Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Technical Consultant

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

📋 Description

• Serve as a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders of clients, translating business objectives into cloud and infrastructure strategies.

• Travel to client locations to facilitate discovery workshops, conduct current-state evaluations, and perform gap analyses.

• Generate scoped and prioritized recommendations based on assessment results.

• Collaborate with sales and presales teams on solution design, effort estimations, statements of work, and executive proposal presentations.

• Identify additional opportunities within ProArch's managed services, security, and data practices.

• Architect secure and scalable Azure landing zones, identity management, networking, and governance in line with the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework.

• Plan and oversee migrations and modernizations from on-premises and hybrid settings to Azure.

• Initiate cost optimization and FinOps reviews focusing on Azure consumption and Microsoft licensing.

• Design and troubleshoot Windows Server and Windows client environments, including Active Directory, Group Policy, and hybrid identity using Entra ID.

• Establish strategies for endpoint management and patching utilizing Intune and other Microsoft tools.

• Set standards for resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Create architecture documents, runbooks, and summaries suitable for executive review.

• Travel for on-site solution delivery as required by engagements.

• Guide engineers through implementation and ensure a smooth transition to managed services and SOC teams.

• Mentor engineers and contribute reusable patterns to the Consulting practice.

• Independently lead client assessments and architectural engagements within 90 days.

• Deliver projects within scope and budget while ensuring high client satisfaction.

• Transform assessment findings into follow-on projects or managed services.

• Contribute reusable assessment templates and reference architectures to the practice.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7–10 years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering, with a minimum of 3 years in an architect or lead position.

• At least 2 years in a client-facing consulting, professional services, or managed service provider (MSP) environment.

• Willingness to travel for client engagement and on-site service delivery.

• Demonstrated success in delivering at least one complete end-to-end Azure migration or modernization project.

• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure, including hypervisors, Windows Server, Windows client environments, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS/DHCP, and hybrid identity with Entra ID.

• Proficiency in Azure architecture involving compute, storage, networking, identity, governance, policy, RBAC, management groups, and monitoring.

• Capability to facilitate workshops, craft clear recommendations, and present to executive audiences.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and scripting using PowerShell, along with Bicep, ARM, or Terraform.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and Conditional Access design.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Microsoft 365 tenant architecture and licensing optimization, including E3/E5, Azure reservations, and savings plans.

• Preferred: Experience with Azure, AWS, or multi-cloud environments.

• Preferred: Background in regulated industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, or energy.

• Preferred: Experience with Microsoft Purview, including data classification, sensitivity labels, DLP, information protection, and compliance assessments.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Microsoft Defender suite, including Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, Identity, Cloud Apps, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, and SOC operations.

• Preferred certifications: AZ-305, AZ-104, SC-100, SC-200, or SC-400.

• A Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Support for certifications.

• Access to Microsoft and AWS partner programs.

• Clear advancement path toward principal architect or practice leadership.

• Collaboration with an in-house 24x7 SOC, managed services, and data teams across the US, UK, and India.

• Opportunity to work directly with client leadership on impactful Microsoft cloud and security initiatives.