Location: New Jersey (Remote)
Type: FTE
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect - Azure to lead architecture and technical solutioning for large-scale enterprise cloud transformations. The role will focus on Azure assessments, migration strategy, target-state architecture, modernization, governance, and technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise Azure assessments, cloud readiness, dependency analysis, TCO/ROI, and migration roadmaps.
- Design Azure Landing Zones and target-state architectures across compute, networking, security, storage, databases, DR, and monitoring.
- Lead large-scale data center/VMware-to-Azure migrations and modernization involving thousands of workloads.
- Define migration waves, migration factory models, rehost/replatform/refactor strategies, and modernization approaches.
- Lead architects and infrastructure SMEs across complex transformation programs.
- Establish architecture standards, governance, security, resilience, and FinOps/cost optimization.
- Drive automation using Azure Migrate, Terraform/Bicep, Azure DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Work directly with CIO/CTO, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Cloud teams.
- Mentor architects and build reusable architecture patterns, accelerators, and best practices.
Required Skills
- 15+ years in IT Infrastructure/Cloud, including 8+ years in Azure/Cloud Architecture.
- Strong experience with VMware, Windows/Linux, networking, virtualization, storage, and data center architecture.
- Proven experience leading large-scale enterprise migrations and modernization programs.
- Strong customer-facing consulting, solutioning, architecture governance, and technical leadership experience.
- Experience leading architects and SMEs across globally distributed teams.
Preferred Certifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Azure Administrator / Network / Security certifications