Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities

• Translate business and application requirements into end-to-end Azure solution across compute, networking, storage, identity, and security.
• Evaluate project architectures for adherence to cloud best practices, security posture, and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate and recommend Azure services, tools, and third-party integrations to meet evolving organizational needs.
• Provide architectural oversight for server virtualization platforms, enterprise monitoring and observability, network, security and identity management.
• Champion automation across provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks.
• Define and drive DevOps practices and culture across engineering teams.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Monitor and optimize cloud spending, providing recommendations to maximize cost efficiency without compromising security and reliability.
• Architect and govern enterprise AVD environments, including host pool design, image management, and session host scaling strategies.
• Define standards for monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery and cost management.
• Act as a technical authority and mentor for Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering teams.
• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of professional experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or related disciplines.
• Deep hands-on experience designing and implementing Azure architecture and landing zones.
• Strong understanding of Azure IaaS and PaaS services (Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, etc.).
• Hands-on experience authoring production Infrastructure as Code focused on modularity and code reusable patterns.
• Proven track record designing and operating CI/CD pipeline at scale using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, security architecture, and identity management in cloud environments.
• Strong system design background with demonstrated ability to provide solutions spanning distributed systems concepts such as CDN, caching strategies, message bus, API gateways, and load balancing.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong documentation, decision making, and presentation skills.
• Strategic thinking with strong problem-solving abilities.

Preferred

• Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.
• Highly collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.