About the role
8 to 12 years of overall IT experience including significant handson experience in designing implementing and supporting enterprise Azure environments
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Infrastructure Lead Architect to lead the architecture implementation governance and operational support of enterprise Azure solutions The role requires strong expertise in Azure Monitor Azure Blob Storage Azure Infrastructure Services Azure API Management Azure Database Services and Azure Kubernetes Service
Key Responsibilities
1 Azure SME
Lead the architecture and implementation of enterprisescale Azure infrastructure solutions
Translate business application availability security and operational requirements into Azure solution designs
Define reference architectures engineering standards deployment patterns and cloud operational guidelines
Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical recommendations for new implementations and modernization initiatives
Guide Azure engineers and support teams throughout design deployment migration and operational support
Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex Azure infrastructure and platform issues
Ensure solutions are designed for high availability scalability performance maintainability security and disaster recovery
Handson experience on Azure Monitor and Observability
Knowledge and handson experience Azure API Management
Knowledge and handson experience Azure Blob Storage
Azure Database Services Provide architecture and operational leadership for Azuremanaged database services Support Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance and other applicable Azure database platforms Define database connectivity availability
Azure Kubernetes Service Architect implement and govern productiongrade Azure Kubernetes Service platforms Define standards for AKS cluster topology node pools upgrades scaling networking security ingress storage and monitoring Review containerplatform solutions for availability resilience performance operational supportability and disaster recovery
Azure Infrastructure Services
Design and govern Azure infrastructure services including
oAzure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets
oVirtual Networks subnets routing and Network Security Groups
oLoad Balancers Application Gateway and private connectivity
oPrivate Endpoints and service endpoints
oAzure Storage Accounts
oAzure Backup and disaster recovery services
oAzure Key Vault
oManaged Identities and rolebased access control
Review infrastructure configurations and recommend improvements for reliability performance security and cost
Define subscription resourcegroup naming tagging accesscontrol and resourceorganization standards
Skills Required
Azure Infrastructure Services
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics Workspace
Application Insights
Azure Blob Storage
Azure API Management
Azure Database Services
Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Virtual Networks and private connectivity
Azure identity and rolebased access control
Azure Backup and disaster recovery
Azure architecture design and troubleshooting
Production operations and major incident management
Technical leadership and stakeholder coordination