Cloud Architect

Job summary

This hands-on Cloud Architect leads the architecture, governance, and cost-effective operation of a Microsoft Azure environment. The role designs and reviews cloud solutions, builds reusable Infrastructure as Code templates, improves cost management, and establishes governance and security controls. It also supports demonstrable compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, while guiding project teams, IT Security, and IT Operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture experience, including hands-on experience designing and operating Azure environments.
• Deep Azure architecture expertise in landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security.
• Experience building reusable Infrastructure as Code templates with Bicep, Terraform, or ARM.
• Strong understanding of Azure cost drivers, budgets, alerts, reservations, savings plans, and Azure Advisor.
• Experience with Azure Policy, management groups, role-based access control, and tagging and naming standards.
• Experience implementing controls and maintaining audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.
• Ability to translate architecture into operational requirements and support models.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with GxP and GAMP5 and experience supporting regulated, validated cloud systems.
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid architectures, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, FinOps, serverless architectures, microservices, or application migration and modernization is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for new and existing Azure projects and review solution designs.
• Analyze infrastructure and applications to identify optimization, cost reduction, and cloud migration opportunities.
• Improve Azure cost management through budgets, alerts, Advisor reviews, and reservation strategies.
• Build and maintain reusable project templates and Infrastructure as Code modules.
• Identify and resolve architecture gaps, risks, and blockers across the Azure tenant.
• Develop and maintain cloud governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards.
• Set and promote consistent tagging, naming, and subscription structure standards.
• Work with security and workload teams to implement compliance controls and maintain audit evidence.
• Oversee deployments for scalability, reliability, and tested disaster recovery.
• Guide and mentor development and operations teams on cloud architecture and cloud-native design.

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