Azure Cloud - Architecture
Posted: 09/12/2026
Job Number: K0tJQmQ0Vmp3TVBOcnVkRWVSUi92dz09
Pay Rate: 70-75 Hourly USD
Job Description
Azure Cloud - Architecture - Contractor
Location: Houston, TX (5 days onsite)
Cloud Architect
Mandatory Skills: Azure Cloud Architecture
Good to Have Skills: Performance Monitoring- Cloud Native (Aws Cloud Watch, Azure Cloud Monitor) - Testing
- Provide architectural design and implementation using Microsoft WAF and Best Practices Deliver platform support services for our Azure Greenfield environment
- Ability to development and document reusable Azure Greenfield reference architecture patterns for solutions
- Knowledgeable and experienced with GuardRight and ShiftLeft practices
- Ability to develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans facilitate testing of plans with stakeholders and document results
- Design and optimization of landing zone architectures and platform services including development of new archetypes
- Definition and application of cloud architecture standards patterns and best practices
- Evaluation and recommendation of Azure services for Greenfield adoption including participation in sanctioning and governance of these services
- Architecture reviews for new workloads and cloud migrations
- Knowledgeable of Azure Networking and familiar with Hub and Spoke deployments using Azure VWan
- Design of highly available secure and scalable cloud solutions
- Development of governance frameworks technical controls and platform guardrails
- Collaboration with Security Identity Management Platform Engineering and Governance teams
- Development of reusable architecture blueprints and deployment patterns
- Basic knowledge of implementation of IAC using Terraform
- Azure CLI Jira Confluence ServiceNow Wiz