JOB TITLE - Senior / Lead Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

- Experience: 10 14+ Years
- Location: Nandanam, Chennai

Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Senior / Lead Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Architect with strong expertise in Azure architecture, infrastructure engineering, cloud migration, security, governance, and automation.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience designing secure, scalable, highly available Azure environments , along with strong exposure to infrastructure automation and multi-cloud architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Mandatory / Preferred Skills Certifications

- Azure Architecture & Infrastructure
- Design and implement enterprise-grade Azure Landing Zones.
- Develop scalable network architectures, including Hub-and-Spoke topology.
- Design subscription, management group, and Azure policy structures.
- Apply Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Azure Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Design High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions with defined RTO/RPO requirements.
- Implement and manage failover strategies using Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates.
- Security, Identity & Governance
- Design hybrid identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Active Directory.
- Implement Zero Trust, RBAC, PIM, and identity governance practices.




- Design secure network segmentation and access controls.
- Implement Azure Key Vault for secrets and certificate management.
- Monitor and improve cloud security posture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
- Ensure Azure environments follow enterprise security and compliance standards.
- Cloud Migration & Multi-Cloud
- Lead end-to-end cloud migration initiatives, including:

- Discovery and assessment

- Application dependency mapping

- Migration planning

- DNS cutover

- Rollback planning
- Post-migration validation
- Hands-on experience with Azure Migrate, VMware HCX, or similar migration technologies.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and application migration strategies.
- Experience with Azure-to-GCP or multi-cloud environments will be a key differentiator.

- Microsoft Azure Architecture

- Azure Landing Zones
- Hub-and-Spoke Networking
- Terraform / Bicep / ARM Templates

- Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

- Azure Migrate
- Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD

- Active Directory
- RBAC & PIM

- Zero Trust Security

- Microsoft Defender for Cloud

- Azure Key Vault

- HA/DR Architecture

- Cloud Migration
- Multi-Cloud Architecture

- GCP
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Mandatory / Strongly Preferred
- GCP Skilled Cloud Architect Preferred / Added Advantage

📌 Senior / Lead Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Architect (Chennai)
🏢 SWITS DIGITAL Private
📍 Chennai