Azure Cloud Architect

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Hands-on Cloud Architect to lead the Cloud Migration architecture, design, implementation, and governance of enterprise-scale Azure and

AWS environments. Candidate combines deep technical expertise in DevSecOps automation to host Application and Data on the Azure cloud.

Candidate should bring in the ability to design a secure, resilient, and compliant architectures aligned to enterprise standards.

Job Description

· Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise, and ARM templates, and GitHub action pipelines for enterprise customers.

· Hands on experience in Design, build and manage DevSecOps pipelines with Harness and GitHub Actions.

· Design and implement solutions to host applications using services like AKS, ACA, ECS, EC2, Azure VM app services & function apps on ASP/ASE, SWA, CDNs

· Experience implementing API management services, HashiCorp vault integration, implementing Entra ID and ForgeRock, Gateways, WAFs, Load balancers, message, event and other communication components

· Data solutions covering Azure SQL MI, Oracle Exadata, data lake, CosmosDB, Synapse analytics, Snowflake on azure, etc.

· Implement Zero-Trust, defense in depth architectures using Azure RBAC, Entra IDs, experience working with MFA, – MIs, App registrations, etc.

· Strong understanding of implementing encryption for data at rest and in transit, experience implementing mTLS, etc,. Working with security testing like DAST, PEN test,

· Exposure to Black Duck vulnerability scanning integration · Strong understanding of networking covering segmentation, routing, filtering, etc., DNS, Firewalls, Proxies, use of appliances, etc.

· Experience in integrating with enterprise certificate management and key management services Hashicorp Vault

· Experience designing highly resilient architectures, with cross-region disaster recovery capabilities at service and platform levels, meeting strict RTO/RPO targets.

· Experience designing and implementing cross-region active-active solutions, spanning public cloud and on-premises.

· Experience in both Azure and AWS migrations will be preferred.