Azure Architect

High performing team members, challenging projects and a great place to work! This is what you can expect if you join the Quisitive team. Founded in 2016, Quisitive is a publicly traded, global Microsoft services and solutions partner with a team of professionals that has a long history of successfully delivering award-winning Microsoft solutions, including being named the 2024 Worldwide Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Analytics. Our culture of continual learning and innovation ensures that we remain committed to Microsoft’s long-term strategy.

What do we attribute our award-winning success to? The people we hire, of course! Our team members don’t join Quisitive for just a job. They come to Quisitive to contribute to something bigger than themselves – to be part of a high-performing culture, continue their infinite quest to learn, and deliver innovative and exciting solutions that make a real impact on our customers’ business. We strive to provide the tools and leadership that you need to be successful, and then we let you do what you do best!

It is a very exciting time of growth for our Azure Management Solutions team, and we are currently hiring an Azure Architect to join our growing team.

This role can be located anywhere in the United States, but we would prefer Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix or Tampa.

What will my role be? 

In this senior level role, you will be part of Quisitive’s growing Azure Management Solutions team. You will work with some great minds to design and implement cloud solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, reliability, and performance. You will deploy Azure based solutions and technologies across a wide range of industries. You will serve as Enterprise Architect for your clients and drive security, cost, and operational best practices. 

What’s required? 

Heavy involvement with customer architecture including the following: 

• Engage directly with customers at the CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships 
• Define architectural roadmaps including Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity  
• Develop a deep understanding of how our customers use the Azure platform and their use of compute, storage, database, network and modern workloads 
• Architect and design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements 
• Create and review Azure architecture and solution design artifacts 
• Drive strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies 
• Manage processes related to modernization, architecture, disaster recovery and business transformation 
• Identify, communicate and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and decisions throughout the project lifecycle 
• Comfort with tooling and developing specialized solutions for customers 
• Assessing on-premise and Cloud infrastructure to capture current operating costs and propose future improvements to customer technical and business teams 
• Providing guidance and mentoring to your peers and less senior consultants
• Assist with development and refinement of Standard Operating Procedures to improve client support processes and experience

Required Technology Experience: 

Deep Understanding of: 

• Azure Infrastructure as a Service – Compute, Storage, Network 
• Azure Policy 
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud 
• Log Analytics/Azure Monitor 
• Microsoft Entra ID 
• Overall understanding of key concepts of Azure 

 Preferred: 

• Platform as a Service – Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Data Factory 
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure Custom Policies 
• Azure DevOps 
• Familiarity with ITIL framework and ITSM toolsets

Certifications: 

• Required: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate. A willingness to obtain these in the first month will be accepted. 
• Preferred: Microsoft Certified – Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert Cloud Platform and Infrastructure 

We are looking for curious initiative takers to join our team, so if you are passionate about being a leader and working with smart people that are committed to accomplishing great things, then apply today!

Please, no third-party agency inquiries, and we are unable to offer visa sponsorships at this time.

About Quisitive

With significant growth since 2016, Quisitive is rapidly achieving our vision of becoming the premier, global Microsoft partner as we continue to expand across the United States, Canada and India. With a diversified delivery model that includes both nearshore and offshore capabilities, our team of Microsoft experts delivers cloud and artificial intelligence business solutions and services that help customers achieve their digital transformation goals. In addition, Quisitive has a portfolio of industry-focused solutions that address customer challenges in healthcare, manufacturing, state & local government and performance management.