Azure Cloud AI Technical Architect

We are

• seeking a highly skilled and experienced Azure Technical Architect with a
• minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure. The ideal
• candidate should possess excellent inter-company communication skills,
• demonstrated experience in designing and implementing complex Azure-based
• solutions, and a solid understanding of AI platforms (HPC/AI), including
• Microsoft AI, Cerebras, Fluid Stack and AMD-based architectures.

Key

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain
• end-to-end Azure solutions across various Azure services.
• Continuously assess the health
• of Azure services and infrastructure using Azure Service Health, Resource
• Health, and Azure Monitor.Proactively identify potential issues and outages,
• minimizing downtime and ensuring service reliability.
• Analyze performance metrics
• across compute, storage, network, and application layers & Identify
• bottlenecks and performance gaps, recommending and implementing tuning
• strategies.
• Translate complex business
• requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable Azure architecture
• designs.
• Architect and lead complex
• application modernization journeys, including the decomposition of
• monolithic applications (e.g., legacy .NET apps) into scalable, secure,
• and cost-effective microservices on Azure.
• Design end-to-end migration
• solutions for complex, multi-tier enterprise workloads, ensuring
• minimal business disruption and maximizing the return on cloud investment.
• Evaluate application
• portfolios to provide strategic recommendations on migration paths:
• Rehost (lift-and-shift), Refactor, Rearchitect (to microservices), or
• Rebuild.
• Act as a technical advisor to
• internal stakeholders and external and partner stakeholders.
• Drive cloud adoption strategies
• and lead Azure cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with development,
• DevOps, AI/ML, and security teams to ensure optimal cloud architecture and
• deployment practices.
• Provide architectural governance
• and ensure compliance with best practices, standards, and security
• policies.
• Produce high-quality
• documentation, architecture diagrams, and solution blueprints.
• Guide and mentor technical teams
• and conduct architectural reviews.
• Stay current on the latest
• developments in Azure services and AI technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s

degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Minimum 6 years of relevant

hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure as architect or in Senior role.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure

Solutions Architect Expert certification (required).

• Strong understanding of

cloud architecture, networking, security, and automation.

• Demonstrated experience

with AI/ML solutions and integrations.

• Excellent written and

verbal communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and

non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving

skills and ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Ability to collaborate

across multiple business units and technical teams.

• Strong presentation and

documentation skills.

• Experience working in

multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

• High level of curiosity and

adaptability to new technologies.

• End-to-end Azure

Infrastructure & Networking management (compute, storage, VNet, load

balancing, security)

• Application & Data

services including App Services, AKS, SQL, and monitoring/automation

frameworks.

• Security, IAM &

• Governance with Azure AD, Defender, Sentinel, Policies, and backup
• solutions.CI/CD, Automation & AI/ML using
• Azure DevOps, IaC tools, and
• Azure AI/Cognitive/OpenAI.