Senior Cloud Architect (.NET​/Azure

About Halo Group:
Halo Group is a premier provider of IT talent. We place technology experts within the teams of the world’s leading companies and help clients build innovative businesses that keep them one step closer to their customers and one step ahead of the competition.

Halo Group strives to be among the most respected IT consulting firms by providing unmatched customer, consultant and employee support. A meaningful work environment for employees, attractive and interesting engagements for consultants, and cutting edge innovation for our customers set us apart from the rest. At Halo Group, people are not a commodity, but our greatest resource.

We delight in watching our customers utilize technology to succeed. Big projects or small, Halo Group combines the highest quality talent with our unwavering support to become an invaluable extension of your team. Our goal is not to meet expectations, but to exceed them as our consultants learn your business and duplicate success within your company. We call it The Halo Group Effect .

12+ years of experience in software engineering and/or software architecture

Experience with Azure Services

Experience building application with .NET Core

Critical Skills

• Deep understanding of different Virtualization platforms based on commercial and open source technologies (5+ years)
• Expertise in developing complex cloud-based product/services using Azure, AWS or other cloud technologies (2+ years)
• Direct experience migrating applications from the enterprise to public cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) (2+years)
• Experience helping development teams build and deploy microservices based applications in public cloud (2+ years)
• Experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes (2+ years)
• Experience with Cloud Application Development Platforms (Azure PaaS)
• Experience with complex API integration between private and public cloud environments
• Experience with multiple cloud automation/cloud management platforms

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Customer Focused and Collaboration – build strong relationships across all key business stakeholders specifically Enterprise Architecture and with Solution Management team. Ensure solid understanding of business objectives and product roadmaps. Collaboratively develop appropriate Architectural standards and roadmaps to support business outcomes. Works closely with technology industry leaders to derive the most innovative and effective technologies for the enterprise.
• Technical thought leadership and innovation – brings thought leadership and strong point of view with a focus on continually improving service value (agility/cost/quality). Looks for opportunities to enhance business value through IT innovation.
• Technical expertise – solid understanding of Cloud technologies, architecture and major service providers.
• Business understanding - ability to assess current and future business requirements and leverage existing standards or develop new standards where appropriate.

• Solid senior level .NET Architect with hands on experience
• Experience developing and deploying ASP.NET applications (MVC or classic)
• Must have experience with unit testing and integration testing ASP.NET applications
• Preferred experience building and deploying .NET applications with a CI/CD pipeline.
• Must be fluent in C#
• Must have experience building data-driven ASP.NET web applications (MS SQL or No
  
  SQL)
• Preferred experience with ASP.NET Web API, especially regarding scaling and securing RESTful services Experience building scalable Web based Service (REST)
• Knowledge of Micro Service Architecture Pattern
• Knowledge and experience building application event driven architecture pattern
• Experience building scalable,…