Title: Azure Consultant Location: Phoenix, Arizona ( Day 1 onsite - hybrid ) Duration: Long term contract SPECIFICATIONS: Desired Experiences: Advanced Azure/certifications Minimum Required Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent, Masters preferred in Computer Science. Cloud Engineering/Architecture: 5 years 10 Plus years of Enterprise Information Technology Experience Skills & Qualifications: Experience designing, building, and implementing distributed cloud architecture within cloud environments Azure.

- APIM, APIOps, CosmosDB, EventHub, AKS etc. TerraForm experience building complex cloud Infrastructure, ability to write modules, best practice, state files management etc. is MUST. Solid understanding of Linux fundamentals. Windows welcome.

Infrastructure security scan tools understanding (eg Azure Defender, Container Scan, API security, Perimeter scan etc.) is much desired.Experience with full DevOps cycle spanning across - Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Observability, CICD, Secure CICD, ProdOps etc. Extensive experience in designing and implementing large scale platforms with high resiliency, availability, and reliability using public cloud infrastructure.

Experience in implementing security architecture and best practices in cloud infrastructure. Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Team player, ability to work within team and be independent.

Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to clearly communicate. Innovator and one who keeps tabs on various industry trends, cloud native advances and bring to team(s) attention for POC, Implementation