Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect – Azure

NeerInfo Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; New Jersey; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NeerInfo Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in the United States seeks an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect – Azure to lead architecture and delivery for large enterprise cloud transformations.

You will assess current environments, define transformation strategy, design target-state architecture, and govern the execution of secure, scalable Azure solutions. Senior/principal-level role requiring 15+ years in IT infra and Azure leadership, with hands-on migration, modernization, and governance

Qualifications

• Senior/principal-level Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect role.
• Lead enterprise migration and modernization programs spanning thousands of workloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide Azure assessments across applications, infrastructure, databases, networks, security, and data centers.
• Define discovery, workload classification, readiness, dependency, complexity, right-sizing, modernization, licensing, security, and compliance analysis.
• Develop cloud adoption strategies, business cases, TCO/ROI, workload priorities, migration waves, executive recommendations, and transformation roadmaps.
• Define end-to-end Azure target architectures and Landing Zones covering subscriptions, identity, networking, security, governance, monitoring, backup/DR, policy, and compliance.
• Architect Azure compute, VMs, storage, networking, AKS, AVS, databases, backup, Site Recovery, and Azure Virtual Desktop services.
• Create secure, highly available, resilient, and scalable reference architectures, principles, patterns, and reusable components.
• Lead large-scale data center-to-Azure migration strategy using rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, and retire approaches.
• Design migration factories, dependency-led waves, and low-disruption patterns based on business criticality, complexity, and readiness.
• Drive modernization across compute, databases, containers, VMware, storage, backup/DR, networking, security, monitoring, and operations.
• Recommend Azure-native versus IaaS solutions and guide hybrid or multi-cloud architecture where required.

Skills

Azure architecture

Enterprise migration

Technical leadership

Executive communication

Cloud strategy

Tools

Azure Migrate

Azure DevOps

Terraform/Bicep

Site Recovery

CMDB/discovery tools

Job description

We seek an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Solution Architect – Azure to lead architecture and technical solutioning for large enterprise cloud transformations. The role covers assessments, migration and modernization strategy, target-state architecture, governance, and delivery of secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized Azure solutions.

NOTE : This is a senior/principal-level Azure Cloud Infrastructure Architect role. The person is not just designing Azure environments—they are expected to assess a large enterprise’s existing infrastructure, create the Azure transformation strategy, design the target architecture, lead migration/modernization, and govern the technical execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Assessment & Strategy

• Lead enterprise-wide Azure assessments across applications, infrastructure, databases, networks, security, and data centers.
• Define discovery, workload classification, readiness, dependency, complexity, right-sizing, modernization, licensing, security, and compliance analysis.
• Develop cloud adoption strategies, business cases, TCO/ROI, workload priorities, migration waves, executive recommendations, and transformation roadmaps.
• Define end-to-end Azure target architectures and Landing Zones covering subscriptions, identity, networking, security, governance, monitoring, backup/DR, policy, and compliance.
• Architect Azure compute, VMs, storage, networking, AKS, AVS, databases, backup, Site Recovery, and Azure Virtual Desktop services.
• Create secure, highly available, resilient, and scalable reference architectures, principles, patterns, and reusable components.

3. Migration & Modernization

• Lead large-scale data center-to-Azure migration strategy using rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, and retire approaches.
• Design migration factories, dependency-led waves, and low-disruption patterns based on business criticality, complexity, and readiness.
• Drive modernization across compute, databases, containers, VMware, storage, backup/DR, networking, security, monitoring, and operations.
• Recommend Azure-native versus IaaS solutions and guide hybrid or multi-cloud architecture where required.

