Professional Services Delivery Architect, Specialty Domain IN (Azure)

Overview & Responsibilities

Location – Remote

The Azure Solution Architect acts as a technical consultant and trusted advisor, responsible for gathering customer business requirements and translating them into secure, scalable, and cost-effective Azure solution blueprints. The role has a strong focus on complex networking, Azure Landing Zones, large-scale migrations, governance, optimization, and licensing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities & Required Skills

• Act as a consultant to customers, engaging with business and technical stakeholders to gather and document business requirements.

• Translate business requirements into end-to-end Azure solution blueprints, including architecture diagrams and design documentation.

• Assess current-state environments (on-premises and cloud) and define target-state Azure architectures.

• Design and implement Azure Landing Zones aligned with enterprise and Cloud Adoption Framework best practices.

• Architect complex Azure networking solutions including Hub-Spoke topology, VNet peering, ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Firewall, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Load Balancer, and Application Gateway.

• Design, integrate, and manage third-party network security appliances such as Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls in Azure.

• Define and execute cloud migration strategies including rehost, replatform, and modernization approaches.

• Hands-on experience with Azure Migrate for discovery, assessment, and migration planning.

• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and Terraform.

• Conduct Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA) to support cloud transformation decisions.

• Design Azure identity, security, and governance using Azure AD / Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, and security best practices.

• Drive architectural discussions around security, compliance, scalability, performance, HA/DR, and operational readiness.

• Guide engineering and delivery teams to ensure implementations align with the approved architecture blueprint.

• Work closely with customers to ensure successful delivery, adoption, and ongoing optimization of Azure solutions.

Experience & Education

• 12+ years of overall IT experience.

• 10+ years of experience as a Solution Architect in cloud and datacenter migration projects.

• Strong hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale Azure solutions.

• Experience with third-party network security appliances such as Fortinet and Palo Alto in cloud environments.

• Azure certifications preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.

• TOGAF certification (or equivalent enterprise architecture framework) is preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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