azure Solution Architect

Title : Solution Architect -Day 1 Onsite

Location : Redmond, WA or ( open for remote)

JD & Role Summary

Lead and deliver enterprise Azure solutions, partnering with Dev Engineering and Azure DevOps teams to design secure, scalable, and modular architectures. Support engineering team with design reviews, readiness validation, and technical guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design and delivery aligned with Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Provide guidance to Dev Engineering and Azure DevOps teams on secure, modular architecture patterns.
• Design and govern standardized deployment patterns using Bicep / ARM IaC.
• Review reusable IaC modules, reference architectures, and proof-of-concepts.
• Review and validate architecture, Azure DevOps pipelines, and deployment templates for security, resiliency, and consistency.
• Define security design patterns including identity, networking isolation, policy enforcement, and compliance controls.
• Review database designs for scalability, performance, and security.
• Architect and review AKS deployments, including cluster design, networking, identity integration, and security.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and partner teams to unblock delivery and enforce best practices.
• Strong experience in Azure architecture across networking, identity, security, compute, storage, and governance.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep / ARM) and modular IaC design patterns.
• Experience designing and deploying Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solutions.
• Ability to deliver architectural POCs, reusable frameworks, and secure reference implementations.
• Proven ability to guide engineering teams and vendors on cloud architecture best practices.

Preferred / Nice to Have Experience

• Administration experience with Microsoft Admin Center portal.
• Google Workspace (G Suite) Microsoft 365 migrations.
• Hands-on knowledge of Cloudiway migration tooling for mailbox, calendar, identity, and content migrations.
• Experience with cross-tenant and hybrid identity migration scenarios.

Certifications (good to have )

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)