Responsibilities :

- Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.
- Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
- Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
- Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.
- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Azure with clients, at conferences, and online.
- Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
- Lead planning, status, and standup meetings.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Qualifications :

- 5+ years of Azure experience is a must.
- Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification required, other Microsoft, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications a plus.
- Must have played 2+ years as an Azure Architect.
- Lead cloud architecture strategy, requirements gathering, solution definition, and technical discovery for Azure transformation initiatives.
- Experience in building, architecting, designing,



and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Lead architecture workshops and translate business requirements into target-state architectures, solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation roadmaps.
- Design and implement Azure Landing Zones, governance, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and operational frameworks.
- Extensive experience with security (Zero Trust) and networking (Azure Vnets, Hub-and-Spoke, Express route, VPN, Entra ID etc.) in cloud environments.
- Solid experience designing and advising on CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, with hands-on understanding of Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience in containerising workloads using Kubernetes/AKS, Docker, Helm, and Azure Container Registry.
- Experience with structured Cloud Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premises-to-Azure migration deployments and roadmaps.
- Develop migration strategies and roadmaps covering discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, migration, modernization, and optimization.
- Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

📌 66degrees - Azure Cloud Architect (India)
🏢 66degrees
📍 India