Azure Architect

9NEXUS Limited; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

9NEXUS Limited in the United States seeks an experienced Cloud Architect focusing on Azure to design and govern scalable, compliant cloud solutions. You will lead architecture reviews, onboarding governance, and delivery of Azure services including AKS, backups, and monitoring to meet security and availability requirements.

You'll collaborate with engineers, developers, and operations to optimize FinOps, automation, and cloud transformation initiatives, staying current with cloud trends and

Responsibilities

• Design and develop cloud architectures using Azure services and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and support to project teams and clients on cloud-related issues.
• Collaborate with engineers, developers and analysts to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Onboarding new cloud services and managing the Azure landing zone.
• Ensure security, scalability, reliability and performance across Azure environments.
• Stay updated on the latest cloud trends and technologies.

Skills

Azure knowledge

FinOps knowledge

Security best practices

Governance leadership

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

AKS

Azure networking

Job description

• Design and develop cloud architectures using Azure services and best practices.
• Should have knowledge of all Azure Services along with FinOps. Provide technical guidance and support to project teams and clients on cloud-related issues.
• Working with application teams to verify architecture of new systems meets availability, performance, and security requirements. Design and Implementation of any new service required for application in Azure.
• Implement security, scalability, reliability, and performance measures for cloud environments.
• Collaborate with other cloud architects, engineers, developers, and analysts to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies in the cloud domain.
• Onboarding new cloud services.
• Managing the Azure landing zone for new requirements/deployments.
• Provide technical guidance and support to Operations team, project team and client on cloud-related issues.
• Understand the existing platform / Process & Tools/Technology and how they are integrated together
• Published key Findings / problematic areas like processes are ad-hoc, relying on effort intensive coordination; leading to delays and with a lot of opportunities to automate, streamline, optimize, improve quality and reduce cost) and tried to bring in industry best practices.
• Documentation creating Wikis and transitioning steady state systems to the operations group.
• Azure governance, landing zones & cloud architecture leadership
• Architecture review, design assurance & onboarding governance
• Azure DevOps, Terraform & automation architecture
• FinOps, optimisation & cloud transformation advisory
• Azure networking, AKS, backup, DR & monitoring architecture
• GxP-regulated cloud platforms and audit compliance
• Stakeholder engagement and architecture governance leadership