Role: Azure Cloud Architect
Location: Leeds
Work Mode - Hybrid 3 days' work from office
Experience: 10+ Years
Mandatory: Hands on experience in Azure
High level Job Description –
- An architect who can do the role to steer the team to get the Azure landing zone design.
- Once the design is done, we need the Architect to guide our team to build it out.
- We need only cloud-based Architects who are working on cloud.
- Azure Greenfield implementation experience is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Strategy & Architecture:
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architectures on Azure.
- Develop cloud adoption roadmaps and migration strategies for applications and workloads.
- Provide guidance on best practices for Azure Well-Architected Framework (Security, Performance, Reliability, Cost, and Operations).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation:
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep, or Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment and application modernization.
- Security & Compliance:
- Ensure compliance with Azure Security Standards (Zero Trust, NIST, GDPR, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS).
- Implement Azure Policy, Security Center, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel for security monitoring and governance.
- Networking & Connectivity:
- Design and optimize Azure Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, VPNs, NSGs, and Azure Firewall for secure connectivity.
- Integrate hybrid cloud solutions using Azure Arc and hybrid connectivity strategies.
- Monitoring & Resilience:
- Implement observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana.
- Design for high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity (BCP).
- Conduct chaos engineering to test resilience and fault tolerance.
- Collaboration & Leadership:
- Work closely with development, security, and operations teams to drive cloud initiatives.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and architects.
- Support pre-sales and solution architecture discussions with clients.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong expertise in Azure Compute (VMs, AKS, Functions, App Services), Storage (Blob, Files, ADLS, SQL, Cosmos DB), and Networking.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible for infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Kubernetes.
- Expertise in Azure Security, IAM, RBAC, Key Vault, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud.
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization (FinOps) and governance best practices.
- Experience in hybrid and multi-cloud strategies (Azure Arc, AWS, GCP integrations) is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.