Senior Cloud Architect (Azure Platform Engineering)

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Senior Cloud Architect (Azure Platform Engineering)

Experience: 12-18 Years
Location: India (Hybrid/Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to join our Product Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, validating, and governing enterprise-scale cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure. This role requires deep expertise in Azure application hosting, container platforms, networking, security, and infrastructure architecture.

The candidate will drive architecture decisions, perform Proof of Concepts (POCs), validate platform capabilities, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and ensure security, compliance, governance, and network isolation are embedded into all platform offerings.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure.
• Architect and validate cloud-native services and reusable platform capabilities.
• Conduct end-to-end solution testing, architecture reviews, and Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Define and implement platform standards covering security, compliance, governance, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and platform-related customer issues.
• Collaborate with product engineering, security, networking, and operations teams.
• Drive modernization initiatives using containers, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies.
• Establish best practices for certificate management, secrets management, and identity management.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.

Mandatory Skills

• Azure App Service (Web Apps)
• Azure Functions
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Container Apps
• Azure Front Door
• Azure Application Gateway
• Envoy Gateway API / Kubernetes Ingress
• Certificate Management Solutions
• Secrets Management Solutions (Key Vault, Vault, etc.)
• Azure Infrastructure Architecture
• Cloud Security and Governance
• End-to-End Solution Design & Validation
• Infrastructure Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis

Preferred Skills

• GitHub Actions / CI-CD Pipelines
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• PowerShell Scripting
• Azure DNS
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Authentication & Authorization Frameworks
• Infrastructure Automation
• DevSecOps Practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 12+ years of IT experience with strong cloud architecture expertise.
• Hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale Azure solutions.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes ecosystem and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.