Infra & AI Architect

The architect works with customers, engineering teams, security teams, and delivery stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into practical Azure architectures. The role combines strong Azure infrastructure architecture with modern AI platform, security, governance, automation, and operational design capabilities. The architect is expected to provide technical leadership from discovery and architecture through implementation, governance, and operational readiness. Design secure administrative and privileged-access patterns. Ensure architecture aligns with enterprise security, regulatory, data sovereignty, and compliance requirements. Design infrastructure that supports SRE and modern cloud operations. Design private and controlled access patterns for AI environments. Establish AI platform governance, responsible AI, security, monitoring, and operational controls. Support CI/CD and DevOps-based infrastructure deployment. Design self-service platform capabilities where appropriate. Collaborate with application, security, network, data, AI, governance, and operations teams. Support solution estimation, implementation planning, risk management, and technical governance. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 14+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain of Infra & AI. o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 14+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) Azure Infrastructure Architecture Design enterprise-scale Azure architectures using Azure Landing Zones and cloud adoption principles. Define subscription, management group, resource organization, naming, tagging, and governance models. Design hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN architectures. Architect hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Virtual WAN, and private connectivity. Design Azure networking including VNets, subnets, routing, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, load balancers, NAT Gateway, Private Link, and Private Endpoints. Define scalable DNS and private DNS architecture. Design resilient solutions across Availability Zones and Azure regions. Define business continuity, disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability strategies. Lead customer architecture and technical design workshops. Gather functional and non-functional requirements. Develop High-Level Designs and detailed technical designs. Produce architecture diagrams, decision documents, implementation guidance, and design standards. Conduct architecture reviews and identify technical risks and dependencies. Provide technical direction to engineering and implementation teams. Troubleshoot complex architecture, networking, identity, security, and platform issues. Conduct design reviews and ensure implementation remains aligned to the approved architecture. Azure Infrastructure Azure Landing Zones Hub-and-Spoke / Virtual WAN Azure networking and routing ExpressRoute and VPN Azure Firewall Application Gateway / WAF Private Link / Private Endpoints Azure DNS / Private DNS Azure Load Balancer Azure compute and storage Availability Zones and multi-region architecture Backup and disaster recovery The successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to: Convert business requirements into end-to-end Azure architecture. Make architecture decisions across infrastructure, networking, security, identity, data, operations, and AI. Evaluate multiple technical approaches and clearly explain trade-offs. Design for security, reliability, scalability, performance, manageability, and cost. Lead complex enterprise architecture discussions involving multiple technology domains. Move comfortably between whiteboard architecture, detailed technical design, and implementation troubleshooting.