Senior Azure Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the architectural design for Azure platforms and initiatives.

• Contribute to the target-state architecture, encompassing landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, hub-and-spoke networking, API Management, messaging, and identity.

• Establish availability, recovery time, and recovery point objectives.

• Design and routinely test multi-region and disaster recovery strategies.

• Develop and enforce Azure standards via Azure Policy, reference architectures, and reusable infrastructure-as-code modules.

• Review designs from implementation vendors and partners prior to construction, ensuring compliance with established standards throughout the delivery process.

• Lead the network architecture for private, edge, and global traffic management.

• Manage DNS, hybrid connectivity, and ensure zero-trust network security and segmentation.

• Collaborate with Information Security to satisfy HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST requirements.

• Oversee cloud expenditures for assigned projects within approved budgets utilizing FinOps practices.

• Design foundational platforms for AI workloads, including Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry.

• Implement and enhance observability through LGTM, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.

• Act as an escalation point for intricate Azure incidents and lead the resolution of design issues.

• Provide mentorship to Architecture and Infrastructure engineers.

• Document architectural decisions and maintain both current-state and target-state diagrams.

• Deliver weekly updates on architectural initiatives to DataSpring management.

• Adhere to DataSpring Policies and Procedures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering.

• A minimum of 5 years designing enterprise-scale Azure environments as a cloud or solutions architect.

• Proven experience leading an Azure landing zone or platform design.

• Practical experience with disaster recovery design.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Extensive hands-on knowledge of Azure architecture, including landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, and the Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks.

• Strong expertise in Azure networking, including hub-and-spoke, Virtual WAN, Private Link, Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Front Door, Azure Firewall, and hybrid connectivity.

• Experience in designing multi-region, highly available, and disaster recovery architectures for PaaS and container workloads.

• Knowledge in identity architecture with Microsoft Entra ID across multiple tenants, managed identities, RBAC, Conditional Access, and privileged access.

• Proficiency in Terraform; ability to write and review infrastructure-as-code modules.

• Familiarity with Bicep is a plus.

• Experience with CI/CD for infrastructure.

• Cloud security experience in a regulated environment, including HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST.

• Knowledge of encryption, key management, logging, and defense-in-depth strategies.

• Experience with FinOps related to Azure cost data, spend forecasting, and cost-focused design.

• Ability to articulate design trade-offs to engineers, vendors, and executives, and to challenge vendor designs with supporting evidence.

• Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor.

• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or SAFe methodologies is a plus.

• Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries is strongly preferred.

• Experience directing vendor or managed-service delivery teams is advantageous.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) is strongly preferred.

• Azure networking or security specialty certifications are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) with company contributions and matching.

• Paid parental leave.

• Tuition assistance.

• Generous paid time off.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Support for professional growth.