Senior Azure Architect

Job description

SUMMARY:

We’re looking for a senior Azure Architect / Consultant to lead the design and delivery of end-to-end Azure solutions. You will shape cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, drive complex migrations, implement robust security and governance controls, and optimise costs and performance, translating business requirements into scalable, resilient, and compliant technical designs for enterprise environments.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING:

You will be joining our engineering team and will be a valued member working closely in a collaborative, autonomous, cross-functional team. You will help with the following:

• Lead the design and delivery of Azure architectures across infrastructure, platform and application layers, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient.
• Build Azure landing zones aligned to the Cloud Adoption Framework, including management groups, policies, RBAC, subscription models and cost controls.
• Plan and execute migration projects such as on-prem to Azure lift-and-shift, staged migration approaches, application modernisation and identity migration to Entra ID.
• Integrate line-of-business applications into Azure environments, ensuring stable networking, identity, data flow and operational continuity.
• Produce architect-level documentation, including HLDs, LLDs, technical decision records, runbooks, implementation plans and handover documents.
• Use ARM, Bicep or Terraform to build automated and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Apply Zero Trust and security best practices across Conditional Access, Defender, Identity Protection and least-privilege RBAC.
• Design hybrid connectivity models including VNETs, subnets, VPN or ExpressRoute, DNS, routing, firewalls and private endpoints.
• Implement and support disaster recovery and business continuity solutions such as Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup and Veeam.
• Support Azure Virtual Desktop deployments, including FSLogix configuration, scaling optimisation and profile management.
• Oversee Modern Workplace dependencies when required, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Intune, Autopilot, MDM/MAM and Group Policy migrations.
• Work closely with technical teams and project managers to ensure architecture is delivered on time and in accordance with the design.
• Lead workshops, requirements discovery sessions and architecture reviews with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide support during cutovers and Go-Live windows, including occasional work outside normal business hours.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• We are looking for someone who is Microsoft certified, ideally as an Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator Associate or Security Engineer Associate.
• We expect familiarity with established architectural frameworks, such as the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework or TOGAF.
• You should have proven experience delivering Azure solutions that take into account scalability, performance, security, governance and cost optimisation.
• You should have strong experience leading Azure migration projects, including re-hosting, re-platforming and modernisation activities.
• We need someone who understands both cloud-native and hybrid Active Directory environments, including GPOs, DFS, DHCP, certificate services and identity models.
• You must have hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using ARM, Bicep or Terraform, alongside automation using PowerShell.
• You should be comfortable applying Zero Trust and security-first design, including Conditional Access, Defender, Identity Protection and RBAC.
• We expect awareness of enterprise-grade tooling, such as Cisco Umbrella, Defender, Trust Layer, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Veeam and monitoring platforms.
• Experience working with Azure Virtual Desktop, including FSLogix and performance tuning, will be important.
• You should have experience supporting Microsoft 365 services and migrations, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Intune, Autopilot and domain join to Azure AD.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills are essential, especially when translating business needs into technical solutions.
• We are looking for someone who is comfortable working in a consultancy or MSP environment, where client-facing delivery is part of the role.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal

AWESOME BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience with tenant-to-tenant migrations and enterprise-scale, multi-subscription designs.
• Experience implementing complete Zero Trust architectures.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and large-scale cost-optimisation strategies.
• Exposure to policy-as-code, blueprinting or broader platform-engineering approaches.
• Experience with AKS or serverless architectures where they intersect with infrastructure.
• Pre-sales or scoping experience, including proposals, estimations or SoWs.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues, and help create our company culture
• A culture in which we don’t criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
• An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
• The possibility to grow and experience different projects
• Fully remote
• Ongoing Training & Mentoring
• The possibility of travelling

- ATTENTION! THIS POSITION IS FOR PORTUGAL OR BRAZIL BASED ONLY