Role Summary

As an Azure Infrastructure & DevOps Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure solutions with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code at the core. You will be the technical authority on cloud migration, landing zone design, platform engineering, and DevOps transformation engagements — and as an early member of our India practice, you will also support pre-sales, solution shaping, and capability building.

Key Responsibilities

Solution architecture & delivery

• Architect end-to-end Azure infrastructure solutions: landing zones (CAF/Enterprise-Scale), networking, identity, security, and governance
• Lead datacenter-to-Azure migration programs, including discovery, assessment, wave planning, and cutover
• Design hybrid and multi-region architectures covering connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN), resilience, DR, and backup strategies
• Define and enforce Well-Architected Framework standards across cost, security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence
• Establish "everything as code" delivery:



all infrastructure provisioned and managed through IaC (Bicep, Terraform) with no click-ops in production
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, including automated validation, what-if/plan gates, and approval workflows

Pre-sales & business development

• Support RFP/RFI responses with solution architecture, effort estimation, and delivery approach
• Lead client workshops, technical presentations, and proof-of-concept engagements
• Shape Microsoft-funded engagements (assessments, pilots) and work with Microsoft field teams on co-sell opportunities

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of infrastructure experience, with 5+ years architecting solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Deep expertise across Azure IaaS/PaaS: compute, networking (hub-spoke, Virtual WAN, firew

📌 Azure Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Avanade
📍 Bengaluru