Position: Azure Solutions Architect
Company: EPAM
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Analyses, researches and evaluates alternative solutions, and serves as subject matter experts between the business and IT organization.

Ensures architecture supports the execution of critical business applications and develops high-level continuance plans in the event of a lapse in the architectural infrastructure. Implements the balance between business and technology, provides consultancy into the project teams and defines the architecture governance function, signing off governance architecture against well-defined standards and best practices.


May perform technical analysis, due diligence and recommendations for acquisition or strategic partnership targets, possibly leading efforts on smaller acquisitions.


The ask was for Azure engineer with following expertise:

• Cluster and node design Monitoring
• Ingress configuration
• General security, access control and code security
• Application packaging (pod/namespaces)
• Failure and Disaster recovery

Essential Knowledge and Skills :
Extensive software development experience with substantial Azure cloud experience
Experience building software following cloud native architecture methodologies
Building Azure cloud native applications and services utilizing ephemeral hardware running in Azure
IaC experience, Terraform
Proven ability to deliver and maintain AKS cluster
Extensive experience designing monitoring and logging strategy
Network infrastructure - DR Design, High availability
Understanding of security best practices for the cloud