Cloud Architect

Equity Residential is seeking a Cloud Architect to lead the planning, analysis, design, and implementation of Microsoft Azure cloud IaaS and PaaS enterprise-scalable solutions. The successful candidate will have 7+ years of relevant infrastructure or software engineering experience, 3+ years of experience working with Azure cloud solutions, and Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.

Requirements

• Partner with IT leadership and other business teams to develop standards, templates, frameworks, and solutions in order to drive our cloud strategy across the organization and within our services for internal and external customer delivery.
• Review and manage technical requirements and business functional requirements to establish new cloud systems and migrate existing applications using Azure cloud services.
• Collect feedback from other team leads and make recommendations to deploy Azure infrastructure and move workloads to Azure compute resources.
• Coach Azure DevOps and Data Engineers in cloud best practices to help them upskill and perform their job responsibilities.
• Monitor and report on Azure usage costs and recommend solutions for cost savings as necessary.
• Keep up to date on the latest Azure cloud services, tools, and major changes.
• Willing to work with other 3rd party and/or on-premise application platforms as needed.
• Represents the Company in a professional manner at all times.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision care
• 9 paid holidays, annual vacation time, paid sick leave, new parent benefits
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Rent Discounts, Competitive Compensation
• Paid Community Service Hours
• Leadership Development