Cloud Solution Architect - Infrastructure

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA.

We are supporting a well esteemed client of ours searching for a Cloud Solution Architect in India to design, advise on, and support complex Microsoft cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers across the Asia/ANZ region.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and technical design of complex Azure, hybrid cloud and on-premises Microsoft infrastructure solutions.
• Design and advise on solutions using Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub and related Azure hybrid technologies.
• Architect highly available and resilient infrastructure for SAP workloads running on Azure, with particular emphasis on the underlying Azure infrastructure.
• Design, assess and modernise enterprise identity and authentication architectures spanning Active Directory and Microsoft Entra.
• Provide technical leadership across AD DS, ADFS, ADCS, PKI, certificate services and hybrid identity environments.
• Design secure Microsoft Entra solutions covering identity protection, Conditional Access, MFA, governance, external identities and application access.
• Develop network architectures spanning Azure and customer datacentres, including private connectivity, routing, security and application delivery.
• Advise customers on infrastructure migration and modernisation strategies, including Azure Migrate, Azure Arc and Site Recovery.
• Design secure, highly available Windows Server infrastructure and support customers modernising existing datacentre environments.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code and automation using technologies such as Bicep and Terraform.
• Produce architecture documentation, technical designs, migration plans and recommendations aligned to customer requirements and Microsoft best practices.
• Lead technical workshops and architecture discussions with infrastructure, security, networking, application and leadership stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and security challenges and provide technical guidance through implementation and operationalisation.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, translating business requirements into practical, secure and supportable technical architectures.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across complex customer engagements.