A global IT services and consulting company multinational information technology (IT), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The Client offers a wide array of IT services, including application development, infrastructure management, and business process outsourcing.

Their consulting services span business and technology, while their digital solutions focus on transformation and user experience design. It excels in data and intelligence services, emphasizing analytics, AI, and machine learning.

Additionally, their cybersecurity, cloud, and application services round out a comprehensive portfolio designed to meet the diverse needs of businesses worldwide.

About The Job :

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Architect with strong expertise in designing, architecting, and governing enterprise-grade cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, with secondary exposure to AWS cloud services.

The role will focus heavily on SAP S/4HANA on Azure architectures, including high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, security, modernization, and performance optimization.

The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on architectural experience across Azure IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, Containers, Networking, Storage, Security, and SAP-certified infrastructure platforms while driving cloud transformation initiatives aligned with enterprise governance and well-architected frameworks.

Essential Job Functions :

Responsibilities & Technical Skills :

- Minimum 12+ years of experience in IT industry and 6+ years as technical/solution architect having solid understanding of cloud IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, DBaaS services.

- Design and build cloud-native solutions, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions that are highly available, scalable, secure, performant and cost optimized using well-architected frameworks and guidelines.

- Strong hands-on experience architecting and implementing solutions across Azure IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, and Data/Analytics platforms, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, performance, and cost optimization.

- Design and govern highly available and resilient architectures for Azure IaaS and PaaS workloads using Availability Zones, regional redundancy, and platform-native resiliency features and align RTO/RPO objectives with business requirements.

- Provide architectural and platform support for Azure analytics services including Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Lake Storage Gen2, Storage Accounts, SQL Database, App Services, APIM and Microsoft Fabric etc. with all relevant integrations & RBAC.

- Azure Compute : Architect and design compute platforms using Azure Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, App Services, Azure Functions, and AKS, aligned with workload performance and availability requirements.

- Azure Networking : Design enterprise and hybrid networking using Azure VNets, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute and Front Door, ensuring secure and reliable connectivity.

- Azure Storage : Define scalable storage architectures using Azure Storage Accounts (Blob, File), Managed Disks, Azure Backup, and geo-redundancy options (LRS/GRS) with security and cost optimization.

- Define architecture with latest technology advancement for application modernization, migration, re-platforming, and re-architecture initiatives.

- Hands on experience in container deployment patterns, platform integration, and governance within Azure environments.

- Fair knowledge on Windows OR RHEL OS on Infrastructure applications like Active Directory, File Server, Proxy & Terminal Server and OS level clustering & load balancing etc.

- Good to have architectural experience on equivalent AWS services as well like EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, Route 53, RDS, Cloud Front & Glacier etc.

- Good to have knowledge on other supporting tools / technologies : MS Visio, Azure AD Connect, DevOps etc. and also on any of the automation scripting knowledge Power Shell, Python, Yaml.

- Proven experience architecting and deploying SAP S/4HANA workloads on Microsoft Azure, aligned with SAP and Microsoft reference architectures.

- Design and implement high availability using Azure Availability Zones, SAP ASCS/ERS clustering, and HANA System Replication.

- Architect disaster recovery solutions leveraging cross-region deployments, Azure Site Recovery, and SAP-supported DR patterns.

- Define and size Azure infrastructure including certified VM SKUs, premium storage, and low-latency networking for SAP workloads.

- Ensure secure connectivity, identity integration, and compliance with SAP, Azure, and enterprise governance standards.

- Lead resilience testing, failover validation, and performance optimization for business-critical SAP landscapes.

- Strong expertise in Windows Server and Linux (RHEL/SUSE) operating systems, including OS-level tuning, and hardening to support SAP S/4HANA performance and stability requirements.

- Hands-on experience with cluster configurations such as Windows Failover Clustering and Linux Pacemaker, including shared storage and fencing concepts, to ensure high availability for SAP central services and databases.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree or Master's degree and Minimum 12+ years of experience in IT industry and 6+ years as technical/solution architect.

About VARITE :

VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA.

VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Opportunity Employer :

VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.