Senior Azure Architect

Role Title: Senior Azure Architect

Location: Charlotte, NC, Onsite, Hybrid

Term: Contract

Mandatory Skills

• Azure Architecture
• Multi-Region Setup
• Greenfield Setup Experience
• 15 years of overall experience (mandatory)

Role Overview

We are building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform aimed at eliminating infrastructure friction. The objective is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strong security, compliance, and cost governance.

As a Senior Azure Architect, you will play a key role in defining standards and architectural patterns that power this platform. You will design scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions while bridging the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Design

• Develop and refine reference architectures for compute runtimes
• Evaluate and recommend solutions across:
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Container Apps
• Azure App Service

Resilience & Disaster Recovery

• Architect Tier 1 systems with Active-Active multi-region deployment (RTO < 4 hours)
• Design failover strategies for:
• PostgreSQL Flexible Server
• Cosmos DB
• Redis Enterprise
• Implement traffic management strategies

Network & Security Architecture

• Design secure networking models:
• Hub-and-Spoke architecture
• Private Link / Endpoints
• DNS strategies
• Implement Security by Design using:
• Entra ID (Managed Identities, Federated Credentials)
• Policy enforcement

Standardization & Governance

• Create reusable, policy-compliant infrastructure patterns
• Ensure compliance with:
• Observability standards (Azure Managed Grafana)
• Logging frameworks
• Cost governance controls

Subject Matter Expertise

• Provide Azure expertise to application teams
• Guide modernization initiatives and cloud-native adoption
• Optimize database and infrastructure performance

Required Skills & Experience

Azure Expertise

• Deep knowledge of Azure services, control plane, limits, and trade-offs
• Strong experience with:
• AKS
• App Service
• Networking
• Storage

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Expertise in building modular, reusable, and scalable Terraform code

Advanced Data Architecture

• High-availability design using:
• Azure SQL / PostgreSQL
• Cosmos DB (multi-region read/write)
• Caching strategies

Networking

• Strong understanding of:
• Virtual Networks
• Application Gateway
• Azure Front Door / Traffic Manager
• Private connectivity

Production Operations

• Experience with observability tools:
• Application Insights
• Azure Monitor
• Prometheus
• Designing for day-2 operations

Security & Identity

• Expertise in:
• Entra ID (OIDC/OAuth flows)
• RBAC models
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Nice to Have

• Experience with Wiz or similar cloud security tools
• FinOps knowledge (cost monitoring, anomaly detection, budget control)
• Familiarity with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with Azure management APIs