Azure Cloud Architect

Veriipro; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is hiring an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable cloud architectures focused on landing zones, governance, disaster recovery, and modern Azure services.

You will develop reference architectures, guide platform patterns, and establish guardrails, collaborating with Security, IAM, and Governance teams to drive greenfield adoption and robust cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and implementing Microsoft Azure cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Landing Zones, platform services, and cloud governance.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, hub-and-spoke architectures, and Azure Virtual WAN.
• Experience developing reference architectures, reusable blueprints, and architectural standards.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, governance, and platform guardrails.
• Experience designing high-availability, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions.
• Experience developing and testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies.
• Knowledge of Shift-Left security and cloud security practices.
• Basic hands-on knowledge of Terraform/IaC and Azure CLI.

Responsibilities

• Develop and document reusable Azure reference architectures and deployment patterns.
• Design and optimize Azure Landing Zones, platform services, and cloud archetypes.
• Define and implement cloud architecture standards, governance, and guardrails.
• Evaluate Azure services for Greenfield adoption and governance support.
• Conduct architecture reviews for workloads, modernization, and migrations.
• Design highly available, secure, scalable Azure solutions aligned with enterprise needs.
• Plan DR and BC strategies and document test results with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Security, IAM, Platform Engineering, and Governance teams.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Azure Landing Zones

Cloud governance

Security posture

Architecture reviews

Tools

Terraform

Azure CLI

Wiz

Confluence

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

We are seeking an experiencedAzure Cloud Architect to design and establish secure, scalable, and highly available cloud architectures. The role will focus on Azure landing zones, cloud governance, reference architectures, disaster recovery, networking, and adoption of modern Azure services.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and document reusable Azure Greenfield reference architectures, architecture blueprints, and deployment patterns.
• Design and optimize Azure Landing Zones, platform services, and cloud archetypes.
• Define and implement cloud architecture standards, patterns, best practices, governance frameworks, and technical guardrails.
• Evaluate and recommend Azure services for Greenfield adoption while supporting cloud service governance and sanctioning processes.
• Conduct architecture reviews for new workloads, application modernization, and cloud migration initiatives.
• Design highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient Azure solutions aligned with enterprise requirements.
• Design and implement Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) strategies, facilitate testing with stakeholders, and document test results.
• Apply Shift-Left and GuardRight security practices throughout the cloud architecture lifecycle.
• Design Azure networking solutions, including Hub-and-Spoke architectures and Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN).
• Develop reusable architecture blueprints, platform patterns, and infrastructure deployment standards.
• Establish cloud governance controls, security policies, compliance requirements, and platform guardrails.
• Collaborate with Security, Identity & Access Management, Platform Engineering, and Governance teams.
• Support Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform and Azure CLI.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and technical decisions using Confluence and related tools.
• Track architecture initiatives, risks, and deliverables using Jira and ServiceNow.
• Leverage cloud security and posture management tools such as Wiz to support secure Azure adoption.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and implementing Microsoft Azure cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Landing Zones, platform services, and cloud governance.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, including Hub-and-Spoke architecture and Azure Virtual WAN.
• Experience developing reference architectures, reusable blueprints, architecture patterns, and technical standards.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, technical controls, and platform guardrails.
• Experience designing high-availability, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions.
• Experience developing and testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies.
• Knowledge of Shift-Left security and cloud security practices.
• Basic hands-on knowledge of Terraform/IaC and Azure CLI.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, and Wiz.
• Strong communication, documentation, architecture review, and stakeholder management skills.