Role Overview
Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions, primarily on Microsoft Azure. The role combines hands-on cloud engineering, solution architecture, customer engagement, migration, and cloud optimisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement Azure cloud architectures for secure, scalable, and high-performance environments.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, architecture diagrams, and implementation plans.
- Manage Azure compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Support cloud migration, modernisation, hybrid-cloud integration, and Windows/Linux workloads.
- Deploy and support Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, and related cloud services.
- Conduct customer workshops, technical presentations, proof of concepts, and architecture reviews.
- Support RFP/RFQ responses, cloud sizing, cost optimisation, and technical proposals.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and support automation, IaC, and DevOps/CI/CD practices.
- Ensure security, governance, availability, performance, and successful operational handover.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- 6–8 years or more of experience in infrastructure solution design and implementation.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in cloud architecture and/or cloud operations, preferably Azure and Microsoft 365.
- Strong knowledge of Azure infrastructure, networking, storage, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL/Managed Instance.
- Understanding of cloud security, identity, governance, and data protection.
- Mandatory: Azure certification.
- Multi-cloud and DevOps/release-management experience are added advantages.
Core Competencies
- Strong solution architecture and technical problem-solving skills.
- Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Technical leadership, stakeholder management, and adaptability.
- Willingness to travel for project assignments when required.