Cloud Architect

Job summary

The Cloud Architect leads the design, governance, and cost-effective operation of Microsoft Azure environments, establishing cloud foundations that support business needs and regulated pharmaceutical work. The role reviews and improves Azure architectures, builds reusable Infrastructure as Code templates, optimizes cloud spending, and implements governance and compliance controls for frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA. It also guides IT Operations, development, and security teams on reliable, scalable, and supportable cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture experience, including hands-on Azure design and operations.
• Experience in a cloud architecture or senior technical role.
• Deep Azure expertise across 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 or savings plans, and Azure Advisor.
• Experience enforcing cloud governance with Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, and tagging and naming standards.
• Experience implementing controls and maintaining audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.
• Ability to translate architecture designs 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.
• Preferred: experience with multi-cloud or hybrid architectures, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, FinOps, serverless architectures, microservices, or enterprise application migration and modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design reviews for new and existing Azure projects.
• Assess infrastructure and applications for optimization, cost reduction, and cloud migration opportunities.
• Improve Azure cost management through budgets, alerts, Advisor reviews, and reservation strategies.
• Build and maintain reusable deployment 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.
• Define and promote tagging, naming, and subscription structure standards.
• Work with security and workload teams to implement and evidence compliance controls.
• Oversee deployments and ensure scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery are implemented and tested.
• Guide and mentor development and operations teams on cloud architecture and cloud-native design.

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