Senior Azure Platform Architect

Client: TCS | Engagement: Full-time | Work mode: ONSITE | Rate: 0-90 USD | Experience: 10+ | Publisher job id: 10894237

Role Overview

The Senior IT Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, modernizing, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure platforms across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and native-cloud environments. This role provides strategic architectural leadership, ensures operational excellence, and guides the adoption of modern infrastructure frameworks, automation, observability, and governance practices that enable secure, scalable, and resilient IT services. Key Responsibilities: Lead strategic architecture and design initiatives, aligning infrastructure technology with future business needs and driving technology adoption, upgrades, and modernization. Develop comprehensive blueprints and high-level designs for software, hardware, and network infrastructure, ensuring they meet business and technical requirements. Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tool standards for declarative provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle management. Drive modernization efforts including automation, IaC, containerization, monitoring/observability, and AIOps capabilities. Develop and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure system resilience and availability. Evaluate vendor solutions, select appropriate technologies, and collaborate with IT teams to guide the implementation of technical standards. Serve as a technical thought leader, guiding enterprise decisions related to cloud engineering, operations, ITSM, and infrastructure services. Transform complex business and technical requirements into detailed architectural blueprints and set infrastructure standards. Manage technology costs through cost frameworks, capacity planning, and ROI analysis. Partner with operations, engineering, and security teams to ensure resilient, performant infrastructure services that meet SLAs and compliance. Lead service industrialization efforts, including standardized service catalog patterns, incident/event workflows, and operational readiness. Ensure infrastructure architectures adhere to governance frameworks, security policies, and risk management guidelines. Build documentation, architectural standards, and technical guidelines, conducting design reviews and providing architectural oversight. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (IT Operations, Cloud, Network, Security, Application groups) to align solutions and ensure end-to-end service quality. Mentor engineers and foster a high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement, providing executive-level communication and technical leadership. Required Skills: BS in computer science or an equivalent field of study. Deep expertise in hybrid cloud (Azure), virtualization, and Windows/Linux platforms. Qualifications: 10+ years of progressive experience in IT Infrastructure Engineering or Architecture.