Azure Infra Architect: Cloud-Native Scale & Security Lead

Stellar Consulting Solutions, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Consulting Solutions, LLC in the United States is seeking an experienced Azure Infra Architect with 8-10 years of IT and cloud delivery. You will design, guide, and support scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, coordinating with business, development, operations, and delivery teams to translate requirements into reliable architectures.

The role emphasizes hands-on work across Azure infrastructure, containers, API management, event streaming, IaC, and DevOps.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of IT experience with cloud solution design and enterprise delivery.
• Strong Azure platform knowledge including networking, storage, identity, security, and governance.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and containerized workloads.
• Experience with API management platforms such as 3scale or equivalents.
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming solutions.
• Proficient in CI/CD and DevOps practices using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Experience with Terraform IaC for infrastructure provisioning.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement Azure infrastructure patterns across compute, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, and governance.
• Design, deploy, and manage OpenShift or Kubernetes-based container platforms for workloads.
• Design and integrate API gateway solutions for security and lifecycle management.
• Support architecture and implementation of Kafka or other event-streaming platforms.
• Develop and review Terraform modules and automation patterns.
• Design and support CI/CD workflows to improve deployment quality.
• Provide technical guidance to teams and ensure adherence to standards.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, QA, security, and operations to drive delivery.

Skills

Azure architecture

Kubernetes/OpenShift

API management

Kafka/Event streaming

Terraform/IaC

DevOps

Communication

Job description

Stellar Consulting Solutions, LLC in the United States is seeking an experienced Azure Infra Architect with 8-10 years of IT and cloud delivery. You will design, guide, and support scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, coordinating with business, development, operations, and delivery teams to translate requirements into reliable architectures.

The role emphasizes hands-on work across Azure infrastructure, containers, API management, event streaming, IaC, and DevOps.