Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect (Managed Services)

About the Role

Azure

You will provide hands-on leadership in solution design, mentor teams on best practices, and step in to troubleshooting complex issues. You’ll help multiple customers achieve their modernization, security, and cost optimization goals, acting as a trusted consultant and technical advisor.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Customer Engagement

• Engage directly with one or more customers as a

  Azure

  cloud architecture and design consultant

  , helping define and deliver infrastructure blueprints aligned to business needs.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders to understand current pain points and goals, and architect solutions that improve scalability, security, and cloud ROI.
• Act as a trusted advisor to both customers and the internal delivery team, aligning design decisions to strategic outcomes.

Technical Management & Guidance

• Provide

  hands-on technical guidance

  in architecting cloud-native and hybrid cloud solutions on

  Azure

  , including compute, storage, identity, and network components.
• Translate high-level requirements into low-level infrastructure, networking, security, and application deployment architectures.
• Partner with managed services and DevOps teams to troubleshoot complex issues, implement best practices, and guide decisions around tools, services, and patterns.

Driving Innovation & Rapid Learning

• Evaluate and introduce new cloud-native technologies and services to improve performance, cost, automation, and resilience.
• Support modernization initiatives including AI/ML workloads, containerization, and event-driven architectures.
• Foster a learning culture by enabling teams to explore and adopt modern frameworks and infrastructure patterns.

Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Standardize and document reusable reference architectures, IaC patterns, and design principles across multiple customer engagements.
• Review and continuously improve architecture standards related to cost optimization, reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Participate in architectural governance, code reviews, and incident postmortems to ensure alignment with technical and business objectives.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• 10+ years

  of experience in designing, implementing, or leading cloud infrastructure projects, with strong expertise in

  Azure

• Strong hands-on skills in:

• Terraform (or equivalent IaC tool)

  for modular, scalable infrastructure provisioning.

• DevOps toolchains

  like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins for pipeline automation and deployment governance.

• Monitoring and observability tools

  like CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Solid understanding of

  cloud networking (VPC/VNet design, DNS, VPNs, routing), IAM, encryption

  , and

  security best practices

  .
• Experience designing or supporting

  cloud-native and AI/ML workloads

  is a strong plus.

Leadership & Adaptability

• Proven track record of

  designing cloud architectures across multiple customer environments

  and balancing short-term fixes with long-term roadmap thinking.
• Ability to

  present complex technical decisions

  clearly to both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Passion for learning and evaluating

  new services, patterns, and tools

  , and the ability to guide teams through adoption.

Nice to Have

• Experience with

  Kubernetes, AKS, or EKS

  .
• Familiarity with

  AI/ML infrastructure patterns

  , GPU workloads, or MLOps pipelines.
• Exposure to

  multi-cloud cost management tools

  and security frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST).
• Relevant certifications like

  Azure Solutions Architect – Professional

  ,

  Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect

  , or

  HashiCorp Terraform Associate

  .