Cloud Architect (Senior Cloud Platform Architect – Azure | AKS)

Our client A leading Retail SaaS product company is looking for a hands-on Cloud Architect to own and evolve the contemporary application platform behind their retail SaaS suite. You'll design and build a container-native platform on Azure that is scalable, stable and manageable at SaaS scale. You'll also be the go-to technical authority for platform engineering decisions.

What you'll do

- Own the design and evolution of AKS as the primary hosting platform, including the migration path from IaaS to containers
- Design cluster topology for SaaS scale: multi-tenancy, node pools, namespaces, HPA/VPA/KEDA auto-scaling
- Architect and own CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, using GitOps practices (Flux/ArgoCD)
- Drive Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or Bicep, plus blue-green and canary release patterns
- Design hub-spoke VNet topology, private endpoints, DNS and egress optimisation
- Define RTO/RPO targets, DR architecture and HA for critical workloads
- Build Azure cost models, lead monthly cost reviews and drive tagging governance
- Write ADRs and contribute to Well-Architected Framework reviews

Good to have

- AWS/GCP architecture exposure (strong advantage)
- Defender for Cloud, RBAC, WAF
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana, APM

Certifications

- Required:



AZ-104 + AZ-305 (Solutions Architect Expert strongly preferred)
- Preferred: CKA/CKAD, AZ-400, AZ-700
- Good to have: AZ-500
- Significant advantage: AWS SA Associate / GCP Professional Cloud Architect

Who you are

A systems thinker who designs with teams rather than handing designs to them. You document decisions, treat cost as a first-class design constraint and mentor L1/L2 engineers. You also pick the right tool for the job, not just the familiar one.

Qualification & Must-have skills

- BE / BTech with 5 – 8 year's experience level and should be hands on technologist.
- Strong experience in AKS design and operations, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes networking, scaling and upgrades
- Production-grade Terraform or Bicep
- Advanced Azure IaaS/PaaS, architecture patterns and landing zones
- CI/CD and GitOps (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, Flux/ArgoCD, Jenkins)
- Hub-spoke networking, NSG, DNS, private endpoints
- DR/HA: Azure Site Recovery, geo-redundancy, backup design

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