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Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs.\nOur organization is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI. We take pride in embodying Microsoft's mission of empowerment, promoting a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and fostering a culture of inclusivity where everyone is encouraged to share their unique perspectives and be their authentic selves. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.\nThe Infrastructure & AI Architectis responsible for designing secure, scalable, resilient, and AI-ready enterprise platforms on Microsoft Azure.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nThe 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 architecturewith modern AI platform, security, governance, automation, and operational designcapabilities.\nThe architect is expected to provide technical leadership from discovery and architecture through implementation, governance, and operational readiness.\nQualifications\nBachelor'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.\no 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)\nAzure Infrastructure Architecture\nDesign enterprise-scale Azure architectures using Azure Landing Zones and cloud adoption principles.\n\nDefine subscription, management group, resource organization, naming, tagging, and governance models.\n\nDesign hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN architectures.\n\nArchitect hybrid connectivity using ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Virtual WAN, and private connectivity.\n\nDesign Azure networking including VNets, subnets, routing, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, load balancers, NAT Gateway, Private Link, and Private Endpoints.\n\nDefine scalable DNS and private DNS architecture.\n\nDesign resilient solutions across Availability Zones and Azure regions.\n\nDefine business continuity, disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability strategies.\n\nIdentity, Security & Governance\nDesign identity architectures using Microsoft Entra ID.\n\nDefine managed identity, workload identity, role-based access control, privileged access, and least-privilege models.\n\nImplement security architecture using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Policy, Key Vault, encryption, and customer-managed keys.\n\nDesign secure administrative and privileged-access patterns.\n\nDefine network segmentation and Zero Trust architecture.\n\nEnsure architecture aligns with enterprise security, regulatory, data sovereignty, and compliance requirements.\n\nObservability & Operations\nDesign centralized and distributed monitoring architectures using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Microsoft Sentinel.\n\nDefine logging, monitoring, alerting, operational dashboards, and telemetry strategies.\n\nDesign infrastructure that supports SRE and modern cloud operations.\n\nDefine operational readiness, service health, capacity management, incident response, and troubleshooting approaches.\n\nDrive infrastructure automation and configuration consistency.\n\nAI & AI-Ready Infrastructure\nDesign secure enterprise AI platforms using Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI services and supporting Azure capabilities.\n\nDefine networking, identity, compute, storage, data, security, and monitoring requirements for enterprise AI workloads.\n\nDesign private and controlled access patterns for AI environments.\n\nArchitect solutions supporting:\n\nGenerative AI\n\nAI agents\n\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)\n\nEnterprise search\n\nVector and semantic search\n\nEmbeddings\n\nModel endpoints and AI services\n\nDefine secure connectivity between AI applications, enterprise data sources, APIs, and business systems.\n\nEstablish AI platform governance, responsible AI, security, monitoring, and operational controls.\n\nSupport integration of AI solutions with the broader Microsoft cloud ecosystem.\n\nAutomation & Platform Engineering\nDrive Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM templates and/or Terraform.\n\nDefine reusable architecture patterns, templates, and platform components.\n\nSupport CI/CD and DevOps-based infrastructure deployment.\n\nPromote policy-driven governance and automated environment provisioning.\n\nDesign self-service platform capabilities where appropriate.\n\nArchitecture Leadership\nLead customer architecture and technical design workshops.\n\nGather functional and non-functional requirements.\n\nDevelop High-Level Designs and detailed technical designs.\n\nProduce architecture diagrams, decision documents, implementation guidance, and design standards.\n\nConduct architecture reviews and identify technical risks and dependencies.\n\nProvide technical direction to engineering and implementation teams.\n\nTroubleshoot complex architecture, networking, identity, security, and platform issues.\n\nConduct design reviews and ensure implementation remains aligned to the approved architecture.\n\nCustomer & Stakeholder Engagement\nAct as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects and technology leadership.\n\nExplain complex cloud and AI concepts in clear business language.\n\nPresent architecture options, trade-offs, risks, costs, and recommendations.\n\nCollaborate with application, security, network, data, AI, governance, and operations teams.\n\nHelp customers establish cloud and AI adoption roadmaps.\n\nSupport solution estimation, implementation planning, risk management, and technical governance.\n\nRequired Technical Skills\nAzure Infrastructure\nAzure Landing Zones\n\nHub-and-Spoke / Virtual WAN\n\nAzure networking and routing\n\nExpressRoute and VPN\n\nAzure Firewall\n\nApplication Gateway / WAF\n\nPrivate Link / Private Endpoints\n\nAzure DNS / Private DNS\n\nAzure Load Balancer\n\nAzure compute and storage\n\nAvailability Zones and multi-region architecture\n\nBackup and disaster recovery\n\nIdentity & Security\nMicrosoft Entra ID\n\nAzure role-based access control\n\nManaged identities\n\nKey Vault\n\nCustomer-managed keys\n\nAzure Policy\n\nDefender for Cloud\n\nMicrosoft Sentinel\n\nZero Trust security principles\n\nAI\nMicrosoft Foundry / Azure AI\n\nGenerative AI architecture\n\nAI agents\n\nRAG architecture\n\nAI Search\n\nVector and semantic search\n\nModel integration\n\nPrompt and AI security\n\nResponsible AI\n\nAI monitoring and governance\n\nMonitoring & Operations\nAzure Monitor\n\nLog Analytics\n\nApplication Insights\n\nMicrosoft Sentinel\n\nCloud operational models and SRE concepts\n\nAutomation\nBicep / ARM\n\nTerraform\n\nAzure DevOps / GitHub\n\nCI/CD\n\nPowerShell / Azure CLI\n\nArchitecture Competencies\nThe successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to:\nConvert business requirements into end-to-end Azure architecture.\n\nMake architecture decisions across infrastructure, networking, security, identity, data, operations, and AI.\n\nEvaluate multiple technical approaches and clearly explain trade-offs.\n\nDesign for security, reliability, scalability, performance, manageability, and cost.\n\nLead complex enterprise architecture discussions involving multiple technology domains.\n\nBalance Microsoft platform capabilities with customer constraints and existing enterprise environments.\n\nMove comfortably between whiteboard architecture, detailed technical design, and implementation troubleshooting.\n\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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