Job Summary

Lead the hands on design and validation of cloud architectures across Azure's core services with a focus on scalability, resilience, disaster recovery and compliance. Translate complex business and security requirements into transparent actionable cloud designs. Develop and maintain detailed architecture diagrams, standards and technical documentation that guide engineers and stakeholders. Define and enforce cloud governance frameworks, policies, RBAC tagging standards, cost controls and compliance guardrails. Provide architectural oversight on cloud deployments, directly reviewing and validating configurations to ensure designs are implemented correctly and consistently. Own Azure cost optimization practice, reserved instance savings plan strategy, chargeback tagging models and ongoing FinOps governance. Deep expertise across Microsoft Azure core services, networking, compute, storage, identity, databases, monitoring and security. Hands on configuration and troubleshooting experience with Azure native IaC and automation tooling (ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions). Serve as a trusted technical advisor to leadership, project teams and enterprise client stakeholders on architecture and best practices. Around 10 to 15 years of experience in cloud architecture roles. Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or equivalent preferred. Good hands on in implementing AI Agentic based use cases.

Responsibilities

- Lead the hands on design and validation of cloud architectures across Azure's core services with a focus on scalability, resilience, disaster recovery and compliance
- Translate complex business and security requirements into clear actionable cloud designs
- Develop and maintain detailed architecture diagrams,



standards and technical documentation that guide engineers and stakeholders
- Define and enforce cloud governance frameworks, policies, RBAC tagging standards, cost controls and compliance guardrails
- Provide architectural oversight on cloud deployments, directly reviewing and validating configurations to ensure designs are implemented correctly and consistently
- Own Azure cost optimization practice, reserved instance savings plan strategy, chargeback tagging models and ongoing FinOps governance
- Deep expertise across Microsoft Azure core services, networking, compute, storage, identity, databases, monitoring and security
- Hands on configuration and troubleshooting experience with Azure native IaC and automation tooling (ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to leadership, project teams and enterprise client stakeholders on architecture and best practices
- Around 10 to 15 years of experience in cloud architecture roles
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or equivalent preferred
- Good hands on in implementing AI Agentic based use cases

Secondary Skills

- Collaborating with DevSecOps engineers application engineers and business stakeholders on solution delivery
- Embedding automation and integrating security practices into CI/CD pipelines
- Advocating Azure best practices and staying current with platform roadmap changes
- Supporting audit security and compliance reviews with architecture level input
- Contributing to technical vendor tool evaluations for the cloud platform

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