Azure Cloud Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Hands‑on Cloud Architect to lead the Cloud Migration architecture, design, implementation, and governance of enterprise‑scale Azure and AWS environments. Candidate combines deep technical expertise in Dev Sec Ops  automation to host Application and Data on the Azure cloud.

Candidate should bring in the ability to design a secure, resilient, and compliant architecture aligned to enterprise standards.

• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise and ARM templates, and Git Hub Action pipelines for enterprise customers.
• Hands‑on experience in design, building and managing Dev Sec Ops  pipelines with Harness and Git Hub Actions.
• Design and implement solutions to host applications using services like AKS, ACA, ECS, EC2, Azure VM, App services & function apps on ASP/ASE, SWA, CDNs.
• Experience implementing API management services, Hashi Corp vault integration, implementing Entra  Forge Rock, Gateways, WAFs, Load balancers, message, event and other communication components.
• Data solutions covering Azure SQL MI, Oracle Exadata, data lake, CosmosDB, Synapse analytics, Snowflake on Azure, etc.
• Implement Zero‑Trust, defense in depth architectures using Azure RBAC, Entra IDs, experience working with MFA, MIs, App registrations, etc.
• Strong understanding of implementing encryption for data at rest and in transit, experience implementing mTLS, etc. Working with security testing like DAST, PEN test.
• Exposure to Black Duck vulnerability scanning integration.
• Strong understanding of networking covering segmentation, routing, filtering, etc., DNS, firewalls, proxies, use of appliances, etc.
• Experience in integrating with enterprise certificate management and key management services Hashicorp Vault.
• Experience designing highly resilient architectures, with cross‑region disaster recovery capabilities at service and platform levels, meeting strict RTO/RPO targets.
• Experience designing and implementing cross‑region active‑active solutions, spanning public cloud and on‑premises.
• Experience in both Azure and AWS migrations will be preferred.