Azure Cloud Architect

Callibrity • Cincinnati, OH

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Callibrity is seeking an Azure Cloud Architect to run a high-visibility Azure architecture review for one of their established financial services clients. This role involves owning the technical direction of the assessment from start to finish, including defining questions, gathering evidence, making recommendations, and presenting findings. The architect will direct a Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer and partner with a Service Delivery Manager, serving as the primary technical client contact. Success is measured by the clarity and consensus of the findings among senior leadership and the viability of the resulting roadmap through the client's budget cycle.

Requirements

• Approximately 15 years of experience architecting, building, and operating complex software and infrastructure platforms, with substantial depth on Azure and meaningful exposure to hybrid and on-premises environments.
• A track record of guiding clients through full cloud transformation journeys — from initial assessment through landing-zone design, migration, and steady-state operations.
• Deep, current expertise in Azure Landing Zone design, management group and subscription strategy, hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN network topologies, ExpressRoute and VPN resiliency patterns, and private access and DNS integration.
• Strong command of identity architecture on Microsoft Entra ID, including Conditional Access, MFA enforcement, privileged-role design, PIM, Azure Policy coverage, and the practical realities of consolidating production Active Directory under Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience leading Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, with Terraform as a primary tool and working knowledge of Bicep and Azure Verified Modules.
• Familiarity with common Azure DevOps deployment patterns and what “code-driven, team-owned” looks like in practice.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical findings into fundable, prioritized roadmaps that survive contact with finance, audit, and executive leadership.
• Direct experience delivering assessment work in regulated environments — financial services, insurance, or healthcare — and comfort operating inside the governance rhythms of a federally chartered or similarly regulated institution.
• Senior-presence communication: confident in front of a CIO and equally credible in a working session with the engineers who will operate what you recommend.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience writing assessment reports that are read by mixed audiences — a report you can point to where the executive summary and the technical appendices both did their job.
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Cybersecurity Architect Expert.
• Experience standing up platform-engineering operating models that replaced ticket-driven infrastructure with self-service, code-driven golden paths.
• Familiarity with Azure-native cost-governance levers (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, tagging enforcement, Microsoft Cost Management) and FinOps practice in regulated settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the discovery effort across all nine assessment domains, including stakeholder interviews with technical and business leaders and hands-on review of the client’s Azure tenant, network topology, identity configuration, IaC repositories, deployment paths, cost reporting, and security posture.
• Own the architectural point of view. Assess the current state against Azure Landing Zone guidance and the Well-Architected Framework, identify foundational moves, and decide where to push back versus affirm the client’s direction.
• Author the prioritized recommendations and the phased roadmap, tagging recommendations against client success criteria (security, cost, resiliency, auditability, deployment ease, reduction of single-person dependencies), sequencing work with explicit dependency mapping, and making the sequencing logic legible to non-technical readers.
• Direct the Senior Cloud and Platform Engineer on the engagement, framing the analysis, dividing work, reviewing output, and ensuring technical depth.
• Run the cadence of the engagement with the client: kickoff facilitation, weekly written status, mid-Phase-2 draft-review working session, and final presentation to leadership.
• Write the executive narrative, ensuring the leadership-ready summary is a deliverable and reads well to an audience outside technical engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive Hourly Pay
• Impactful Work: Help drive application best practices in a respected organization
• Highly collaborative, low-ego environment focused on problem solving
• Meaningful and impactful client-facing work
• “Small company feel” backed by a stable, award-winning organization
• Company Events

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed