Senior Azure Cloud Architect - Landing Zone & Migrations

Dhaka Technology Limited; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Dhaka Technologies Limited is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to lead OCTO’s cloud build-out in a primarily Azure environment with supporting AWS workloads. You will design secure, governed environments, deliver infrastructure as code via Terraform, and mentor the Azure Cloud Engineer.

The role requires a hands-on leader able to drive migration waves, establish landing zones, and oversee Azure Virtual Desktop configurations. Onsite in Washington, DC, with W2/1099 arrangements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering with 5+ years in Microsoft Azure.
• Design and delivery of an enterprise Azure landing zone with RBAC and policy.
• Hands-on Terraform production experience with modular design.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of Entra ID, conditional access, and identity governance.
• Experience migrating on-prem workloads to Azure.
• Working knowledge of AWS workloads and services.
• Experience mentoring engineers and performing code reviews.
• Excellent architecture documentation and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into clear cloud architecture designs and present tradeoffs.
• Lead design and migration of on-prem workloads to Azure with cost modeling.
• Own Azure landing zone design including management groups, subscriptions, policies, and RBAC.
• Provide architectural oversight for Azure Virtual Desktop deployments and Nerdio integration.
• Define monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery standards for Azure workloads.
• Ensure changes are delivered via code and pull requests (not manual portal changes).
• Mentor the Azure Cloud Engineer and ensure primary/backup ownership for critical systems.
• Maintain up-to-date architecture diagrams and runbooks.

Skills

Azure Architecture

Terraform

Azure Landing Zone

RBAC & Security Baselines

Cost Management

Documentation & Runbooks

Mentoring Engineers

Clouds (Azure + AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

AWS Solutions Architect (Nice to have)

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Entra ID / Conditional Access

Job description

Dhaka Technologies Limited is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to lead OCTO’s cloud build-out in a primarily Azure environment with supporting AWS workloads. You will design secure, governed environments, deliver infrastructure as code via Terraform, and mentor the Azure Cloud Engineer.

The role requires a hands-on leader able to drive migration waves, establish landing zones, and oversee Azure Virtual Desktop configurations. Onsite in Washington, DC, with W2/1099 arrangements.