Azure Architect

Title: Azure Architect
Type: Contract to Hire.
Location: New York USA
Schedule: Hybrid 23 days per week
Pay: $80$95/Hour

Azure Platform Architecture

• Design deploy and optimize Azure workloads and supporting platform services.
• Support architecture and engineering decisions across Entra AKS Azure Virtual Machines and related Azure capabilities.

Security & Reliability

• Help implement secure configuration identity controls resilience and operational standards for Azure environments.
• Support monitoring backup failover and recovery readiness.

Optimization & Automation

• Improve automation provisioning speed and infrastructure consistency through tooling and repeatable engineering patterns.
• Partner on usage optimization and cost-aware design decisions.

Cross-Functional Delivery

• Work with infrastructure security and development teams to support enterprise platforms and practice development activities running on Azure.

You Have:

• 5 years of experience designing and supporting Azure environments in production.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure services including Entra AKS Azure Virtual Machines and related infrastructure capabilities.
• Experience with automation infrastructure as code and secure cloud operations.
• Comfort troubleshooting optimizing and improving Azure environments with a focus on scalable secure and reliable outcomes.
• Ability to work across engineering security and operational teams.
• Bachelors degree preferred; Azure certifications are a plus.