Roles & responsibilities
Role Purpose
Design, build, and govern secure, resilient, and scalable cloud/hybrid infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, integrating on‑prem and platform services. The role blends Infrastructure Architecture & Operations with Infrastructure Security & Compliance, ensuring Zero Trust, policy‑as‑code, and operational excellence across identity, network, compute, containers (AKS), storage, backup, observability, and disaster recovery
Key Responsibilities
A. Infrastructure Architecture & Operations
Own the Azure landing zone (CAF‑aligned) and hub‑spoke network design (ExpressRoute/VPN, Private DNS, Private Endpoints).
Define standards for compute, storage, databases, and platform services (VM/VMSS, images, disks, files, backups, SQL/MI).
AKS Platform Ownership (Mandatory):
Design AKS clusters (node pools, taints/tolerations, zoning, multi‑region DR), Azure CNI/Overlay networking, and ingress (NGINX/App Gateway).
Establish lifecycle practices for upgrades, autoscaling (HPA/VPA, Cluster Autoscaler), image management (ACR), and workload placement.




Integrate platform services (Key Vault, Managed Identities, Private Link) and ensure operational SLOs.
Lead modernization/migration for Windows/Linux workloads and data platforms; ensure resilience, cost efficiency, and operational readiness.
Establish BCDR strategy—RTO/RPO targets, automated recovery runbooks, DR rehearsals, and evidence packs.
Build observability: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, synthetic checks, and incident runbooks.
Drive FinOps: tagging, showback/chargeback, rightsizing, reservations/savings plans, and lifecycle policies.
B. Infrastructure Security & Compliance
Implement Zero Trust across identity, device, network, and data: RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access/MFA, workload identities.
Design network security: NSG/ASG, Azure Firewall/WAF, micro‑segmentation, DDoS Protection, egress control, DNS security.
AKS Security (Mandatory):
Entra ID/RBAC integration, Pod Security A

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