Cloud Architect Lead

Role Overview

Cloud Architect Lead (customer-facing, senior technical role) at Eastwall. You will work with Technology Leadership and engineering teams to provide architecture leadership, oversee engagements, and deliver Azure infrastructure, application, data, and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing environments (on-premises, AWS, GCP, and others) and recommend improvements for operational efficiency, security/governance, and high availability.
• Run workshops and solution design sessions to upskill teams and define architecture and project requirements.
• Lead backlog creation, effort estimation, and solution design for migration and modernization engagements.
• Use Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to align solutions with Microsoft best practices.
• Implement repeatable solutions with Infrastructure-as-Code using Bicep/Terraform and Azure DevOps YAML pipelines.
• Perform end-to-end lift-and-shift migrations using tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Data Migration Service, and Azure VMware Solution.
• Replatform workloads toward cloud-native designs using application, data, and containerized services.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot enterprise cloud networking, routing, and hybrid connectivity.
• Communicate requirements and manage expectations with stakeholders on timelines and deliverables.
• Author robust diagrams and written technical documentation.
• Collaborate with other independent architects/engineers to provide guidance, remove blockers, and chart paths forward (not a people-management role).
• Maintain billability with utilization relief of 50–75% maximum.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of Azure experience supporting infrastructure deployments, networking deployments, and IaC (Bicep, Terraform) or scripting (PowerShell, Bash).
• 5–7+ years of systems administration experience (e.g., Windows Server, Linux, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• 3+ years of network administration experience (firewall management, routing, switching, and cloud connectivity such as ExpressRoute, site-to-site VPN, load balancing).
• Strong understanding of high availability and disaster recovery.
• Experience supporting production workloads (test and troubleshoot).
• Consultative/engineering experience working across multiple client environments.
• Candidates without Azure experience should not apply.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with additional Azure migration/replatform tooling and enterprise/global application ecosystems.