Azure Cloud Architect

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Job Title: Azure Cloud Architect
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/2 days remote)
Duration: 12 Months (with potential for extension)
Start Date: August 12, 2026
Hourly Rate: W2 $60–$70/hour
Application Deadline: July 30, 2026

Overview:

We are seeking an Azure Cloud Architect who will support our NYC client by developing scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient Azure cloud architecture, governance frameworks, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps. This role partners with business users and cross-functional technology teams to assess requirements, design hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, guide engineering teams, and support the migration and integration of on-premises systems with cloud services. The architect will also advance Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, cloud security, networking, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and FinOps practices across the organization.

Duties:

• Develop scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient Azure cloud architectures aligned with organizational objectives and cybersecurity policies.
• Engage with business users and technology teams to assess requirements and translate them into actionable hybrid and multi-cloud architecture designs.
• Evaluate application cloud readiness and create migration strategies, roadmaps, technical standards, governance models, and implementation playbooks.
• Design Azure solutions across compute, storage, data analytics, databases, serverless services, containers, networking, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Guide and augment cloud engineering teams during implementation, troubleshooting, migration, integration, and operational support activities.
• Design and govern multi-subscription Azure tenant structures, access controls, policies, resource organization, and platform standards.
• Produce clear architectural documentation and Microsoft Visio diagrams for technical and business stakeholders.
• Develop and promote Infrastructure-as-Code and automation practices using Terraform, Azure ARM, Pulumi, Azure Cloud Shell, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
• Design and support CI/CD pipelines and configuration management automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Implement cloud security controls and compliance practices, including IAM, RBAC, network security, managed identities, Key Vault, encryption, Defender for Cloud, and zero-trust principles.
• Develop backup and disaster recovery strategies that meet regulatory requirements and defined recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Optimize Azure environments for performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency using Azure Monitor, Azure Resource Health, Azure Advisor, Cost Management and Billing, and FinOps practices.
• Design and optimize Azure networking and hybrid connectivity, including vNets, hub-and-spoke architecture, peering, Application Gateway, load balancers, Traffic Manager, VPN, and ExpressRoute.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, networking, monitoring, logging, and service-related issues using Azure-native and enterprise monitoring tools.
• Collaborate with Network, Server, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Finance, Procurement, and engineering teams and communicate complex technical concepts in business-friendly language.
• Participate in cloud strategy discussions, architectural reviews, planning sessions, and technology decision-making activities.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including designing Azure architectures, standards, governance models, and policies.
• 4+ years of experience with hybrid on-premises/cloud environments, multi-cloud interoperability, and on-premises-to-cloud integrations.
• 4+ years of cloud networking experience, including vNet design, hub-and-spoke architecture, peering, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, Traffic Manager, VPN, ExpressRoute, and hybrid connectivity. …