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 settings 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:
8+ years Azure experience
Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305
Strong Azure Architecture & Migration
Experience with Azure Migrate / ASR
Azure Landing Zone
Solid Azure Networking & Security
Terraform / Bicep / ARM
Experience leading large-scale migrations (100+ servers)
Customer-facing / pre-sales + solutioning
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

Positive to Have
Multi-cloud AWS/GCP
Azure AI
Azure Data services
FinOps
Azure VMware Solution
Compliance knowledge

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