Experience: 12+ Years Location: Chennai Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days Job Summary We are looking for a highly experienced Azure Architect with 12+ years of IT experience, specializing in infrastructure-level migrations (L3 level). The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end cloud migration initiatives, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing Azure environments. Key Responsibilities • Design and architect Azure-based infrastructure solutions for enterprise applications • Lead on-prem to Azure cloud migration projects (L3 level ownership). • Assess existing infrastructure and define migration strategies and roadmaps • Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and security best practices • Collaborate with DevOps teams to enable CI/CD pipelines and automation • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud infrastructure performance • Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams • Ensure compliance with organizational and industry standards Requirements Required Skills • Strong experience in Microsoft Azure cloud architecture • Proven expertise in infrastructure migration (on-prem to cloud) • Hands-on experience in L3 level support and troubleshooting • Deep understanding of: • Virtual Networks, Storage, Compute, IAM • Azure Governance & Security • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform/ARM templates) • Strong knowledge of networking, security, and system design ​ Good to Have (Added Advantage) • Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) • Multi-cloud experience (especially AWS) • Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)