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Job Summary:
DYD Technical Consulting Solutions is seeking a Senior Azure Architect to lead the design, engineering, and governance of secure Microsoft Azure environments supporting government, defense, and mission-critical workloads. The role involves defining Azure architecture patterns, guiding secure cloud adoption, and ensuring solutions align with federal security and compliance requirements.
Responsibilities:
• Lead architecture and technical design for secure Azure environments supporting government and defense missions.
• Define and maintain Azure reference architectures, landing zones, and platform standards for regulated and sensitive workloads.
• Design cloud solutions that meet federal security, compliance, and operational requirements, including strong boundary protection, segmentation, and least-privilege access models.
• Architect secure hybrid connectivity between Azure and on-premises, restricted, or mission-partner environments.
• Support implementation of enterprise Azure services including networking, identity, compute, storage, security tooling, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Develop and review architectures for mission systems requiring high availability, resiliency, auditability, and controlled data flows.
• Guide engineering teams on Infrastructure as Code, repeatable deployment patterns, and secure cloud operations.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, network, system, and mission stakeholders to align architecture with accreditation and operational objectives.
• Support design reviews, technical risk assessments, and architecture decision documentation.
• Ensure cloud implementations align with organizational standards, federal mandates, and security control requirements.
• Mentor engineers and provide senior-level technical leadership across programs and projects.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, or enterprise solution design.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting and implementing solutions in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong experience with Azure networking and core platform services, including: Azure Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall / NSGs, Load balancing and traffic management, Azure compute and storage services, Key Vault, Azure Monitor / Log Analytics.
• Experience designing secure hybrid cloud environments with strong emphasis on segmentation, private connectivity, and controlled access.
• Experience with Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, RBAC, policy, and governance frameworks.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or comparable automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security architecture, including encryption, identity federation, privileged access controls, logging, and boundary defense.
• Ability to produce architecture diagrams, technical documentation, standards, and implementation guidance for engineering teams and program stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in environments requiring coordination across security, operations, leadership, and external partners.
• Current Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance, or higher.
Preferred:
• Prior experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, federal civilian, or other highly regulated government customers.
• Experience with Azure Government or similarly regulated sovereign cloud environments.
• Familiarity with federal security and compliance frameworks such as: NIST 800-53, RMF, Zero Trust Architecture, FedRAMP, DISA security requirements.
• Experience supporting workloads subject to accreditation, authorization, or classified handling requirements.
• Knowledge of enterprise security architecture for mission systems, including logging, auditing, continuity, and incident response integration.
• Experience with DevSecOps pipelines, policy-as-code, and automated compliance validation.
• Azure certification such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
Company:
DYD Technical Consulting advises clients about the type of documentation that suits their business needs and will also work with you to create the best finished product on schedule and on budget. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, US, , with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.