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review designs, IaC pull requests, and production change plans.\n• Mentor senior engineers and architects; contribute to capability uplift through internal academies and AWS certification programmes.\n• Build reusable accelerators, blueprints, and platform engineering products that reduce time-to-value across engagements.\n• Drive continuous improvement of Minfy's delivery methodology, including FinOps, SRE, and DevSecOps practices.\nMust Have\n15 to 20 years of progressive IT experience with at least 6 years in hands-on cloud architecture on Azure.\nProven track record designing and delivering enterprise-scale Azure platforms, including Azure landing zones (management groups and multi-subscription design per the Cloud Adoption Framework) and large-scale migrations (200+ workloads).\nDeep expertise across core Azure services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Network (VNet), AKS/Container Apps, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Hyperscale / Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Azure Front Door/CDN, Azure DNS & Traffic Manager, Microsoft Entra ID & Azure RBAC, Key Vault, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel.\nStrong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform mandatory; 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