FH Azure Platform Architect Four Hands · Austin · Platform & Infrastructure –e 12d ago

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The Azure Platform Architect establishes and maintains the enterprise standards, reference architectures, and Infrastructure as Code foundations that enable Four Hands teams to build on Microsoft Azure securely, consistently, and cost-effectively. This is a hands-on senior level individual contributor role — the architect writes the reference implementations, publishes reusable templates, and serves as the trusted advisor for teams delivering Azure workloads.

Four Hands is at the beginning of its cloud maturity journey. Today, most Azure workloads are provisioned through the portal. This role will lead the transition to a codified, template-driven delivery model — without introducing friction that slows teams down. As the platform maturing, the architect provides operational depth on Azure administration, serving as a peer and backup to the existing Azure Administrator to ensure continuity of service during planned absences and incident response.

• Establish and maintain the Azure landing zone architecture — subscriptions, management groups, network topology, and Microsoft Entra n
• Define and publish enterprise standards for resource naming, tagging, subscription organization, and workload lifecycle
• Own the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) process for platform-level decisions and maintain the decision history
• Chair the periodic architecture review forum and set the agenda for platform standards evolution

• Select and maintain the enterprise Infrastructure as Code standard (Bicep, Terraform, or hybrid), including the rationale for the choice
• Build and maintain a reusable module library for the Azure workload patterns Four Hands deploys most often
• Establish CI/CD patterns for infrastructure delivery, including linting, policy-as-code, drift detection, and secure secrets handling
• Lead the practical migration from portal-based provisioning to codified delivery, prioritizing workloads where the return is highest

• Publish reference architectures for the workload archetypes Four Hands deploys, such as web application with SQL, containerized workload, data pipeline, integration service, and static site
• Maintain a template library that delivery teams can consume with minimal customization
• Document opinionated patterns for cross-cutting needs including secrets management, private networking, hybrid connectivity, monitoring, and backup

• Serve as the primary technical advisor for teams designing new Azure workloads, engaging during design phase rather than after deployment
• Operate in an advisory capacity by default. Formal approval is reserved for a narrow set of high-impact decisions, including new subscription creation, workloads touching PCI-scoped data, cross-tenant integration, and deployments exceeding defined cost thresholds
• Partner with the Security and Compliance team on identity, network, and data control architecture within Azure workloads
• Escalate policy exceptions and cross-team architectural conflicts to the VP of Infrastructure

• Provide backup coverage for…