Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company’s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group’s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.
Job Description:
* We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Azure Modernization Architect to lead our cloud transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of microservices architecture, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
* Should be hands-on in performing analysis, drive decisions, presenting the analysis results, planning the Azure consumption, building target Azure architecture, etc.
* You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-modernization solutions that drive our business forward
* Extensive experience in modernizing Java based monolith applications to Microservices based architecture on Azure
* Extensive experience in DevSecOps and SRE
Primary Responsibilities:
* Lead the design and implementation of microservices architecture on Azure.
* Architect and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure solutions using AKS.
* Design and manage PostgreSQL databases in a cloud environment.
* Collaborate with development teams to ensure best practices in microservices architecture.
* Conduct assessments of existing applications and recommend modernization strategies.
* Develop and maintain architectural documentation and guidelines.
* Ensure compliance with security and governance policies.
* Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
* Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
* Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or ARM templates.
* Oversee DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
* Design and manage Azure landing zones.
* Handle configuration, monitoring, and optimization of cloud resources.
* Manage cloud costs and optimize resource usage.
* Develop and enforce policies and governance frameworks.
* Deliver Azure cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company and assist in modernizing efforts by planning.
* Build Azure cloud solutions with related IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
* Experienced in having conversations, discussions and connect with cross functional teams, customers, and other stakeholders.
* Design solution-independent architecture models that map business services to cloud application stacks.
* Continuously manage, monitor, and update architecture models as business needs evolve and additional cloud services become available.
* Assist product owners, solution architects, and application architects in designing scalable, highly available, secure, cost-effective solutions that leverage cloud services.
* Define and document cloud solution architecture(s) including technical designs and diagrams.
* Expert level in Infrastructure & Application architecting in Azure Cloud including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
* Has strong experience in migration legacy applications to Azure Cloud with related cloud services.
* Expert in Azure cloud cost model and services.
* Coordinate and help the Development team in building the migration plans.
* Coordinate and help the Development team in building the cost-benefit analysis document.
* Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Knowledge of migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL in Azure is a plus.
* Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or ARM templates.
* Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer) are a plus.
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Created on 26/06/2025 by JR United Kingdom
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