Azure Cloud Architect

Azure Cloud Architect

Duration : 12 months

Location : Mahwah, NJ -Onsite

• The Azure Cloud Architect designs and implements secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD platform capabilities to support software delivery at enterprise scale.
• They develop reusable Infrastructure-as-Code, establish pipeline orchestration patterns, and integrate governance, security, and observability across Azure environments.
• They partner with engineering teams to enable reliable deployments, optimize performance and cost, and ensure high availability of platform services.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture with 5+ on Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience architecting CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and pipeline orchestration at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on with Terraform (preferred) or Bicep, GitOps (Flux/Argo), Azure networking (VNETs, Private Link, App Gateway/WAF), and AKS.
• Strong security background: Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, secrets rotation.
• Observability expertise: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, Prometheus/Grafana.
• Container platform experience: AKS (node pools, autoscaling, Ingress/Nginx/AGIC, CSI, CNI), container registry (ACR), Helm/Kustomize.
• Solid understanding of software delivery lifecycle and platform engineering patterns (self-service golden paths, reusable templates, internal developer platforms).

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer, DevOps Engineer Expert).Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), APIM, Event-driven architectures (Event Grid/Service Bus), Managed SQL/MI, Redis, Cosmos DB.
• Supply chain security (SLSA, signed containers, SBOMs, OPA/Conftest, admission controllers).
  Experience with Windows and Linux workloads in AKS; hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute, VPN, Private DNS).
  Familiarity with NIST, SOC2, ISO 27001 and enterprise change management.