Cox Enterprises

Senior Lead Solutions Architect – Azure Delivery

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: FloridaIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $163,400 - $272,300 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Assess application portfolios and plan migrations to Azure, create written assessment deliverables including Total Cost of Ownership models, application dispositions (7 R’s), high-level project plans and work breakdown structures, infrastructure designs and diagrams, and Azure Well-Architected Framework reviews
  • Define and maintain the technical vision for delivery projects, both externally with customers and internally with the project team
  • Perform hands-on execution as a member of implementation teams, driving migrations and deployments from planning through cutover and go-live
  • Create and maintain detailed architecture diagrams and configuration documentation
  • Educate customers on Azure services, cloud patterns, and anti-patterns
  • Collaborate with Cross-Functional Delivery and Sales teams to scope, define approach, and create level-of-effort estimations for engagements and statements of work
  • Contribute to the evolution of the Solutions Architecture practice through process improvements, templates, and project collateral

Requirements

  • A BA/BS degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or a MS degree with 6 years of relevant experience, or a Ph.D. with 3 years of experience, or 12 years of overall relevant experience without a college degree
  • Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
  • Required Certification: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
  • 8+ years of diverse solutions architecture or relevant experience with a minimum of 3 years of relevant public cloud experience
  • Hands-on experience with both lift-and-shift and greenfield Azure migrations
  • Intermediate level experience with one or more Infrastructure-as-Code implementations (Terraform preferred, ARM, Bicep)
  • Intermediate to expert level familiarity with containerization technologies (AKS, Container Apps) and DevOps patterns (Azure DevOps, GitOps, etc.)
  • Familiarity with Identity and Access models in on-premises (Active Directory) and public cloud (Entra ID, SAML SSO) environments
  • Intermediate to expert level experience with IP networking, ExpressRoute, VPN technologies, and related connectivity solutions
Benefits
  • The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations;
  • seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year;
  • up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
  • Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
  • health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • retirement planning (401(k))
  • paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AzureTotal Cost of Ownership modelsapplication dispositionsproject planswork breakdown structuresarchitecture diagramsInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformcontainerization technologiesIP networking
Soft Skills
presentation skillswritten communicationverbal communicationanalytical skillsproblem-solving
Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)