Azure Cloud Architect

Accenture is a leading global professional services company helping businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, and accelerate revenue growth. It has approximately 791,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. The role is part of Accenture's Cloud First team, focusing on cloud transformation for international enterprise clients.

• Over 5 years of hands-on experience in Azure cloud infrastructure engineering.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure with advanced/expert-level Azure certifications.
• Ability to oversee development teams, plan tasks, and translate technical requirements into actionable backlogs.
• Experience designing and planning highly available systems, including Disaster Recovery strategies.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications for Azure Landing Zone architectures.
• Strong understanding of container technologies and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools.
• Solid grasp of virtualization technologies.
• Comprehensive knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git/GitLab, Pipelines, Helm charts, ArgoCD).
• Ability to develop scripts and applications using at least one programming language (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Experience with cost and resource optimization in cloud environments.
• Enterprise architecture experience within public cloud environments, including migration planning and onboarding.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and managing incidents, requests, changes, and problems.
• Upper-intermediate level of English and Polish (spoken and written).
• Excellent communication skills and team collaboration ability.

Nice to have:

• Experience with modern programming languages (e.g., PowerShell, Azure CLI, Node.js, React, .NET, Python, Java).
• Expertise in Azure service categories such as infrastructure (Windows/Linux OS, networking, storage, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud security, application performance) and App Services (Web Apps, Mobile Apps, API Apps, Logic Apps).
• Experience in technical sales support or pre-sales activities.
• Kubernetes Developer or Security-oriented certification.

• Design end-to-end architectures for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments on Microsoft Azure, including Azure Landing Zones, governance, and security models.
• Define and implement compute environments such as autoscaling, load balancing, serverless solutions, Azure database services, and CI/CD pipelines integrated with on-premises services.
• Design cloud-native networking (VNETs, peering, firewalls, container networking) and security & compliance controls (IAM, resource hierarchy, data security, cost management).
• Implement monitoring, logging, profiling, and alerting solutions for reliability and observability.
• Prepare migration approaches and onboarding plans to Azure, including effort estimation, cost and resource calculations, and optimization scenarios.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to apply Infrastructure as Code and automation, improve delivery pipelines, and support a mature DevOps culture.
• Lead or support incident, request, change, and problem management activities, acting as a trusted technical advisor to clients.

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