Azure Networking/Secrity Architect

Insight Enterprises, Inc. • Everman, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Insight is seeking an Architect for its Enterprise Cloud Consulting Practice to deliver innovative solutions for enterprise customers. The role combines technical expertise and consulting skills to provide thought leadership, design scalable and secure cloud architectures, and lead complex implementations across Azure and multi-cloud environments. The architect translates business requirements into actionable cloud strategies and serves as a trusted advisor to clients.

The position focuses on designing and implementing the network and security foundation needed to relocate applications between Azure regions while maintaining enterprise connectivity. Areas include regional hubs, ExpressRoute, routing, firewalls, DNS, private endpoints, ingress and egress, network security, and troubleshooting dependencies that may block migration cutovers. This is a hybrid opportunity based in Fort Worth, Texas, with a stated salary of $170,000.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of experience in cloud consulting or services delivery, focused on architecting and implementing cloud solutions in client environments.
• Five or more years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including design, deployment, and operational management of cloud-native and hybrid workloads.
• A proven record of client-facing consulting engagements, including assessments, architecture design sessions, migration planning, and post-deployment advisory.
• Five or more years of Azure networking/security engineering with significant enterprise production experience.
• Deep knowledge of VNets, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, VNet peering, Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, BGP, NAT Gateway, and load balancing.
• Strong experience with Azure Private Link/private endpoints and Private DNS.
• Understanding of network segmentation, zero-trust principles, identity-aware access, and enterprise security controls.
• Hands-on experience delivering public cloud infrastructure solutions and designing and deploying secure, scalable, and resilient architectures in Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with large-scale application modernization, including re-platforming and refactoring legacy applications using Azure-native services such as App Services, AKS, and Azure Functions.
• Extensive expertise in Microsoft Azure, including core services, identity and access management, governance, hybrid connectivity, and cost management.
• A solid networking foundation, including hands-on design and implementation of Azure networking components such as virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, firewalls, load balancers, and private endpoints.
• Experience implementing enterprise-grade Azure Landing Zones using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework reference architectures, with embedded governance, security, and automation controls.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills, including communicating technical and business value to diverse audiences.
• Ability to convey complex technical and business messages to stakeholders, including clients, executives, and industry analysts.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and practices in service delivery and team operations.
• Ability and desire to learn quickly and stay current with emerging technologies and trends.
• Demonstrated leadership in team-based and project-based consulting engagements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with clear, professional, and collaborative interactions.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, engineering, business, or a related field is preferred.
• An MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in presales roles, including scoping, solution development, proposal support, and collaboration with sales teams to position cloud services and offerings.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy target-region network architectures using hub-and-spoke and/or Azure Virtual WAN patterns.
• Lead and deliver enterprise Azure projects, including cloud architecture, migration assessments, proof-of-concept deployments, and full-scale implementations.
• Advise clients on Azure and networking solutions, recommending best-fit approaches and aligning architecture decisions with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Implement and troubleshoot ExpressRoute, VPN, BGP, route propagation, UDRs, NAT, peering, and hybrid connectivity.
• Engineer Palo Alto VM-Series/Cloud NGFW and/or Azure Firewall patterns, including policy, high availability, routing, and inspection paths.
• Design private endpoint and Private DNS architectures for Azure PaaS and AKS workloads.
• Support Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, load balancers, WAF, and ingress and egress patterns.
• Analyze source-region dependencies, hard-coded IPs, firewall allow lists, DNS records, and third-party network dependencies; create and execute network cutover, rollback, validation, and failover runbooks.
• Partner with enterprise network, security, application, data, and platform teams during migration waves.
• Validate network resiliency across availability zones and multiple Azure regions.

Benefits

• Freedom to work from another location, including an international destination, for up to 30 consecutive calendar days per year.
• The company describes its benefits as supporting employees and their families and enabling engagement with their local community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior