Senior Azure Cloud Engineer / Lead Architect (L2/L3)

• Experience: 10–12 Years
• Type: Full-Time
  

Role Overview

Seeking a hands-on Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (L2/L3) with 8–10 years of experience and proven end-to-end Azure migration delivery to bridge deep operational execution (L2: incident response, performance tuning, patching) with strategic architecture (L3: Azure landing zones, multi-subscription governance, high availability, and DR).

Key Responsibilities

L3 Architecture & Strategy

• Landing Zone & Governance: Design secure Azure landing zones using management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, and RBAC aligned with the Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks.
• Azure Migration & DR (Mandatory): Lead discovery, Azure Migrate assessments, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, VMware/Hyper-V/on-premises and cloud-to-Azure workload moves, replication, test migration, cutover/rollback, and post-migration validation. Plan recovery with Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup.
• Containerization: Architect microservices platforms using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Apps.
  

L2 Operations & Engineering

• Incident Escalation & RCA: Serve as final escalation for P1/P2 production incidents; lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• IaC & Automation: Author and maintain Terraform/Bicep modules and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions).
• Hybrid Networking: Deploy and manage hub-spoke VNets, Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, and VNet peering.
• Security & Observability: Secure Azure with Entra ID, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Azure Firewall, and WAF; implement Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• FinOps: Optimize spending with rightsizing, Azure Reservations, Savings Plans for Compute, budgets, and Azure Cost Management.
  

Core Skill Set

CategoryTechnologies / Tools

Compute & ContainersAzure Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Azure Functions, AKS, Container AppsStorage & Databases (DB Preferred)Blob Storage, Managed Disks, Azure Files; familiarity with Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure VMs, or PostgreSQL is good to haveAzure Migration (Required)Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, discovery and assessment, VMware/Hyper-V migrations, migration waves, test cutovers, rollback and hypercareNetworking & SecurityVNets, Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Private Link, Entra ID, Azure Firewall, Key VaultDevOps & ScriptingTerraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PowerShell, Python, CI/CDData Engineering & AnalyticsAzure Data Factory, Data Lake Storage Gen2, Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Event Hubs, Microsoft FabricMonitoring & FinOpsAzure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Defender for Cloud, Azure Cost Management

Qualifications & Certifications

• Experience: 8–10 years in IT infrastructure, including 5+ years hands-on with Microsoft Azure and demonstrated delivery of Azure migration projects.
• Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (Preferred); Azure Administrator Associate (Desirable).
• Database Knowledge (Good to Have): Working familiarity with Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure VMs, database backup/restore, and connectivity. Specialist DBA experience is not required.