Role
- Azure Architect Location
- Pune Work Type
- Hybrid The ideal candidate should be a technically strong hybrid cloud architect who can work across Azure-native infrastructure, Azure VMware Solution, and traditional on-premises data centers without depending entirely on separate teams for routine troubleshooting and technical coordination. The candidate must combine architecture and design capabilities with practical production support experience, understand end-to-end infrastructure dependencies, take ownership of technical issues, and support the project from transition and stabilization through steady-state managed service delivery. Mandatory Technical Skills
• 10+ years of overall IT infrastructure experience, with substantial experience in enterprise infrastructure and virtualization.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Azure infrastructure, cloud architecture, or hybrid cloud operations.
• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud architecture.
• Practical experience with Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and VMware vSphere technologies.
• Good knowledge of on-premises infrastructure, data center operations, and VMware environments.
• Strong understanding of hybrid networking, ExpressRoute, VPN, BGP, DNS, routing, and firewalls.
• Experience with Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, identity integration, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics,



Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and infrastructure security.
• Experience in infrastructure migration, cloud transition, stabilization, and production operations.
• Robust troubleshooting, root cause analysis, capacity management, and performance optimization skills.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, scripting, automation, and configuration management.
• Experience with ITIL-based incident, problem, change, and service management processes.
• Experience supporting enterprise production environments with defined SLAs and operational governance. Key Deliverables
• Azure, AVS, and on-premises current-state assessment and architecture documentation.
• Hybrid cloud HLD/LLD, network topology, and infrastructure dependency mapping.
• Transition and takeover plan, knowledge-transfer records, and operational readiness checklist.
• Infrastructure migration strategy, execution plan, validation criteria, and rollback procedures.
• Stabilization plan and evidence of readiness for SLA commencement.
• Monitoring, alerting, capacity, security, and backup configuration baselines.
• Incident RCA reports, problem management actions, and continuous improvement plans.
• Azure and AVS capacity and cost optimization recommendations.
• Updated operational runbooks, SOPs, configuration records, and escalation procedures.

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