Carve-Out Cloud Architect: Azure Migrations & FinOps

Elfonze Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Elfonze Technologies is seeking a senior cloud and application architect to lead carve-out migrations from on-prem to Azure and other targets. You will design target-state architectures, apply well-architected principles, and define DNS, API, and data architectures for a multi-cloud environment.

The role requires strong DevOps/DevSecOps practices, containerisation expertise, and experience with FinOps and cross-border client work. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in application and cloud architecture.
• At least three application migrations from on-premises to Azure.
• Strong understanding of the 6Rs and of well-architected frameworks.
• Good understanding of FinOps and cloud cost management.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM and Bicep) and AWS equivalents, with current versions.
• Experience with at least two cloud providers (Azure and AWS).
• Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration platforms.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines, including source control tooling.
• Experience with application DNS architectures
• Experience with application rationalisation
• Experience designing and securing API endpoints
• Experience with application data architecture and design
• Understanding of hyper-converged infrastructure
• Exposure to at least two OEMs or two cloud providers in each technology area
• Strong communication skills, with prior experience working with UK and EU clients
• Willingness to travel as required and to work in the client time zone
• Prior infrastructure background alongside the specialism above
• Prior experience in IT consolidations, mergers, demergers and carve-outs (mandatory)
• Relevant professional certifications strongly recommended

Responsibilities

• Assess applications and define the 6R treatment and migration strategy.
• Design target-state architecture on Azure and AWS for carve-outs.
• Apply well-architected principles to reliability, security and cost.
• Define DNS architecture and name resolution for applications.
• Define API endpoint design, integration and access patterns.
• Design data architecture and data stores for cloud targets.
• Create infrastructure as code using Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Design containerised platforms and deployment patterns.
• Define DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD tooling.
• Apply FinOps practices to target application cost.
• Lead rationalisation across the estate and review designs with client architects.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Migration strategy

Well-architected framework

FinOps

DevOps/CI-CD

Communication with clients

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IST/Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure ARM/Bicep

AWS

Job description

Elfonze Technologies is seeking a senior cloud and application architect to lead carve-out migrations from on-prem to Azure and other targets. You will design target-state architectures, apply well-architected principles, and define DNS, API, and data architectures for a multi-cloud environment.

The role requires strong DevOps/DevSecOps practices, containerisation expertise, and experience with FinOps and cross-border client work. Travel may be required.