- Lead the enterprise Microsoft Azure strategy, roadmap, and cloud-adoption program.
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of Senior Cloud Engineers.
- Partner with application and business teams to assess workloads and create cloud migration and modernization plans.
- Establish Azure landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, policies, access controls, tagging, and governance standards.
- Drive an automation-first approach using infrastructure as code, reusable deployment patterns, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead the development of self-service cloud capabilities that allow teams to deploy approved Azure services efficiently.
- Oversee Azure compute, storage, networking, containers, platform services, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Promote cloud-native architectures, managed services, containers, serverless technologies, and modern application patterns.
- Lead the adoption of Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, AIOps, and intelligent automation to improve engineering productivity and operational support.
- Partner with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to ensure Azure solutions meet security, regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Establish FinOps practices for cloud forecasting, cost allocation, consumption reporting, rightsizing, and optimization.
- Use Jira to manage engineering backlogs, roadmaps, epics, priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
- Use ServiceNow to support cloud requests, incidents, problems, changes, configuration management, and service delivery workflows.
- Define and report cloud-adoption metrics, delivery progress, platform health, cost trends, risks, and business outcomes.
- Evaluate new Azure services and technology products that improve cloud adoption, reliability, automation, and client experience.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for Azure platform, cloud engineering, and adoption-related issues.
- Maintain strategic relationships with Microsoft and other cloud technology partners.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience leading enterprise Azure, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or cloud-adoption programs.
- 5+ years of Azure architecture across compute, storage, networking, containers, platform services, monitoring, and resiliency.
- 5+ years experience designing Azure landing zones and implementing cloud governance using Azure Policy, management groups, role-based access control, tagging, and cost-management controls.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using technologies such as Terraform, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, or GitHub.
- Experience leading cloud migrations, application modernization, and workload-placement decisions.
- Experience with Azure security, cloud risk management, regulatory controls, and audit requirements.
- Strong understanding of cloud financial management, forecasting, licensing, and cost optimization.
- Experience using Jira to manage technical delivery and ServiceNow to support enterprise service-management processes.
- Strong executive communication, leadership, planning, and stakeholder-management skills.
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in leading enterprise Azure strategies, cloud engineering, and governance while fostering team development and driving cloud adoption initiatives. Proficient in implementing automation, managing cloud financial practices, and ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Azure Architecture
- Infrastructure As Code
- Cloud Governance
- Cloud Financial Management
- Executive Communication
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Azure Compute
- Azure Storage
- Azure Networking
- Azure Containers
- Azure Platform Services
- Terraform
- PowerShell
- Azure DevOps
- Cloud Migration
- Application Modernization
Soft Skills
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Planning
Industry Keywords
- Cloud Adoption
- Cloud Risk Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Audit Requirements
- FinOps
Tools & Technologies
- Jira
- ServiceNow