Cloud Solutions Architect at Geek Managed Services

Essential competencies

• More than 8 years of experience in a technical role with the last 2-3 years focused on Microsoft cloud solutions, having deployed projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support.
• Proven record of accomplishment of building deep technical relationships with clients.
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.
• The ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies.
• Acknowledged driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
• Technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, virtualisation, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
• Microsoft Azure certifications in AZ103/AZ300/AZ500

advantageous skills

• Technical experience and knowledge, in two or more data platform cloud solutions – such as Azure, AWS.
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend.
• Understanding partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.
• Prior work experience in an architectural position, within a technology and solutions driven environment.
• Valid driver’s license.

key responsibilities

• Understanding customers’ overall data centre, IT and business processes, to design implementation and roll-out cloud focused solutions.
• Application of technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, creating a data platform and ensuring long term technical viability of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS deployments
• Ensuring solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Develop deep relationships with the customer’s IT team and provide guidance to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• To share insights and best practices, as well as connecting with the engineering team to identify and resolve network security matters
• Collaborate with other engineers in developing complex end-to-end enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
• Be a Microsoft 365 evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

personal attributes

• A team player, not afraid to show initiative with strong problem solving and decision making skills
• A customer-focused attitude, with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated with a constant use of one’s own initiative
• The ability to multi-task and prioritise workload in real-time
• Passionate about keeping abreast of changes in your chosen area of technology
• The culture of imparting knowledge to co-workers, regardless of years of experience, and to constantly acquire and adopt knowledge from others
• Career-focused with the motivation to forge one’s own path to success within a high-performing team
• The drive to be the best in the industry in every task one undertakes

to apply, email the following information to us:

• Full CV
• Reference details from your direct managers at your 2 most recent places of employment
• Expected salary, your notice period and reasons for leaving each place of employment