Azure Cloud Architect

Location: Houston, TX (onsite)

Duration: 1 year

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural design and implementation using Microsoft WAF and best practices
• Deliver platform support services for our Azure Greenfield environment
• Develop and document reusable Azure Greenfield reference architecture patterns for solutions
• Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans, facilitate testing with stakeholders, and document results
• Design and optimize landing zone architectures and platform services, including development of new archetypes
• Define and apply cloud architecture standards, patterns, and best practices
• Evaluate and recommend Azure services for Greenfield adoption, including participation in sanctioning and governance of these services
• Conduct architecture reviews for new workloads and cloud migrations
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable cloud solutions
• Develop governance frameworks, technical controls, and platform guardrails
• Collaborate with Security, Identity Management, Platform Engineering, and Governance teams
• Develop reusable architecture blueprints and deployment patterns

Requirements

• Azure Cloud Architecture (mandatory)
• Performance Monitoring – Cloud Native (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Cloud Monitor) (good to have)
• Testing (good to have)
• Knowledgeable and experienced with GuardRight and ShiftLeft practices
• Knowledgeable of Azure Networking and familiar with Hub and Spoke deployments using Azure VWan
• Basic knowledge of implementation of IAC using Terraform, Azure CLI
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Wiz