At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- India
About the role
- 66degrees is looking for creative, dedicated, and personable technology business professionals for an Azure Cloud Architect position.
- The ideal candidate displays relentless curiosity and drive around how the organization deploys and uses technology to ensure clients' Azure environments are reliable and secure.
Responsibilities
- Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.
- Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
- Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
- Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.
- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Azure with clients, at conferences, and online.
- Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
- Lead planning, status, and standup meetings.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Azure experience is a must.
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification required.
- Must have played 2+ years as an Azure Architect.
- Lead cloud architecture strategy, requirements gathering, solution definition, and technical discovery for Azure transformation initiatives.
- Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Lead architecture workshops and translate business requirements into target-state architectures, solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation roadmaps.
- Design and implement Azure Landing Zones, governance, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and operational frameworks.
- Extensive experience with security (Zero Trust) and networking (Azure Vnets, Hub-and-Spoke, Express route, VPN, Entra ID etc..) in cloud environments.
- Strong experience designing and advising on CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, with hands-on understanding of Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience in containerising workloads using Kubernetes/AKS, Docker, Helm, and Azure Container Registry.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
- Other Microsoft, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications a plus.
- Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or ExpressRoute is a plus.
Skills
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Azure Vnets
- Express Route
- VPN
- Entra ID
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Azure Pipelines
- GitOps
- Infrastructure As Code
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- AKS
- Docker
- Helm
