Azure Cloud Architect

Overview

66degrees is seeking an Azure Cloud Architect to build trusted advisory relationships with strategic accounts and design Microsoft Azure solutions that keep clients' environments reliable and secure.

What you'll do

• 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.
• Lead 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.
• Lead cloud architecture strategy, requirements gathering, solution definition, and technical discovery for Azure transformation initiatives.
• 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.
• Design and advise on CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Develop migration strategies and roadmaps covering discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, migration, modernization, and optimization.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to the development of Azure cloud capabilities, reusable patterns, and accelerators.
• Work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.
• Document and transfer knowledge using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams/slide decks.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of Azure experience.
• Must have played 2+ years as an Azure Architect.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
• Extensive experience with security (Zero Trust) and networking (Azure VNets, Hub-and-Spoke, ExpressRoute, 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 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.
• Excellent organisational skills and customer-facing communication.
• Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams/slide decks.

Nice to have

• Experience in other clouds.
• Other Microsoft, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications.
• Experience implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or ExpressRoute.
• Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

Details

• Location: India.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
• Visa sponsorship or transfer is not offered.