Cloud Architect

ValueLabs is hiring for Principal Azure Platform Architect role.

Exp: 10+Years

Location: Hyderabad

WFO: Hybrid mode

Notice Period: Imm to 30days

Primary Skills: Azure Architect, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure firewall, App Gateway, Application Security.

Below is the detailed JD

We are looking for a Principal Azure Platform Architect to define, own, and evolve our enterprise-wide Azure cloud platform. This is a high-impact leadership role with end-to-end accountability for cloud architecture, platform reliability, security, identity, data services, and AI enablement.

As the technical authority and platform owner, you will set the architectural vision, establish guardrails, and enable multiple engineering teams to deliver securely and efficiently on a stable, scalable, and well-governed cloud foundation.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive the Azure platform strategy and roadmap
• Define and enforce enterprise standards, reference architectures, and best practices
• Make high-impact decisions across security, scalability, reliability, and cost
• Guide architecture for critical workloads and balance long-term strategy with delivery needs
• Enable adoption of modern deployment models (Blue/Green, Canary, Zero-downtime)
• Champion DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation
• Lead platform foundations: landing zones, governance, subscription design, and secure defaults
• Drive Zero Trust security, monitoring, and cost optimization strategies
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior engineering and technology leadership

Core Expertise

• Enterprise-scale Azure platform ownership
• Containers & compute (AKS, App Services, Service Fabric)
• Identity & access (Azure Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access)
• Networking (hub-and-spoke, private endpoints, secure routing)
• Data services (SQL, Cosmos DB, Redis, Storage)
• AI enablement (Azure OpenAI Service, governance, cost controls)
• CI/CD, IaC (ARM, Bicep, Terraform)

Preferred Experience

• Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
• Azure certifications

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