Solution Architect

Short company description

About Luxoft
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), is a digital strategy and software engineering firm providing bespoke technology solutions that drive business change for customers the world over. Acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology in 2019, Luxoft is a global operation in 44 cities and 23 countries with an international, agile workforce of nearly 18,000 people. It combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, helping over 425 global clients innovate in the areas of automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications. DXC Technology is a leading Fortune 500 IT services company which helps global companies run their mission critical systems. Together, DXC and Luxoft offer a differentiated customer-value proposition for digital transformation by combining Luxoft’s front-end digital capabilities with DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and integration. Follow our profile for regular updates and insights into technology and business needs.
​​​​​​​Luxoft Romania has been established since 2001. We currently have approximately 2500 employees working from different locations in the country.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills Description:
- 5 plus years’ experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud and hybrid Azure Platform solutions.
- Previous experience leading and mentoring Cloud teams/Communities of Practice. NTH
- Proven leadership skills, and capable of building and managing technical teams/communities of practice. NTH
- Can demonstrate deep knowledge in setting up Microsoft Cloud Products and hands on experience with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Prior experience in roles such as Azure engineering, development, or Azure-focused DevSecOps.
- Familiarity with Azure cloud native components and products.
- 5 years’ demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices.
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab.
- Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree.
- Knowledge of following technical stack: Solution Architecture, Microsoft Azure Networking, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure Service Fabric

Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Certificates like: AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400, AZ-305
- Proven track record working in agile environments
- 5 years’ hands on experience with Azure products and services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS).
- Proactive incident management with Azure-based troubleshooting.
- Sound understanding of financial markets.

Responsibilities

- Lead and guide multiple communities of practices, including Lead Platform Engineering managers and platform engineers, encouraging best practices in Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes.
- Understands the vision and strategy and articulates it to the community of practice leads and teams; the “why,” the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc.
- Defines key features and platform enhancements needed to keep pace with business demand and own the product backlog.
- Lead key strategic projects/initiatives to meet strategic outcomes and enable operational excellence. 
- Ensure feedback and learnings are obtained and utilised as early and often as possible. 
- Engineer and optimize hybrid Azure Platform solutions, focusing on but not limited to compute, network, storage, monitoring, security, and automation.
- Collaborate with Lead Platform Engineering Managers, architects, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of Azure Landing Zone platform.
- Provide expertise in IT operations areas, such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, and governance, ensuring these areas align with the overall Azure Platform strategy.

Other info

This team focuses on building, developing, and supporting our Azure cloud platform to accelerate the time-to-market of innovative finance products. In collaboration with Microsoft, we aim to transform how company leverages the cloud platform:
- Engage in designing, developing, and building complex cloud services and capabilities.
- Work alongside architects, developers, and other engineers to ensure efficient Azure Product engineering.
- Active involvement in decision making areas such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery and governance