Azure Cloud Architect

Overview of Role:

66degrees is looking for creative, dedicated, and personable technology business professionals for an Azure Cloud Architect position. We are looking for someone with a broad range of technical and consulting skills and aptitude. Our ideal candidate will display relentless curiosity and drive around how we organize ourselves and deploy/use technology to ensure our clients' Azure environments are reliable and secure. We are looking for the right fit with our growing organization and we will invest in training.

Responsibilities:

Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.

Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.

Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.

Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.

Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Azure with clients, at conferences, and online.

Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.

Lead planning, status, and standup meetings.

Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Qualifications:

5+ years of Azure experience is a must. Experience in other clouds is beneficial.

Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification required, other Microsoft, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications a plus.

Must have played 2+ years as an Azure Architect.

Lead cloud architecture strategy, requirements gathering, solution definition, and technical discovery for Azure transformation initiatives.

Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.

Lead architecture workshops and translate business requirements into target-state architectures, solution designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation roadmaps.

Design and implement Azure Landing Zones, governance, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and operational frameworks.

Extensive experience with security (Zero Trust) and networking (Azure Vnets, Hub-and-Spoke, Express route, VPN, Entra ID etc..) in cloud environments.

Strong experience designing and advising on CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, with hands-on understanding of Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.

Experience in containerising workloads using Kubernetes/AKS, Docker, Helm, and Azure Container Registry.

Experience with structured Cloud Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premises-to-Azure migration deployments and roadmaps.

Develop migration strategies and roadmaps covering discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, migration, modernization, and optimization.

Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

Mentor engineers and contribute to the development of Azure cloud capabilities, reusable patterns, and accelerators.

Ability to work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.

Excellent organisational skills and customer-facing communication.

Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams/slide decks.

Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or ExpressRoute is a plus.