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.