Cloud Solutions Architect (IC)

The Individual Contractor will provide specialized technical expertise and architectural guidance for transitioning on-premises applications to Microsoft Azure. The role involves auditing existing application workloads, designing cloud architecture blueprints, formulating migration strategies, and recommending cost-effective Azure resource allocations to optimize performance.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the development team to audit existing on-premises hosted applications running on Proxmox virtual machines and gather technical deployment requirements.
• Analyze resource utilization metrics, compute demands, memory allocations, and architectural dependencies of on-premises VMs to establish baseline performance metrics.
• Design tailored Azure cloud architecture topologies and migration runbooks for existing application workloads.
• Evaluate and recommend whether individual applications should be migrated as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) virtual machines or refactored into cloud-native Azure PaaS services (such as Azure App Services, Azure SQL, or container instances).
• Formulate step-by-step migration technical blueprints and sequence plans for the internal infrastructure and development teams to execute during provisioning.
• Conduct cost-benefit analyses comparing current on-premises footprint against Azure pricing tiers and reserved instances to ensure maximum cost-efficiency.
• Provide recommendations for right-sizing Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, and database services to avoid over-provisioning while maintaining target performance levels.
• Provide technical guidance to internal development and infrastructure teams regarding optimal Azure deployment pathways, identity management mappings (Azure AD / Entra ID), and access controls.
• Recommend operational best practices, security baselines, and performance monitoring strategies (Azure Monitor / Log Analytics) to be configured by the internal team.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, or related technical fields is required.
• All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree.
• A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in cloud systems architecture, IT infrastructure analysis, or enterprise cloud solutions design is required.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, evaluating, or auditing cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure is required.
• Proven experience collaborating directly with software development teams to extract application performance requirements, analyze resource consumption, and translate workload metrics into optimized cloud specifications is required.
• Strong familiarity with cloud cost-optimization strategies, resource right-sizing, and evaluating IaaS vs. PaaS deployment models on Azure is required.
• Practical experience designing or planning workload migration strategies from on-premises hypervisors (specifically Proxmox VE or VMware) to Microsoft Azure is highly desirable.
• Official Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate) are highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical, architectural, and communication skills are required.

Skills

• Cloud Systems Architecture
• IT Infrastructure Analysis
• Enterprise Cloud Solutions Design
• Microsoft Azure
• Cloud Infrastructure Evaluation
• Cloud Infrastructure Auditing
• Application Performance Analysis
• Resource Consumption Analysis
• Cloud Specifications Optimization
• Cloud Cost-Optimization Strategies
• Resource Right-Sizing
• IaaS Deployment Models
• PaaS Deployment Models
• Workload Migration Planning
• On-Premises Hypervisors
• Proxmox
• VMware
• Azure Solutions Architect
• Azure Developer Associate

Languages

English, Arabic