What are the responsibilities and job description for the Azure Solutions Architect position at Galent?
Role:
You will be the primary architect behind our clients’ digital transformations. With 10 years of experience, you bring a seasoned perspective to the cloud—knowing not just how to build, but how to build with scale, security, and efficiency in mind. You will translate complex business requirements into high-performance technical architectures, leading large-scale migration projects and ensuring our hybrid and cloud-native solutions are world-class.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architecture Design: Create high-level and low-level Azure architecture designs and specifications that adhere to the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
- Infrastructure & Migration: Lead end-to-end cloud migration projects, designing secure network topologies, virtual machines, and scalable storage solutions.
- Governance & Security: Implement Azure Policies and Blueprints to maintain compliance and security across diverse enterprise environments.
- Strategy & Consulting: Act as a strategic advisor to stakeholders, providing roadmaps for cloud adoption and driving continuous cost-optimization initiatives.
- DevOps & Collaboration: Partner with DevOps teams to build automated deployment pipelines and work with software developers to ensure architectural alignment.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Professional Experience: 10 years in IT infrastructure and cloud architecture, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade solutions.
- Azure Mastery: Deep, hands-on expertise in Azure IaaS/PaaS, virtual networking, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), and advanced security protocols.
- Resilient Architecture: Strong understanding of designing for high availability, disaster recovery, and global scalability.
- Scripting & Automation: Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, or Ansible.
- Modern DevOps: Proficiency in integrating architecture with CI/CD workflows and Azure DevOps tools.
- Certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) is highly preferred.
Typical Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and communicate complex architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders.