Role Summary

You will serve as the lead Azure Cloud Architect responsible for designing and implementing a Zero Trustaligned security architecture across a multisubscription Azure enterprise setting. This role focuses on securing AI Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft Fabric, and the broader Azure tenant using industry frameworks including NIST 80053, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and Insurance Regulator (NAIC Model 668 / NYDFS 500) requirements.

You will define the security blueprint, enforce governance, design identity boundaries, implement policydriven controls, and ensure all AI and cloud workloads meet enterprise and regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Azure Tenant & Zero Trust Architecture
- Architect and implement a Zero Trust security model across identity, network, data, and workload layers.
- Design Azure management group hierarchy, subscription strategy, and landing zones aligned to NIST/ISO controls.
- Implement Conditional Access, PIM, Identity Governance, and segmented identity boundaries for developers, admins, and workloads.




- Lead the rollout of Azure Policy, policy initiatives, RBAC, and custom role definitions for leastprivilege enforcement.
- Establish secure-by-default patterns for all cloud services.

2. AI Foundry Security & Governance
- Architect secure environments for AI Foundry, including:
- Model training and serving isolation, Data access governance, Key Vault integration
- Private endpoints and network isolation
- Implement AI safety, lineage, and audit controls aligned with regulatory expectations.
- Define secure patterns for prompt flows, agents, vector stores, and model endpoints.

3. AKS Security Architecture
- Design hardened AKS clusters with:
- Azure CNI, network policies, pod identity, OPA/Gatekeeper, secretless workloads
- Workload identity with Entra ID
- Private cluster, Azure Firewall, WAF, DDoS Protection
- Implement Zero Trust for microservices, including: mTLS, API gateway patterns,Service

📌 Azure Cloud Architect (Delhi)
🏢 Maaze Underwriting Solutions
📍 Delhi