Azure Cloud Lead

Job Title : Azure Cloud Leader

Location : Chennai / Hyderabad / Bangalore

Experience : 8–10 years overall | 5+ years as a Lead

Budget : Open to discuss

Notice Period : Immediate joiner / Serving notice with less than 60 days / Notice is less than 60 days

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Cloud Lead to oversee cloud engineering initiatives and lead teams in building secure, scalable, and resilient Azure environments. The ideal candidate will guide solution design, ensure best practices, and drive cloud adoption across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and management of Azure cloud solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity, and security.
• Provide technical leadership to cloud engineers; review solutions, guide implementations, and enforce architectural standards.
• Implement and manage Azure landing zones, governance policies, and cloud security best practices.
• Oversee Azure services such as VMs, VNets, App Services, AKS, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Monitor, Defender, and more.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization projects, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Implement automation and IaC using Terraform, ARM / Bicep, and Azure DevOps CI / CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with security, DevOps, and networking teams to ensure secure and consistent cloud operations.
• Monitor cloud resources, troubleshoot issues, and drive continuous improvements.

Required Skills & Experience

Preferred Qualifications

What We Offer