Imagine Staffing Technology Solutions Architect - Azure and Colo in Buffalo, NY | 1315717780

Verified Pay check_circle	$75 per hour
Hours	Full-time
Location	Buffalo, New York

Job Description

Job Title: Azure and Colocation Solutions Architect

Location: Onsite in Buffalo, NY required

Hire Type: Contingent / W2 only

Pay Rate: $75/HR (DOE)

Work Model: Hybrid Schedule (1 Day WFH, 4 Days Onsite)
Sponsorship: No H-1B, 1099, TN Sponsorship available for this position

Recruiter: Amanda Neudeck I aneudeck@imaginegroup.com

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

We are seeking a visionary Solutions Architect to help lead the design of resilient, scalable, and operationally supportable infrastructure solutions spanning data centers, colocation environments, and Azure, with a primary emphasis on data center architecture rigor (availability, resiliency tiers, capacity planning, disaster recovery, lifecycle, and operational readiness). This position requires a deep understanding of banking compliance and U.S. Federal regulations, as well as expertise in designing and implementing cloud solutions that align with the bank's operational and security standards.

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead To Your Success

Solution Design: Translate business and technical requirements into end-to-end solution architectures across enterprise data centers, colocation environments, and Microsoft Azure.
Data Center & Colocation Architecture: Define hosting patterns, fault domains, redundancy assumptions, and DR posture aligned to RTO/RPO expectations.
Azure Platform Foundation Alignment: Ensure designs align to core Azure landing zone design areas (identity and access, resource organization, network topology and connectivity, security, governance, and operations).
Connectivity, Network & Segmentation: Define secure connectivity and segmentation patterns between Azure and colo/data center environments in partnership with network teams.
Operational Readiness: Architect for supportability with monitoring/telemetry expectations, runbooks, ownership models, maintenance windows, and lifecycle plans.
Standards & Governance: Develop reusable reference architectures and patterns; review solutions through architecture governance checkpoints for standards and compliance alignment.
Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and guide delivery teams through execution.

Skills that will Lead To Your Success

Enterprise solution architecture experience with data center and colocation hosting models.
Strong architectural knowledge of availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness patterns.
Azure platform architecture fundamentals, including identity and access, network topology, governance guardrails, and operations management concepts.
Strong documentation and visualization skills (architecture diagrams, dependency maps, data flows, and decision records).
Leadership and collaboration skills in Agile/DevOps environments; ability to guide delivery without becoming an implementation bottleneck.
Analytical problem-solving for complex infrastructure constraints (performance, latency, reliability, and cost).
Data Center / Colocation: Redundancy concepts, fault domains, hosting models, capacity planning considerations, and operational support practices.
Disaster Recovery: Failover/failback concepts, recovery objectives, testing expectations, and resiliency trade-offs.
Azure Landing Zone Concepts: Identity and access as a primary security boundary; subscription and resource organization impacts; network topology and connectivity foundations; security, governance, and operational management baselines.
Monitoring Foundations: Understanding of telemetry (logs, metrics, traces, events) required to support early detection and effective incident response.

Education And Experience Required:

Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Experience: 5+ years in solution architecture, infrastructure architecture, or platform engineering roles with demonstrated data center/colo responsibilities.
Preferred Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect (or equivalent Azure architecture credential).
Preferred: Experience in financial services or other regulated environments with strong operational rigor and compliance awareness.
Strong communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Solution Designs: Documented target-state architectures for Azure and colo/data center deployments, including resiliency and operational models.
Reference Architectures & Patterns: Reusable patterns for common workload types and hosting approaches in Azure and colo/data center environments.
Connectivity & Segmentation Designs: Standard approaches for secure connectivity, routing, and segmentation between environments.
Operational Readiness Package: Monitoring approach, runbooks, ownership model, lifecycle/patching approach, and DR posture aligned to architecture decisions.
Decision Records & Documentation: Architecture decisions, trade-offs, dependency maps, and implementation guidance for delivery teams.

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