🎯 Experience: 12+ Years
We are seeking an experienced M&A Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions Architect to support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, integrations, and technology separation initiatives.
🔹 Key Responsibilities
• Lead cloud and infrastructure architecture for M&A integration, divestiture, and separation initiatives.
• Assess current-state cloud, infrastructure, hosting, identity, security, and operational environments.
• Design target-state architectures and transition strategies aligned with business and transaction objectives.
• Provide architecture guidance across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, compute, virtualization, Active Directory, Entra ID, security, and infrastructure services.
• Participate in technology due diligence and discovery activities.
• Identify infrastructure dependencies, technical risks, constraints, and migration considerations.
• Develop migration, separation, integration, Day 1 readiness, operational handover, and stabilization plans.
• Support operational readiness, including backup/recovery, security baselines, access provisioning, monitoring, decommissioning, and buyer/receiving-organization readiness.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to M&A teams, technical leadership, and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with application, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, service provider, and business teams.
🔹 Required Qualifications
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, or technology consulting.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and operations.
• Experience supporting M&A transactions, divestitures, carve-outs, infrastructure transformations, or large-scale migrations.
• Experience with one or more public cloud platforms; Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Deep knowledge of:
Identity & Access Management
Active Directory & Microsoft Entra ID
Networking & Connectivity
Infrastructure Operations
Virtualization & Hosting Platforms
Security Architecture
Infrastructure Migration & Modernization
• Experience developing infrastructure roadmaps, migration strategies, and target-state architectures.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
📌 Typical Deliverables
Infrastructure & cloud assessments | Architecture diagrams | Dependency maps | Identity & network transition plans | Migration & decommissioning plans | Operational readiness assessments | TSA support plans | Transition trackers | Risk & decision logs | Executive-level architecture recommendations