Azure Cloud Architect

66degrees; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

66degrees is seeking an experienced Azure Architect to lead cloud transformation initiatives for strategic accounts. The role focuses on designing Azure-based solutions, leading workshops, and translating business needs into target-state architectures.

You will drive migration roadmaps and governance while promoting cloud value. The candidate should have strong leadership, deep Azure expertise, and a track record delivering distributed cloud deployments across global clients.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Azure experience; other clouds are a plus.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification required; others are a plus.
• Minimum 2+ years as an Azure Architect; leading cloud architecture initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted advisory relationships with strategic accounts and engage with management.
• Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design Azure-based strategies to drive growth.
• Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
• Design solutions and architecture diagrams; provide domain expertise in cloud tech.
• Promote Azure with clients, at conferences, and online.
• Provide recommendations on integration strategies and enterprise architectures.
• Lead planning, status, and standup meetings.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and related events as required.

Skills

Azure architecture

Cloud strategy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure Container Registry

Job description

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.