Azure Cloud Architect

about 2 months ago

Chicago, IL, USA or Detroit, MI, USA

Senior / Staff+

Base Salary

$150k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

Lead strategy and planning for cloud modernization programs using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.
Define cloud adoption roadmaps and architect scalable solutions across Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity, and hybrid environments.
Translate business and technical requirements into actionable Azure migration plans and present value and ROI to C-Suite and VP stakeholders.
Drive growth by identifying customer pain, framing the opportunity, and turning it into delivered value.
Perform hands-on engineering during design, deployment, and cutover activities.
Provide technical leadership to cloud engineers and ensure adherence to standards, automation, and best practices.
Contribute to pre-sales by articulating the Why Azure message and supporting solution design for customer engagements.
Manage ongoing optimization, performance tuning, and cost governance for Azure workloads.

5 years experience architecting and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure.
5 years experience executing enterprise application or infrastructure migrations with hands-on engineering involvement.
Expertise in Azure networking, security, identity (Entra ID), and data migration workloads, including experience with Azure Migrate.
Experience applying DevOps practices and building CI/CD pipelines.
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Bicep.
Experience designing solutions for hybrid cloud or on-premises to Azure connectivity.

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