Azure Architect

Title: Azure Architect

Location: Newark NJ (Hybrid 3 days a week onsite)

Key words Set 1: Architect AND Azure AND (Virtual Machines OR VMs OR AKS OR Kubernetes OR Storage OR SQL OR Cosmos)

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Architect who can design build and maintain scalable secure and cost effective cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. This role bridges business requirements and technical implementation ensuring cloud architectures align with best practices security standards and enterprise goals.

Responsibilities

• Design end to end Azure cloud architectures for enterprise and cloud native applications
• Define high availability disaster recovery scalability and performance strategies
• Create architecture diagrams design documents and solution blueprints
• Select appropriate Azure services (IaaS PaaS SaaS) based on requirement
• Architect and manage Azure services such as Azure Virtual Machines App Services AKS Azure Storage (Blob File Queue Table) Azure SQL Cosmos DB Azure Virtual Network VPN and ExpressRoute
• Design hybrid and multi cloud solutions where required
• Implement Azure security best practices - Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) RBAC Managed Identities Azure Key Vault Defender for Cloud
• Design CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM Templates Bicep and Terraform
• Enable automated deployments and environment provisioning
• Lead cloud migration initiatives (on prem Azure)

Requirements:

• 10 Years of IT experience
• 6 years of strong hands on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Azure networking (VNet NSG Load Balancer Application Gateway)
• Azure compute and storage services
• Identity & access management (Entra ID / Azure AD)
• Monitoring and logging tools
• Azure DevOps & CI/CD pipelines
• IaC tools (ARM Bicep Terraform)
• Strong Problem solving and decision making skills
• Microsoft Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert / Azure Administrator Associate / Azure Security Engineer Associate / TOGAF / Cloud Architecture certifications are preferred