4. Large & Complex Migration Leadership

• Serve as Lead Solution Architect and technical authority for transformations involving thousands of workloads and applications.
• Lead architects and SMEs across workstreams, migration factories, and delivery teams; review and approve high- and low-level designs.
• Resolve technical risks and dependencies, enforce architecture consistency, and advise program leadership on assumptions and mitigation.
• Engage customer CIO/CTO, enterprise architecture, and infrastructure leaders as required.
• Establish Azure standards, design principles, architecture reviews, and technical design authority.
• Ensure alignment with Azure Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks, enterprise security, compliance, resilience, DR, and FinOps requirements.
• Maintain architecture decisions, standards, patterns, technology recommendations, and technical-debt modernization roadmaps.
• Automate assessment, migration, and deployment using Infrastructure as Code, Azure DevOps/CI-CD, Terraform/Bicep, Azure Migrate, native automation, and dependency-mapping tools.
• Build reusable patterns, templates, accelerators, and factory-based approaches for high-volume migrations.

7. Security, Resilience & Cost Optimization

• Embed identity, segmentation, security controls, governance, high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery into Azure designs.
• Apply FinOps, right-sizing, licensing, and consumption optimization with security, finance, and operations guardrails.
• Advise enterprise customers, lead discovery and architecture workshops, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Present recommendations to senior stakeholders, influence cloud adoption and modernization decisions, and collaborate with Microsoft and technology partners.

9. Team Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead, mentor, review, and coach cloud and infrastructure architects and SMEs.
• Define competency standards, build reusable IP and accelerators, and support hiring, certifications, and the architecture community of practice.

Required Technical Skills

Strong expertise across:

• Landing Zones, VMs, Scale Sets, Storage, Networking, ExpressRoute, Firewall, Application Gateway, and Load Balancer
• Entra ID, Key Vault, Policy, Monitor, Backup, and Site Recovery
• AKS, AVS, Azure SQL/database services, and Azure Virtual Desktop

Strong experience with:

• Data center, VMware, physical, VM, application, and database migrations to Azure
• Dependency mapping, wave planning, migration factories, application modernization, and hybrid cloud architecture

Experience with tools such as:

• Azure Migrate, Site Recovery, Azure DevOps, Terraform/Bicep, CMDB/discovery, dependency mapping, and migration planning tools

Infrastructure

Strong understanding of:

• VMware/vSphere, Windows/Linux, compute, virtualization, storage, backup/DR, and data center architecture
• Network and security architecture, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, load balancing, and enterprise monitoring

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Terraform certification
• VMware certifications

Experience

• 15+ years in IT infrastructure/cloud, including 8+ years in Azure/cloud architecture
• Proven leadership of enterprise migration and modernization programs spanning thousands of VMs and applications.
• Experience leading architects and SMEs in customer-facing consulting, solutioning, and globally distributed delivery.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate:

• Strategic architecture, structured problem-solving, and simplification of complex issues
• Executive communication, customer consulting, influencing, and decision-making under ambiguity
• Ability to balance technical quality, business outcomes, cost, risk, and time-to-market
• Cross-functional leadership, ownership, and accountability without relying on direct authority

The Lead Architect will be accountable for delivering:

• Assessment strategy, current-state analysis, cloud readiness, workload classification, and dependency analysis
• Target Azure and Landing Zone architectures, including high- and low-level designs
• Migration and modernization strategy, roadmap, wave plan, factory architecture, patterns, and accelerators
• Architecture governance, technical risk and dependency management, executive presentations, and migration execution leadership

Success Measures

Success in this role will be measured through:

• Accurate assessments and high-quality, compliant architectures
• Successful complex migrations with strong velocity, productivity, and reduced technical risk
• Improved Azure adoption, modernization, cost efficiency, and customer satisfaction
• Reusable architecture assets, stronger team capability, and successful transformation delivery

Level: Lead Architect / Principal Architect

Focus: Assessment | Migration | Modernization | Azure Architecture | Technical Leadership

Reports to: Cloud Infrastructure / Cloud Transformation Practice Leadership

Key Interfaces: CIO/CTO organizations, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application, Security, Network, Cloud Engineering, FinOps, Microsoft and Technology Partners