Senior Cloud Architect (#291)

Overview As a Senior Cloud Architect, you’ll help design and deliver secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient Azure solutions that support critical digital transformation. You’ll collaborate with teams across the business to translate requirements into cloud architectures, contribute to migrations and hands‑on deployments, and ensure smooth transitions into operations. Working with cross‑functional partners, automation tools, and governance frameworks, you’ll help shape reliable cloud services that make a meaningful impact for our clients and communities. Responsibilities: • Contribute towards defining and maintaining cloud architecture standards and design strategies. • Engage with internal stakeholders to capture business requirements, translating them into secure, scalable, cost‑efficient cloud solutions. • Assess current cloud technologies and ensure alignment with business goals and efficiency targets. • Facilitate smooth transition of Digital/GTM solutions from sandbox or development environments into production, ensuring proper governance, deployment practices, and handoff to operations. • Lead or guide deployment of complex cloud solutions with hands-on ownership where needed and ensure smooth operational transition. • Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and managed partners to deliver consistent, standardized cloud services. • Produce architecture documents, standards, policies, and operational handover materials. • Participate in governance forums (architecture review, change review). • Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements and implement them in accordance with existing enterprise automation framework & tooling • Interface with operation teams to ensure seamless transition of cloud services into operations • Oversee cloud migration projects, including planning, execution, and optimization. • Review new cloud offerings of interest for organizational alignment

Technical Requirements: • Extensive experience with a wide range of Cloud (Azure) services, such as Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Batch, Container App Environments, etc. • Strong background in cloud architecture best practices, including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery • Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, such as Cloud Migrate and database migration services. • Expertise in Azure architecture, automation (IaC, CI/CD), identity, networking, and security best practices. • Extensive experience in IaC and automation tooling including, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud init, Azure CLI, Python/Powershell, Git, GitHub Action Workflows, Docker • Understanding of general & cloud-specific networking stack • Experience in building and implementing Azure Policies • Experience integrating cost‑governance (FinOps) considerations into architecture decisions. • Strong background in producing high‑ and low‑level designs across multi‑vendor cloud ecosystems. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.