Senior Cloud Architect

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What do you think of when you hear the name MNP? Most likely tax and accounting, but as one of Canada's largest consulting organizations, we're so much more! We're also serious about technology.

Make an impact with MNP Digital, within Digital Solutions as a Senior Cloud Architect . As a Senior Cloud Architect at MNP Digital, you will be an integral part of the practice responsible for creating and delivering creative solutions for MNP clients. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with our delivery teams and bring together the best of MNP to ensure our Client's vision is realized. You will be helping clients in their efforts to address some of their most complex business problems through the effective application of cloud technologies. You will have the opportunity to work with MNP clients to develop information technology strategies and enhance technology investments. You will work with diverse people across many different industries, business competencies, and technologies. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate leadership and teamwork and gain increased responsibilities through multiple client experiences.

MNP is proudly Canadian. Providing business strategies and solutions, we are a leading national accounting, tax and business advisory firm in Canada. Entrepreneurial to our core, our talented team members transcend obstacles into opportunities and are successfully transforming mid-market business practices.

MNP Digital offers candidates the flexibility to be based from any MNP location within Canada.

What You'll Do

• Lead and work to design and develop cloud solutions.
• Define cloud strategies and plan multi-phased implementation roadmaps.
• Research, recommend, validate, and gain support for technical solutions to client challenges.
• Gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities, and analyze findings to provide solution recommendations and an effective technical design.
• Work with business stakeholders to shape solutions that deliver desired business outcomes.
• Engage with technical stakeholders of the Client and third parties to understand how their systems work
• Work with many areas of our Client's business, including but not limited to networking, compute, storage, information security, risk, enterprise identity and access management, and security operations.
• Own the content and lead workshops and whiteboard sessions on technical topics with the Client.
• Develop architectural artifacts to lead the delivery of a successful implementation.
• Apply DevOps principles to cloud infrastructure and be responsible for constructing landing zones and deploying the respective capabilities.
• Partner with application development teams to understand their requirements.
• Be responsible for the automation of the environment for an application to operate it in.
• Learn and embrace new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation, and scalability while decreasing costs.
• Mentor MNP project teams and technical team members.

What You'll Bring

• The consulting skills to technically lead transformation projects, software modernizations, and cloud infrastructure migrations.
• A background in architecting large-scale production solutions that run on Microsoft Azure.
• Complete understanding of the declarative capabilities of Azure infrastructure and the ability to a solution based on these capabilities.
• Production level experience migrating and deploying Azure cloud-based solutions.
• Proficiency in architecting, implementing and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure and topologies.
• Project experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing core infrastructure, networking and cloud-based services for business teams or consumers.
• Deep product knowledge and understanding of Azure product features, including Data and Advanced Analytics, Disaster Recovery, High-Availably, Monitoring, and Azure Resource Manager and Serverless Computing.
• Experience configuring and tuning cloud-hosted solutions and platforms.
• Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• Experience with identity and access management, encryption, key management principles, and secure cloud design patterns.
• Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies).
• Experience with agile, automation and DevOps principles.
• Automation and orchestration experience with Visual Studio, Azure Resource Manager, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform or Bicep.
• Extensive experience with complex data migration solutions, including which tools to use.
• Previous ownership of the technical solutions for Azure implementations.
• Experience reviewing and implementing DevOps standards on an implementation.
• Experience automating Cloud services deployment and maintenance.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate complex technical topics to senior stakeholders within the Client.
• Hands-on technical experience, capable of implementing the designs into a working solution.
• A deep understanding of securing Cloud technologies and data.
• The end-to-end experience to coach clients on cloud operations and cloud optimization.
• At least one professional-level Cloud certification.
• Experience with other cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

MY REWARDS @ MNP

With a focus on high-potential earnings, MNP is proud to offer customized rewards that support our unique culture and a balanced lifestyle to thrive at work and outside of the office. You will be rewarded with generous base pay, vacation time, 4 paid personal days, a group pension plan with 4% matching, voluntary savings products, bonus programs, flexible benefits, mental health resources, exclusive access to perks and discounts, professional development assistance, MNP University, a flexible ‘Dress For Your Day' environment, firm sponsored social events and more

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We embrace diversity as a core value and celebrate our differences. We believe each team member contributes unique gifts and amplifying their potential makes our business stronger. We encourage people with disabilities to apply!