What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Azure Architect position at SMX Services & Consulting, Inc.?
Description Of Services:
We are building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction. Our goal is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strict security, compliance, and cost governance. As a Senior Azure Architect, you will be a key contributor to the standards and patterns that power this platform.
You will design the standardized architectures that allow our engineering teams to deploy complex, production-ready workloads securely and reliably. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience, ensuring our cloud architecture scales effectively with the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Architecture Design: Develop and refine reference architectures for our compute runtime, analyzing workload requirements to determine the best fit across Azure Kubernetes
- Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Azure App Service.
- Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Architect robust Tier 1 systems capable of Active-Active multi[1]region deployment (RTO <4hr). You will design failover patterns for data layers (PostgreSQL
- Flexible Server, Cosmos DB, Redis Enterprise) and traffic management.
- Network & Security Architecture: Design secure networking fabrics, including Hub-and-Spoke models, Private Link/Endpoints, and DNS strategies. Implement "Security by Design " using Entra
- ID (Managed Identities, Federated Credentials) and rigorous policy enforcement.
- Standardization & Governance: Translate complex infrastructure requirements into reusable, policy-compliant patterns. You will ensure that every deployment meets our strict standards for observability (Azure Managed Grafana), logging, and cost controls.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a primary resource for Azure expertise, consulting with application teams on modernization strategies, database optimization, and cloud-native best practices.
Other:
- Nice to Have Experience with Wiz or similar cloud security tools.
- Background in FinOps, including cost anomaly detection and budget enforcement.
- Familiarity with GitOps principles (ArgoCD/Flux) and CI/CD workflows.
- Experience interacting with Azure management APIs.