Manager - Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant & Multi-Cloud Platform Engineering Leader

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.### ### We are seeking a highly experienced Manager to lead our Microsoft and Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Consulting practice. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with architectural governance, platform engineering, and client-facing consulting responsibilities. You will guide clients in designing, implementing, and operationalizing modern cloud and data infrastructures. You will primarily on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric which includes Microsoft D365, LCS, and Dataverse, with expanded leadership across AWS and GCP environments.

You will architect secure landing zones, implement Infrastructure-as-Code and Policy-as-Code patterns, automate governance processes, and ensure alignment with Well-Architected principles, Zero Trust, and enterprise compliance frameworks. As a leader in our professional services organization, you will mentor teams, drive delivery excellence, and translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure cloud solutions.###
** Key Responsibilities
**** Cloud Architecture & Modern Infrastructure Delivery
*** Lead design and deployment of
** Azure-based
** modern infrastructures, data platforms, and Microsoft Fabric implementations.
* Build scalable, secure
** multi-cloud landing zones
** using
** Terraform**,
** Bicep**, and
** Azure Verified Modules (AVM)**.
* Architect identity, networking, private connectivity, secrets management, backup/DR, and workload hosting across
** Azure, AWS and GCP**.
* Implement
** policy as code
** using Azure Policy, OPA, and benchmark-driven guardrails aligned with
** Azure Security Benchmark
** and
** Well-Architected Frameworks**.
* Guide end-to-end technical delivery across data modernization, cloud migration, and infrastructure platform engineering engagements.
** Governance, Security & Compliance
*** Lead creation of
** Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE)
** and
** Architectural Review Board (ARB)
** workflows, including standards, RACI models, and automated governance.
* Implement governance and compliance pipelines with automated CI/CD checks, IaC validation, drift detection, and continuous compliance reporting.
* Apply Zero Trust architecture patterns across identity, access, networking, and application security.
* Ensure adherence to regulatory and industry compliance frameworks including
** ISO 27001, NIST CSF/800-53, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and FERPA**.
* Strengthen cloud security posture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and other monitoring and alerting systems.
** Platform Engineering, Dev Ops & Git Ops
*** Implement platform engineering best practices across Azure Dev Ops and Git Hub, including
** YAML pipelines**, SBOM/SLSA controls, environment promotion, and artifact governance.
* Enable Git Ops models for infrastructure and application delivery, embedding compliance and cost controls into automated workflows.
* Drive
** SRE practices
** including observability (Datadog), runbook creation, error budgets, and reliability engineering.
** Consulting Leadership & Client Engagement
*** Serve as a principal advisor to clients on cloud transformation strategy, modernization roadmaps, and secure platform architecture.
* Lead consulting engagements, facilitate stakeholder workshops, and present architectural designs and governance frameworks to executive audiences.
* Mentor and guide junior consultants and engineers, promoting delivery excellence across cloud, infrastructure, and data teams.
* Contribute to pre-sales scoping, proposals, solution accelerators, and reusable service offerings.
** Fin Ops & Cost Governance
*** Implement multi-cloud tagging strategies, budgets, chargeback/showback models, and automated rightsizing recommendations.
* Embed cost guardrails into CI/CD pipelines to enforce financial accountability and predictable spend profiles.
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