Sr. Azure Cloud Architect

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What You'll DoIn this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

KLA is seeking a hands-on Senior Azure Cloud Architect to join the Cloud & AI Platform organization. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure, while supporting hybrid integration with on-premises infrastructure and other cloud platforms.

The successful candidate will combine strong Azure architecture knowledge with practical engineering experience across cloud networking, identity, security, automation, platform services, Kubernetes, monitoring, and cost optimization. The architect will work closely with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Application Development, Data, Engineering, and Business teams to deliver scalable, resilient, secure, and supportable cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and support scalable, highly available, resilient, and secure solutions using Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS services.

Design and maintain Azure landing-zone capabilities, including management-group and subscription organization, Azure Policy, role-based access control, tagging, resource standards, and governance controls

Lead and support Azure migration and modernization activities, including re-hosting, re-platforming, refactoring, and integration of on-premises workloads

Architect Azure networking solutions using Virtual Networks, subnets, network security groups, route tables, load balancers, Private Link, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, Express Route, and DNS services

Design network segmentation and micro-segmentation patterns aligned with Zero Trust principles, workload isolation requirements, and approved traffic flows

Implement identity-first security using Microsoft Entra , managed identities, RBAC, least-privilege access, Privileged Identity Management, Conditional Access, Key Vault, and secrets-management practices

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Azure Bicep/ARM templates, with reusable modules, source control, peer review, and automated validation

Architect and support Azure Kubernetes Service, containerized workloads, registries, ingress, workload identity, policy enforcement, monitoring, and platform lifecycle activities

Configure and support Azure resources including virtual machines, storage accounts, web applications, databases, integration services, AI resources, and platform services

Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel integrations.

Optimize Azure services for availability, reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency; support tagging, budgets, utilization reviews, and Fin Ops practices

Support Azure AI and Azure OpenAI solutions by applying approved identity, networking, data-protection, logging, and governance patterns

Participate in architecture reviews, security reviews, threat assessments, disaster-recovery planning, operational-readiness reviews, and production troubleshooting

Create and maintain architecture diagrams, solution designs, implementation guides, standards, runbooks, and operational documentation

Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, application, data, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into practical cloud solutions

Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to cloud engineers and partner teams while remaining directly involved in implementation and issue resolution.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering,…