Senior Consultant - Azure Cloud

Coretek is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud consultant to join our team. This client-facing delivery role designs, builds, and implements secure, scalable, and well-governed Microsoft Azure solutions. The engineer will translate business and technical requirements into production-ready Azure architectures, landing zones, infrastructure code, and deployment pipelines aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Azure Well-Architected Framework.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on Azure engineering expertise with consulting discipline. This role leads technical workstreams across new Azure deployments, cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and platform engineering engagements, partnering with client stakeholders, solution architects, security teams, application owners, and project managers from discovery through handoff.

Key Responsibilities

Client Discovery, Architecture & Design

• Lead technical discovery workshops to assess client requirements, constraints, dependencies, risks, and target outcomes.

• Develop high-level and detailed Azure solution designs, implementation plans, architecture diagrams, bills of materials, and technical decisions.

• Design Azure landing zones and platform foundations aligned with CAF enterprise-scale principles, including management groups, subscriptions, identity, networking, governance, security, monitoring, and operational readiness.

• Provide design guidance across Azure IaaS, PaaS, containers, data, identity, networking, security, resiliency, and business continuity services.

• Present solution options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive client stakeholders.

Azure Build & Implementation

• Build and configure Azure environments for client projects, including subscriptions, resource groups, virtual networks, private connectivity, compute, storage, AKS, App Services, databases, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.

• Implement secure hybrid connectivity using VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Private Link, DNS, NSGs, and routing controls.

• Configure Microsoft Entra ID integration, managed identities, RBAC, privileged access, Conditional Access dependencies, and workload identity patterns.

• Implement Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, logging, monitoring, alerting, tagging, budgets, and governance controls as part of the platform build.

• Validate solutions through functional, security, performance, failover, and operational-readiness testing.

Infrastructure as Code & DevOps Pipelines

• Design, develop, test, and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Bicep; support ARM templates where required.

• Create modular, version-controlled code with environment configuration, state management, secrets handling, policy checks, documentation, and automated testing.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions for infrastructure validation, security scanning, approvals, deployment, and promotion across environments.

• Automate Azure deployments and operational tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, REST APIs, and scripting.

• Establish source-control, branching, pull-request, release, and code-review practices suitable for client delivery.

Cloud Migration & Modernization

• Assess and migrate workloads from on-premises data centers and other cloud platforms to Azure.

• Plan and execute discovery, dependency mapping, readiness assessment, migration-wave planning, landing-zone readiness, cutover, validation, and stabilization activities.

• Use appropriate Azure migration tooling and patterns for servers, databases, storage, applications, identity, and network connectivity.

• Recommend rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retain, or retire strategies based on business value, technical fit, risk, cost, and timeline.

• Design rollback, coexistence, data-protection, business-continuity, and disaster-recovery approaches for migration events.

Project Delivery & Client Handoff

• Own assigned technical workstreams, estimates, delivery milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and status updates.

• Collaborate with project managers and architects to deliver agreed scope, quality, schedule, and acceptance criteria.

• Produce professional client deliverables including as-built documentation, architecture diagrams, configuration records, code repositories, pipeline documentation, test evidence, and operational runbooks.

• Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions and provide a structured transition to client operations or managed services teams.

• Support presales discovery, solution validation, effort estimation, and statements of work when requested.

• Ensure implemented solutions meet security, compliance, supportability, cost-management, and operational-readiness expectations.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on Azure infrastructure, cloud engineering, or cloud consulting experience.

• 3+ years designing and delivering Azure projects in a professional services, consulting, systems integration, or project-based client environment.

• Demonstrated experience designing and building Azure landing zones and workloads using Infrastructure as Code.

• Demonstrated experience creating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.

• Hands-on experience migrating workloads from on-premises environments and/or another public cloud to Azure.

• Experience leading technical client workshops, documenting requirements, presenting designs, and managing delivery commitments.

• Experience delivering production Azure environments with security, governance, monitoring, resiliency, and operational handoff built into the solution.

Technical Expertise

• Azure architecture
• CAF-aligned landing zones
• Terraform and Bicep
• Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions
• Azure networking
• Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC
• Azure IaaS and PaaS
• AKS and container platforms
• Azure Policy and governance
• Defender for Cloud
• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics
• Backup and Site Recovery
• PowerShell and Azure CLI
• Migration assessment and execution

Certification Requirements

• Required: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).

• Required: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, including Exam AZ-305.

• Preferred: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, including Exam AZ-400.

• Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700).

Desired Characteristics

• Strong consulting presence and client-facing communication skills.

• Ability to convert ambiguous requirements into practical technical designs and delivery plans.

• Hands-on, outcome-focused approach with strong ownership and accountability.

• Ability to manage multiple project priorities while maintaining quality and documentation standards.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, estimation, and risk-management skills.

• Commitment to secure-by-design, automation-first, and repeatable engineering practices.

• Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across architecture, security, application, data, and project-management teams.