Azure Infrastructure Architect
Recru · Houston, TX · 1 wk ago
HybridInformation TechnologyContract
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable Azure environments.
- Develop cloud adoption, migration, and modernization roadmaps.
- Establish Azure governance, landing zones, and operational standards.
- Create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps tools.
- Create enterprise GitHub standards, branching strategies, and release processes.
- Support hybrid cloud environments and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
- Enhance resiliency, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
- Implement Azure security, compliance, and identity management using Microsoft Entra ID.
- Partner with leadership and technical teams to drive cloud-first engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, or architecture experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure experience.
- Proven experience building Azure environments from the ground up.
- Strong expertise in Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, and security.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD automation.
- Experience migrating workloads from on-premises environments to Azure.
- Knowledge of cloud governance, security frameworks, and hybrid-cloud architectures.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.