Principal Azure Cloud Architect / Principal Engineer

Job Title : Principal Azure Cloud Architect / Principal Engineer (20+ Years Experience)

About the Role

We are seeking a technical visionary Principal Azure Cloud Architect with 20+ years of experience to lead the transformation, shaping and executing the end-to-end cloud strategy. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with engineering, security, product management, and business stakeholders to drive a roadmap that powers the organization's next version of the cloud platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and design delivery of enterprise-grade Azure solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure and resilient.
• Assess the organization’s current infrastructure, applications, and business requirements to determine the optimal cloud architecture.
• Lead the development process and operations and identify setbacks and shortcomings that need to be improved and mentor the team to promote a culture of engineering excellence.
• Develop and execute cloud migration strategies with minimal operational disruption.
• Participate in architectural reviews, threat modelling and risk mitigation planning.
• Deep analytical skills to identify issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Manage proof of concepts, exploratory projects to identify, evaluate and eventually adopt most suitable Cloud Computing (Public Clouds, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) model for the customer with respect to the customer’s business context.
• Collaborate with cloud computing colleagues inside and outside the industry to define Cloud Computing adoption models, best practices, use cases, guidance documents.
• Create architectures that can scale seamlessly to accommodate growth and fluctuating workloads, leveraging services like auto-scaling, serverless computing, and distributed databases.
• Design architectures with redundancy, fault tolerance, and high availability to minimize downtime and ensure continuous service delivery.
• Evaluate the offerings of cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Azure, AWS, GCP selecting services like compute instances, storage options, databases, and networking components that best suit the organization’s needs.
• Develop Self-Service APIs, CI / CD Pipelines, Terraform Code for Infrastructure as a Code and Terraform Modules for Azure Support Service and Business Units Application Service Automation.
• Azure Cloud Infrastructure (IAAS, PAAS and SAS) Support, Consultations, Services Onboarding, Innovations and Cost Optimization initiatives.
• Security integration of every aspect of the infrastructure, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, network security, and compliance controls.

Key Requirements

Nice to Have

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Azure Devops Engineer Expert

Azure Security Engineer Associate