Cloud Architect
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design and implementation of our cloud infrastructure.
* Azure DevOps pipelines, Git repos, artifact management
* Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code governance patterns
* Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, hierarchical namespace, ACL models
* Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Spark
* Azure Functions, Key Vault, networking (VNets, private endpoints, firewalls)
* Monitoring stacks: Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Monitor
* Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
* Security controls: RBAC, managed identities, secrets management, encryption
The ideal candidate will have experience with CI/CD patterns, release strategy design, automated testing frameworks, and integration with Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure.
2. Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for provisioning storage accounts, networking, compute, identity, and security layers.
3. Implement branching discipline, artifact integrity, automated testing, and controlled release gates.
4. Automate environment provisioning, ACL management, key rotation, lifecycle policies, and cluster configuration.
5. Integrate DevOps processes with enterprise security: RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, private networking, encryption controls.
6. Build observability: logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards for pipelines and platform components.
7. Maintain backup, restoration, disaster-recovery patterns and test them for reliability.
8. Eliminate configuration drift through standardized templates and environment baselines.
9. Maintain and optimize agents, service connections, and deployment runtimes.
10. Perform incident response and root-cause analysis, document systemic fixes.
11. Deliver reusable automation modules for data engineering teams.
12. Optimize workload performance and cost within the cloud environment.
13. Ensure compliance with governance, audit requirements, and data protection mandates.
14. Drive continuous reduction of manual operational work through automation.