Azure Cloud Architect, Cloud Services

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

The Cloud Services team is looking for an Azure cloud architect with experience in cloud and infrastructure systems to join our IT team at Ares Management. The IT team consists of over 200 team members globally and is responsible for the firm’s technology landscape. The Cloud Services team within IT oversees and manages Ares’ cloud infrastructure, focusing on championing new solutions, establishing best practices and driving modern technology adoption.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for solutioning, implementing and automating systems and services with an emphasis on cloud technologies. The role requires expert understanding of cloud, hybrid and on-premise architectures and the corresponding infrastructure components.

Primary Functions and Essential Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design multi-region, cloud focused solutions on Azure leveraging DevOps tools and methodologies to modernize legacy systems and infrastructure

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and design secure cloud solutions

• Embrace IaC principles to manage and provision Azure resources such as virtual machines, containers, storage, firewalls

• Define infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Azure Resource Manager templates and leverage CI/CD for implementation

• Contribute as a technical SME to junior team members, external stakeholders and provide L3 support as-needed

• Manage and troubleshoot Azure systems and applications using administration tools and scripts

• Harden virtual machines, networks, and storage solutions to withstand cyber threats

• Design and enforce IAM policies, roles, and permissions within Azure AD and ensure secure access to Azure resources for users, applications and services

• Optimize and secure the Azure infrastructure using best practices and policies

• Monitor Azure resources for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

• Optimize virtual machine sizes, storage configurations, and network throughput while swiftly addressing technical issues and troubleshooting infrastructure-related problems

• Develop automation processes leveraging PowerShell, Python and other scripting utilities

• Identify technology gaps, recommend architecture/product changes to increase stability and reliability

• Translate business requirements into functional and technical details and assist in formulating solutions

• Provide infrastructure systems support and perform root cause analysis of issues

• Identify opportunities to improve business processes; recommending solutions to improve scalability, redundancy, and operational efficiency

• Maintain Jira tasks, Confluence documentation and lead team stand-ups

• Document architectural standards and processes around those standards

Qualifications

Experience Required:  

• 10+ years of total experience as an enterprise IT infrastructure engineer

• 5+ years of Azure experience designing and supporting large scale ecosystems

• Experience with migrating on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure

• Experience with Azure Landing Zone architecture

• Experience with infrastructure Configuration tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

• Scripting languages required: PowerShell and/or Python

• Experience with Identity Solutions such as Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD and OKTA

• Experience with Windows Server and Linux operating systems

• GIT basics and branching strategies

• Experience with Terraform and AKS

• Knowledge of cloud security controls including tenant isolation, security handling at infra, network, resource, application and data level, vulnerability assessments, applications and firewalls

• Experience with modern service hosting, security, and risk management concerns such as IAM, access control, monitoring, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, and containers

• Experience working in Private/Public/Hybrid Clouds

• Network Security & knowledge of WAN and LAN technologies

• Extensive practical knowledge of all layers of the OSI network model

• Strong business analysis skills - capturing and documenting requirements

• Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high quality applications

• Network technology experience

  • Working knowledge of high-level network architecture

  • Assess & review application data flow diagrams

  • Practical experience with data backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery

General Requirements:

• Dependable, great attitude, highly motivated and a team player

• Ability to extract meaningful information from extensive research and analysis to effectively present facts and findings in a digestible format; a keen eye for attention to detail

• A self-directed individual with a can-do attitude, willing to work in an energetic, collaborative and fast-paced environment, proactive in nature, and a proven ability to learn quickly, display flexibility and adaptability while resolving issues with minimal supervision

• Proven outstanding communication (written and verbal), presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills

• Ability to communicate technical information to non-IT audiences

• Experience managing internal and external stakeholders and leading project prioritization discussions to drive product vision and roadmap

• Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and competing demands; strong time management and prioritization skills

• High accuracy and detail orientation; confident decision-making skills

• Good judgment in terms of escalating issues vs. solving problems independently

• A solutions-oriented, self-starter and ability to see the big picture

• An analytical mind and a passion/interest in bringing new ideas to increase efficiency of existing processes

• Comfort in dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Ability to be flexible in terms of hours in order to coordinate with team members across various time zones

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent technical proficiency and professional work experience

• Microsoft / Azure certifications

Reporting Relationships

Compensation

$180,000-$220,000​

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.