Principal Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure at Neudesic, an IBM Company in Houston, Texas

Posted in Other about 13 hours ago.

Type: full-time





Job Description:

About Neudesic

Passion for technology drives us, but it's innovation that defines us. From design to development and support to management, Neudesic offers decades of experience, proven frameworks and a disciplined approach to quickly deliver reliable, quality solutions that help our customers go to market faster.

What sets us apart from the rest, is an amazing collection of people who live and lead with our core values. We believe that everyone should be Passionate about what they do, Disciplined to the core, Innovative by nature, committed to a Team and conduct themselves with Integrity. If these attributes mean something to you - we'd like to hear from you.

Role Profile

Are you a technology leader seeking opportunities to innovate, lead business transformation, and serve your community? Neudesic is currently seeking a Principal Consultant to join our Cloud Infrastructure Services team for our Mountain market.

Neudesic Principal Consultants on our Cloud Infrastructure Services team are thought-leaders for clients, with a successful history of providing unique, well thought out architecture, design, development, and deployment solutions to complex business challenges. They are market leaders contributing to internal and external communities, growth and support of local teams. In addition, they assist regional account teams thru executive level presentations, statements of work and proposals, and exemplary delivery of solutions. They are deeply experienced with large-scale cloud infrastructure solutions, and have extensive experience in a leadership role.

The ideal Principal Consultant - CIS candidate has senior-advanced level knowledge and experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions and migrations on Cloud platforms primarily on Azure. The position is customer facing and will work closely with market leadership on both technical sales pursuits as well as technical delivery oversight. This position will work with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver the best solutions for large scale infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in public and hybrid cloud models. Consulting skills and the ability to clearly pull a desired state from a customer's requests is a required skill. The ability to work with delivery teams and support the sales process from a technical excellence position is also required.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure (AWS and GCP is a plus) using industry best practices leveraging the WAF and CAF frameworks.
  • Implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.
  • Design and develop automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration process.
  • Work closely with the Development and Operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure.
  • Understanding of Azure Database technologies (both IaaS and PaaS) and options to support the migration process. This will include and not limited to Azure database migration technologies and refactoring options.
  • Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.
  • Build effective monitoring, logging and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., HIPAA).
  • Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure on Azure.
  • Microsoft Partner Funding options management for the region.
  • Work with solution offering teams that will be delivering and development of content for sales support.
  • Manage and mentor group of consultants and advise on career path.

Key Technology Requirements:
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Azure Database and storage technologies (Storage Accounts, SQL Server, CosmosDB), Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load balancer, API Gateway and Azure AD.
  • Cloud Management: Policy, RBAC roles, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting, Site Recovery, Disaster Recovery
  • On-premise infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, VMWare, Hyper-V, firewalls, routing
  • Identity and user management solutions provided by Azure or 3rd party.
  • Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Team Server (VSTS), Jenkins, Github, Octopus Deploy
  • Experience with Automation scripting including PowerShell and other configuration as code tools.
  • Deployment automation languages and tools such as JSON Template, Terraform, Ansible
  • Experience with Azure and 3rd party monitoring tools
  • Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management
  • Azure WAF (Well Architected Framework) and CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) knowledgebase

Additional Skills & Competencies:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and networking roles
  • Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.
  • Experienced in problem solving, and able to follow a methodical implementation process.
  • Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities.
  • Ability to communicate with clients at all levels.

Technology Plus:
  • Microsoft Azure certified - specifically AZ300 and AZ301
  • Hands-on Experience with Terraform
  • Knowledge and/or experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lakes
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Funding programs
  • Experience with AWS and GCP

Neudesic also offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Time Off & Paid Sick Leave
  • Employee assistance program and other benefits

For Texas, the expected salary range for this position is between $130,000 and $180,000. The salary range may be different if the successful employee is in a different state. This position is also eligible for performance bonuses. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.

Accommodations currently remain in effect for Neudesic employees to work remotely, provided that remote work is consistent with the work patterns and requirements of their team's management and client obligations. Subject to business needs, employees may be required to perform work or attend meetings on-site at a client or Neudesic location.

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Neudesic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Neudesic is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. Neudesic will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Neudesic will share your personal information with other IBM companies involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/privacy?lnk=flg-priv-usen
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