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Neudesic, an IBM Company

Principal Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure

Neudesic, an IBM Company, New York, New York, United States

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About Neudesic:

Passion for technology drives us, but it’s innovation that defines us. From design to development and support to management, Neudesic offers decades of experience, proven frameworks and a disciplined approach to quickly deliver reliable, quality solutions that help our customers go to market faster.

What sets us apart from the rest, is an amazing collection of people who live and lead with our core values. We believe that everyone should be

Passionate

about what they do,

Disciplined

to the core,

Innovative

by nature, committed to a

Team

and conduct themselves with

Integrity.

If these attributes mean something to you - we'd like to hear from you.

Role Profile

Neudesic Principal Consultants on our Cloud Infrastructure Services team are thought‑leaders for clients, with a successful history of providing unique, well‑thought‑out architecture, design, development, and deployment solutions to complex business challenges. They are market leaders contributing to internal and external communities, growth and support of local teams. In addition, they assist regional account teams through executive level presentations, statements of work and proposals, and exemplary delivery of solutions. They are deeply experienced with large‑scale cloud infrastructure solutions, and have extensive experience in a leadership role.

The ideal Principal Consultant – CIS candidate has senior‑advanced level knowledge and experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions and migrations on Cloud platforms primarily on Azure. The position is customer facing and will work closely with market leadership on both technical sales pursuits as well as technical delivery oversight. This position will work with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver the best solutions for large scale infrastructure cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure (AWS and GCP is a plus) using industry best practices leveraging the WAF and CAF frameworks.

Implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.

Design and develop automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration process.

Work closely with the Development and Operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure.

Understanding of Azure Database technologies (both IaaS and PaaS) and options to support the migration process. This will include and not limited to Azure database migration technologies and refactoring options.

Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.

Build effective monitoring, logging and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., HIPAA).

Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure on Azure.

Microsoft Partner Funding options management for the region.

Work with solution offering teams that will be delivering and development of content for sales support.

Manage and mentor group of consultants and advise on career path.

Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Azure Database and storage technologies (Storage Accounts, SQL Server, CosmosDB), Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load balancer, API Gateway and Azure AD.

Cloud Management: Policy, RBAC roles, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting, Site Recovery, Disaster Recovery.

On‑premise infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, VMWare, Hyper‑V, firewalls, routing.

Identity and user management solutions provided by Azure or 3rd party.

Experience with Automation scripting including PowerShell and other configuration as code tools.

Deployment automation languages and tools such as Terraform, JSON Template, Ansible.

Experience with Azure and 3rd party monitoring tools.

Experience with Windows and Linux‑based operating system configuration, automation and management.

Azure WAF (Well Architected Framework) and CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) knowledgebase.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.

10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and networking roles.

Must be a self‑starter who requires minimal supervision.

Hands‑on experience with infrastructure deployment using Terraform.

Strong background in Azure configuration, architecture, and deployment.

Experience with AI solution deployment within cloud environments.

Experienced in problem solving, and able to follow a methodical implementation process.

Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities.

Prior experience in the utilities industry strongly preferred.

Ability to communicate with clients at all levels.

Ability to travel up to 25%.

Microsoft Azure certified – specifically AZ300 and AZ301.

Knowledge and/or experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lakes.

Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Funding programs.

Experience with AWS and GCP.

Qualifications • 10+ years in cloud infrastructure and networking roles. • 10+ years of experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions on Azure. • Strong background in Azure configuration, architecture, and deployment. • Hands‑on experience with Terraform and automation tools. • Microsoft Azure certification (AZ300, AZ301). • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. • Excellent communication and client engagement skills. • Ability to travel up to 25%. • Prior experience in the utilities industry preferred. • Minimum self‑starter, minimal supervision.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Employee assistance program and other benefits

Neudesic offers a competitive remote work allowance and other benefits. Remote work is available for eligible candidates and is consistent with the work patterns and requirements of the team’s management and client obligations. Employees may be required to perform work or attend meetings on‑site at a client or Neudesic location as subject to business needs.

Neudesic is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Neudesic is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. Neudesic will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application, you understand that Neudesic will share your personal information with other IBM companies involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More Information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross‑border data transfer, are available: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/privacy?lnk=flg-priv-usen.

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