Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Apetan Consulting LLC is seeking an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect to design and implement secure, scalable, and automated Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on enterprise cloud migration from on-premises and VMware environments, Azure landing zones and networking, infrastructure modernization, Terraform automation, Azure DevOps, and collaboration with cross-functional technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead assessment, planning, design, and execution of on-premises to Azure migration and cloud transformation initiatives
- Design and support migration strategies for VMware-based workloads using Azure VMware Solution, Azure-native services, and appropriate migration tooling
- Create and review High-Level Designs and Low-Level Designs for Azure compute, storage, networking, security, and migration architectures
- Design and implement Azure Landing Zones aligned with enterprise standards, including subscriptions, management groups, policies, identity, networking, security, monitoring, and governance
- Architect and manage Azure networking components such as VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, load balancers, VPN, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, and VNet peering. Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure provisioning and configuration
- Implement infrastructure deployment automation using Azure DevOps pipelines, Git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, and approval-based deployment models
- Support infrastructure modernization by automating provisioning, configuration, governance enforcement, and operational tasks
- Work with security teams to apply RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault, network security controls, and compliance standards
- Collaborate with application, platform, DevOps, operations, and business teams to translate requirements into secure and scalable cloud architecture
- Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, migration, and automation issues. Support post-migration optimization, including performance, reliability, cost, monitoring, and operational readiness
- Document architecture decisions, deployment procedures, migration plans, and operational handover materials
Skills
- • 10+ years of overall IT infrastructure / cloud experience
- • 5+ years of hands-on Azure infrastructure experience
- • 2+ years of architecture or technical lead experience in cloud migration, Azure platform engineering, or cloud transformation programs
- • Candidate Profile The ideal candidate should be a strong Azure infrastructure architect who can design and implement solutions, not just advise at a high level
- • The person should be comfortable working across migration, networking, landing zone, automation, and DevOps areas, and should be able to guide engineering teams during implementation
- • They should have a strong understanding of how enterprise VMware workloads can be migrated or extended into Azure using Azure VMware Solution and Azure-native services
- • Practical experience with VMware, Azure networking, Terraform, and DevOps automation is highly preferred
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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