Cloud Solutions Architect (Microsoft Azure) at Devoteam

The Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure. The role focuses on enabling organizations to migrate, modernize, and optimize their workloads on the cloud by defining architecture strategies, implementing cloud foundations, and enabling DevOps practices that support automated and reliable delivery. Roles and Responsibilities • Architectural Design: Design end-to-end cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure supporting enterprise workloads and cloud-native applications. • Cloud Migration: Lead workload migration from on-premises or other cloud platforms to Azure using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and best practices. • DevOps & Automation: Define DevOps and platform engineering architectures including CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub), infrastructure automation, and release management. • Migration Strategy: Define migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild, and replace approaches (the 5 R's). • Landing Zones: Design and implement Azure Landing Zones aligned with security, governance, and compliance requirements using Azure Policy and Blueprints. • Infrastructure Design: Architect scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions leveraging Azure services such as Azure Virtual Machines, Azure SQL, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure App Service. • Assessment & Planning: Lead migration assessments including application discovery, dependency mapping, and migration wave planning using tools like Azure Migrate. • Infrastructure-as-Code: Collaborate with engineering teams to implement IaC using tools such as Terraform or Bicep. • Operational Excellence: Ensure operational readiness through monitoring, logging, and reliability best practices using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance throughout cloud migration and modernization programs. • Pre-Sales Support: Support pre-sales activities including architecture workshops and technical proposal development. • Capability Building: Contribute to internal capability development, best practices, and reusable architecture patterns.