Technical Lead ? Cloud Infrastructure Services at Cognizant in Dallas, Texas

Job Description:

Role: Technical
Lead ? Cloud Infrastructure Services

·       Support the technical lead to deliver all
projects relating to datacenter, virtualization and Azure cloud services as per
the project schedule and work plan for entire life cycle from discovery to
implementation.

·       Run Discovery workshops with Teams from
Acquired Entity to collect and analyze information about IT Infra / Azure
applications, O365 services, interfaces and dependencies between various systems,
data models etc., for key decisions on migration approach and plan

·       Lead the discussions with acquired entity
for strategizing the integration and migration of Azure cloud services to
target platform

·       Document key business requirements, and
project deliverables

·       Develop process flows and diagrams on
integration/IT Infra migration approach using Charting software (ie. Visio,
PPT, etc.)

·       Provide regular project updates on to
various internal and external stakeholders about, progress, changes, and
issues.

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams to
achieve implementation of: IT M&A technical / security controls and
integration deliverables. Address IT business as usual (BAU) support
requirements during the integration period.

·       Support project teams to deliver the
technologies and services for both deployment and integration, in the areas of O365
services migration, Microsoft Licensing management, as well as other enterprise
level Azure technologies which may be in use.

·       Participate in IT integration workshops for
newly acquired companies. Collaborate with multiple technology SME and business
stakeholders.

·       Develop standard communication plan and
associated templates to ensure technical integration activities are easily
understood and consumed by end user community. 

Skills/experience specific to this position:

·       Minimum of 5+ years? in Virtualization and
Azure cloud / O365

·       Educated to degree level, ideally in a
technology discipline.

·       Provide support related to general Azure
Configuration and Administration

·       O365 Portal and Administration

·       Microsoft SharePoint and MS Teams
administration

·       MS SharePoint and Teams migration knowledge

·       Implementation and management experience in
IaaS in Azure / AWS

·       O365 email experience and experience in
tenant level migration requirement

·       Enterprise Integration Experience ?
Azure/O365

·       Microsoft Enterprise Manager (Intune)

·       Understanding of Microsoft PowerShell
scripting

Technical Skills

Domain Skills

* Proficiency Legends