Position Overview:This role is responsible for defining, designing, and governing cloud architecture standards across the organization to ensure scalable, secure, resilient and cost-effective solutions. This role provides technical leadership across infrastructure, networking, identity, and security. This role will partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering to establish cloud best practices, and translate business requirements into robust, scalable solutions.
Responsibilities- Translate business and application requirements into end-to-end Azure solution across compute, networking, storage, identity, and security.
- Evaluate project architectures for adherence to cloud best practices, security posture, and cost efficiency.
- Evaluate and recommend Azure services, tools, and third-party integrations to meet evolving organizational needs
- Provide architectural oversight for server virtualization platforms, enterprise monitoring and observability, network, security and identity management.
- Champion automation across provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks.
- Define and drive DevOps practices and culture across engineering teams.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Monitor and optimize cloud spending, providing recommendations to maximize cost efficiency without compromising security and reliability.
- Architect and govern enterprise AVD environments, including host pool design, image management, and session host scaling strategies
- Apply expertise across core system design domains including CDN, distributed caching, message bus, API gateway, load balancing and event-driven architecture.
- Define standards for monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery and cost management
- Act as a technical authority and mentor for Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering teams.
- Communicate architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements:- 5-8 years of professional experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or related disciplines
- Deep hands-on experience designing and implementing Azure architecture and landing zones.
- Strong understanding of Azure IaaS and PaaS services (Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, etc.).
- Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
- Hands-on experience authoring production Infrastructure as Code focused on modularity and code reusable pattern.
- Proven track record designing and operating CI/CD pipeline at scale using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, security architecture, and identity management in cloud environments.
- Strong system design background with demonstrated ability to provide solutions spanning distributed systems concepts such as CDN, caching strategies, message bus, API gateways, and load balancing.
- Excellent verbal and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong documentation, decision making, and presentation skills.
- Strategic thinking with strong problem-solving abilities.
Preferred:- Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.
- Highly collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash
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Candidates should be comfortable with an on-site presence to support collaboration, team leadership, and cross-functional partnership. 
