Job Description

Role: IT Data Center & Cloud Architect

Location: Byhalia, MS (Hybrid)

Type: Contarct

Key Responsibilities:

• Proven experience guiding technical team engagements and providing effective servant leadership, collaboration, and teamwork.
• Architect, implement, manage, and maintain enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions across both on-premises and Azure cloud platforms.
• Act as the go-to Senior/Lead Cloud Engineer during operations, resolving issues, optimizing
• performance, and ensuring up time.
• Design and manage hybrid cloud solutions, integrating on-premises and cloud environments effectively.
• Implement security protocols and ensure compliance with industry standards across all
• environments.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure security principles, including identity and access management, network segmentation, and cloud security controls.
• Continuously monitor and optimize cloud resources to balance cost efficiency with high
• performance.
• Design and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud and data center operations.
• Lead projects from concept through implementation, coordinating with cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation on architecture, configurations, and processes.
• Provide guidance to junior engineers, fostering skill development and team growth.
• Promote the culture, values, mission and vision of client

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years in cloud engineering and data center management.
• At least 3 years in architecture or senior engineering role.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud). Azure preferred.
• Significant hands-on experience with hybrid IT environments, including both on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP). Azure preferred.
• Strong knowledge of on-prem data center infrastructure, including servers and storage, networking, wireless, firewalls, security, and virtualization.
• Proficiency in automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python).
• Strong problem-solving and leadership abilities.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to co-design and co-manage with client IT teams and third-party vendors and implementation partners.
• Demonstrable collaboration skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize and manage several projects at one time.
• Experience in manufacturing environment a plus.
• Microsoft Azure Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Google Cloud Architect a plus. Azure preferred.
• Additional certifications in security, networking or data center technologies a plus.

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