Senior Lead Azure Cloud Architect

Important Information

• Years of Experience: 10 years in cloud engineering architecture or infrastructure roles

• Job Mode: Full-time

• Work Mode: Remote

Job Summary

The Senior Azure Cloud Architect / Engineer is responsible for designing architecting and delivering scalable secure and resilient cloud solutions primarily within Microsoft Azure while also incorporating multi-cloud and AWS capabilities. This role requires deep technical expertise across cloud infrastructure security DevOps automation containerization and migration strategies. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading cloud initiatives mentoring engineering teams and driving modernization efforts including cloud-to-cloud migrations and re-architecting legacy systems into modern multi-tier microservices solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties

Architecture & Design

• Architect and enhance end-to-end Azure cloud solutions across compute storage networking identity and security.

• Define cloud governance resource organization cost optimization and high-availability patterns.

• Provide architectural oversight participate in solution reviews and guide technical decision-making.

• Evaluate and recommend new Azure services and emerging technologies.

• Design architectures spanning Azure and AWS environments ensuring interoperability and optimal workload placement.

• Support cross-cloud strategies including failover workload distribution and high-resiliency solutions.

Engineering & Delivery

• Lead and execute hands-on implementation of Azure infrastructure and services.

• Build and maintain IaC using Terraform Bicep and ARM templates.

• Develop CI/CD pipelines leveraging Azure DevOps GitHub Actions and other automation frameworks.

• Troubleshoot optimize and automate cloud workloads to improve scalability and performance.

• Implement AWS services (EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS CloudWatch) to complement Azure ecosystems.

• Support multi-cloud deployments and cross-cloud automation using Terraform and GitHub Actions.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and mentor cloud engineering teams supporting their career growth and daily direction.

• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical challenges.

• Collaborate with security data product and application teams to ensure architectural alignment.

• Conduct design reviews and provide coaching to engineers of all levels.

• Promote cloud-agnostic design principles to support multi-cloud portability.

Governance Security & Operations

• Implement Azure Policy RBAC and Defender for Cloud configurations.

• Ensure compliance with corporate and industry security requirements.

• Drive cost management strategies through proper resource planning and tagging.

• Support incident response and operational troubleshooting.

• Define governance and security best practices across Azure and AWS.

• Enhance workload protection through strong identity network and security configurations.

Qualifications and Skills

• 10 years of cloud engineering or architecture experience primarily with Azure.

• Expert knowledge of Azure IaaS PaaS and serverless services.

• Strong communication skills capable of translating complex topics for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven leadership experience guiding engineers in Agile or DevOps environments.

• Experience designing and managing hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.

• Knowledge of cloud governance cost control high availability and security best practices.

Role-Specific Requirements

• Experience leading migrations from on-prem to Azure cloud-to-cloud and modernization of monolithic applications.

• Experience migrating Oracle VM-hosted databases to Autonomous DB or other enhanced DB platforms.

• Strong background deploying and managing Azure VM-based landing zones.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end development lifecycle.

• Familiarity with refactoring Apache front end and working with Apache Front Door.

• Experience with monitoring solutions such as Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights.

Technologies

• IaC: Terraform Bicep ARM

• Automation / CI/CD: Azure DevOps GitHub Actions

• Cloud: Azure (IaaS PaaS Serverless Networking Security) AWS (EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS CloudWatch)

• Containers & Orchestration: Docker Kubernetes AKS

• Security: Azure AD Managed Identities Key Vault Defender for Cloud

• Monitoring: Application Insights Azure Monitor Log Analytics

• OS: Windows & Linux (advanced Linux administration)

Skillset Competencies

• Strategic architectural thinking with strong hands-on engineering capability.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead through influence.

• Passion for automation optimization and continuous improvement.

• Ability to identify root causes and drive long-term corrective actions.

• Adaptable in multi-cloud environments balancing business needs and platform capabilities.

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the worlds leading enterprises and digital-native companies. With over 9000 experts in 47 offices and innovation labs across the globe Encora specializes in Product Engineering & Development Cloud Services Quality Engineering DevSecOps Data & Analytics Digital Experience Cybersecurity and AI & LLM Engineering.
At Encora we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications without discrimination based on age disability religion gender sexual orientation socioeconomic status or nationality.

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