Azure Cloud Architect

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.