Responsibilities :

- Design end-to-end Azure cloud architecture and Landing Zones.

- Develop cloud reference architectures, standards, and best practices.

- Lead cloud adoption, migration, and modernization initiatives.

- Assess existing infra and recommend Azure-based solutions.

- Define Azure security architecture identity, access, data protection.

- Implement governance via Azure Policy, RBAC, Blueprints, Management Groups.

- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, audit, and SRE standards.

- Collaborate with security teams on threat modelling and risk mitigation.

- Architect CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

- Drive IaC adoption using Terraform, ARM, or Bicep.

- Enable cloud automation, monitoring, and operational excellence.

- Champion DevOps and SRE best practices across teams.

- Serve as technical authority and mentor for cloud and engineering teams.

- Lead architecture reviews and technical decision forums.

- Collaborate with application teams, enterprise architects, and stakeholders.

- Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.

Qualifications :

- 12+ years in cloud architecture design and deployment.

- Proven enterprise-scale Azure architecture experience.

- Hands-on with Azure Landing Zone design and cloud migrations.

- Azure services: AKS, App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB.

- IaC: Terraform (preferred), ARM, Bicep.

- Azure networking and security stack.

- Azure governance: Policy, RBAC, Blueprints, Management Groups.

- CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.

- Cloud observability, monitoring, and SRE tooling.