We are looking for an Azure Solutions Architect with 8+ years of experience who can assess on-premises infrastructure, design secure and scalable Azure solutions, lead cloud migration projects, support pre-sales activities, and guide delivery teams. Strong Azure architecture, migration, automation (Terraform/Bicep), networking, security, and Azure certification (AZ-305) are essential.

Role & Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive assessments of customer on-premises datacenter environments including compute, storage, networking, and application dependencies
- Perform infrastructure discovery using agentless and agent-based tools to collect configuration data, performance metrics, and network dependency mappings
- Analyze existing workloads to determine cloud readiness, migration complexity, and optimal migration strategies (re-host, re-platform, re-factor, re-architect)
- Develop directional business cases including TCO analysis, projected cloud costs, right-sizing recommendations, and ROI projections
- Assess application interdependencies, data flows,



and integration patterns to define migration wave planning
- Evaluate existing licensing models and recommend optimization strategies (BYOL, License Included, etc.)
- Document current-state architecture, identify technical debt, and recommend modernization opportunities

Preferred candidate profile:

1. 8+ years Azure experience
2. Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305
3. Strong Azure Architecture & Migration
4. Experience with Azure Migrate / ASR
5. Azure Landing Zone
6. Strong Azure Networking & Security
7. Terraform / Bicep / ARM
8. Experience leading large-scale migrations (100+ servers)
9. Customer-facing / pre-sales + solutioning
10. Strong stakeholder management

Strongly Preferred
- VMware / vSphere
- Hyper-V
- AKS / Kubernetes
- ExpressRoute
- Entra ID
- Defender for Cloud / Sentinel
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Arc
- Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Cloud Adoption Framework

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📌 Senior Solution Architect-Azure (Chennai)
🏢 Cloud Kinetics
📍 Chennai