, fault tolerance, and BC/DR readiness.
Identify architectural gaps, risks, and single points of failure in Azure environments and provide actionable recommendations.
Evaluate and improve resiliency across Azure IaaS/PaaS components including VMs, AKS, App Services, Storage, Networking, Databases, and hybrid connectivity.
Design and document improved architectures aligned with Azure Well-Architected Framework, Reliability Pillar, and Microsoft resiliency best practices.
Deliver workshops, technical sessions, and educational events to help customers understand resiliency gaps and the value of proactive remediation.
Collaborate closely with customer architecture teams, engineering teams, and Microsoft stakeholders to drive adoption of recommended changes.
Prepare assessment reports, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and BCDR improvement plans.
Provide strategic guidance on Azure-native high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, backup, and automation solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

Application Development (cloud-native design, distributed systems),
Azure Infrastructure solutioning/provisioning (compute, storage, networking).
Experience with Azure architecture frameworks, landing zones, and cloud governance.
Strong understanding of Azure services such as Availability Zones, Traffic Manager, Front Door, Azure Storage redundancy, SQL/MI HA/DR, ASR, Backup, AKS resiliency concepts, etc.
Ability to create high-quality architecture documentation and client-facing deliverables.

Regards

Patrick Fernandez

Talent Acquisition Group – Strategic Recruitment Manager

Cloud Solution Architect