Senior Azure Architect

C&DE-BFS-Senior Azure Architect - NC/Charlotte / Hybrid Work - 12 + months

Requisition Name: C&DE-BFS-Senior Azure Architect

Start Date: 4/16/2026

Duration: 12 + months contract

Services Location: NC/Charlotte / Hybrid Work

Description Of Services:

We are building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction. Our goal is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strict security, compliance, and cost governance. As a Senior Azure Architect, you will be a key contributor to the standards and patterns that power this platform. You will design the standardized architectures that allow our engineering teams to deploy complex, production-ready workloads securely and reliably. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience, ensuring our cloud architecture scales effectively with the business.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Design: Develop and refine reference architectures for our compute runtime, analyzing workload requirements to determine the best fit across Azure Kubernetes

Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Azure App Service.

Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Architect robust Tier 1 systems capable of Active-Active multi[1]region deployment (RTO <4hr). You will design failover patterns for data layers (PostgreSQL

Flexible Server, Cosmos DB, Redis Enterprise) and traffic management.

Network & Security Architecture: Design secure networking fabrics, including Hub-and-Spoke models, Private Link/Endpoints, and DNS strategies. Implement "Security by Design" using Entra

ID (Managed Identities, Federated Credentials) and rigorous policy enforcement.

Standardization & Governance: Translate complex infrastructure requirements into reusable, policy-compliant patterns. You will ensure that every deployment meets our strict standards for

observability (Azure Managed Grafana), logging, and cost controls.

Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a primary resource for Azure expertise, consulting with application teams on modernization strategies, database optimization, and cloud-native best practices.

Deliverables:
-Process Flows -Mentor and Knowledge transfer to client project team members -Participate as primary, co and/or contributing author on any and all project deliverables associated with their assigned areas of responsibility -Participate in data conversion and data maintenance -Provide best practice and industry specific solutions -Advise on and provide alternative (out of the box) solutions -Provide thought leadership as well as hands on technical configuration/development as needed. -Participate as a team member of the functional team -Perform other duties as assigned.

Acceptance Criteria:
none

Other:
Nice to Have Experience with Wiz or similar cloud security tools. Background in FinOps, including cost anomaly detection and budget enforcement. Familiarity with GitOps principles (ArgoCD/Flux) and CI/CD workflows. Experience interacting with Azure management APIs.