Azure Infrastructure Manager

Avanade is the perfect stage to bring your thoughtful, energetic, and curious approach to technology consulting.

Our talented Azure Platform Community consists of some of the most dedicated and passionate professionals in the field, and we plan to grow! As an Azure Infrastructure Manager at Avanade, you will focus on Azure cloud technologies and work with the latest Microsoft technologies on exciting client projects as part of our Solutioning Team. You’ll contribute to proposing, designing, and implementing innovative and valuable solutions that meet our customers’ needs. This opportunity is made more purposeful through our focus on positive outcomes for how humans work, interact, and live. If you like pushing boundaries by outsmarting challenges, read on!

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in both presales and delivery activities, applying your project experience and technical expertise to contribute to new proposals and customer solutions.

• Collaborate as part of a cross-technical team with different Avanade Portugal areas, contributing innovative solutions and applying your expertise to solve complex, cross-technology challenges.

• Apply your expertise in solution design to propose and support Azure-native solutions that provide value and meet customer needs.

• Provide technical and consulting expertise to advise clients on appropriate governance approaches, ensure platform stability, and support evolving business requirements.

• Work on projects that utilize the full breadth of the Azure platform across both IaaS and PaaS, leveraging Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment practices.

• Design and implement Azure solutions across the Azure platform, including subscriptions and management, networking, security, compute, storage, and operations, for major enterprise projects.

• Apply knowledge of the latest Azure infrastructure technologies, including Open Source on Azure, Kubernetes, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, and Azure Migrate, as well as Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

• Solve complex technical challenges through infrastructure solutions spanning cloud and on-premises environments, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, cloud technologies, automation, scripting, and DevOps.

• Contribute to knowledge sharing and the continuous improvement of Azure Platform practices, technical approaches, and solution delivery within the community

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Required Qualifications

• Around 5+ years of experience working on cloud infrastructure or architecture projects, ideally within enterprise environments.

• Around 3+ years of experience managing technical teams, leading project teams, or coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams.

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions across Microsoft Azure, including subscriptions and management, networking, security, compute, storage, and operations.

• Experience across Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including infrastructure deployment, platform management, and operational stability.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, scripting, and CI/CD or DevOps practices.

• Ability to address complex infrastructure challenges across cloud and on-premises environments, including migration, security, and enterprise directory services.

• Strong solution-design and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable technical solutions.

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to advise clients and collaborate with cross-functional technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to both project delivery and presales activities, including proposal development, solution shaping, and technical presentations.

• Experience preparing or supporting architecture proposals and estimates, understanding customer needs, and recommending appropriate Azure solutions.

• Experience in a consulting environment, working directly with clients and collaborating across different technology domains.

• Knowledge of complementary Azure infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Open Source on Azure, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, and Azure Migrate.

• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, as well as automated deployment practices.

• Experience promoting knowledge sharing, mentoring team members, and improving technical practices and delivery approaches within an engineering or architecture community.

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