About the Role :

We are seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to lead architecture assessments, cloud optimization initiatives, and Well-Architected Reviews for enterprise Azure environments.

This is a customer-facing technical leadership role where you'll work directly with engineering teams to assess cloud environments across cost, reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence. You'll own recommendations end-to-end and partner with customers through implementation and remediation.

In addition to customer engagements, you'll contribute to platform engineering, tooling, technical standards, and mentoring engineers across the Azure practice.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead Azure architecture assessments and Well-Architected Reviews.

- Evaluate customer environments across security, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

- Present findings and recommendations to customer stakeholders and support implementation.

- Validate remediations and drive technical outcomes.

- Define and improve Azure best practices, review methodologies, and internal tooling.

- Design scalable Azure architectures across multi-subscription and multi-tenant environments.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Azure engineers.

- Partner with engineering leadership on technical strategy, hiring, and capability building.

- Contribute hands-on to cloud automation, platform engineering, and tooling development.

Required Skills :

- 7-10 years of Cloud, Platform, or Backend Engineering experience.

- Strong customer-facing consulting, architecture review, or technical delivery experience.

- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including :

1. Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

2. Azure Resource Graph

3. Azure REST APIs

4. Microsoft Entra ID

5. RBAC and Managed Identities

6. Azure Monitor

7. Log Analytics and KQL

8. Azure Activity Logs

9. Azure Cost Management

10. Reservations and Savings Plans

11. Azure Networking, Storage, Compute, and Key Vault

- Strong programming experience with Python.

- Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates.

- Strong troubleshooting and production operations experience.

Preferred Skills :

- FinOps and cloud cost optimization experience.

- Multi-tenant and multi-subscription Azure environments.

- MCA / EA Billing knowledge.

- AKS and Kubernetes.

- Exposure to AWS or GCP.

- Azure Certifications (AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-204).

- Workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Argo Workflows, or Temporal.

- Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams.

What We're Looking For :

- Strong technical ownership and problem-solving mindset.

- Ability to influence customer technical decisions.

- Deep Azure architecture expertise.

- Builder mindset with a focus on automation and reusable solutions.

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

- Willingness to work on-site from Noida.