Azure Principal Architect

Job Title: Azure Principal Architect Location: Remote Duration- 5+ Months Contract Scope: Principal Architect-level Azure expertise with extensive hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating Azure environments. Deep technical knowledge across Azure's core services, particularly networking, compute, and Blob Storage. Strong experience with Azure migrations, including planning, execution, troubleshooting, and optimization. Ability to quickly familiarize themselves with client's environment and work independently alongside their infrastructure team. Broad understanding of Azure services, with the ability to provide technical guidance across multiple concurrent initiatives. Comfortable collaborating with other infrastructure teams, including networking. Anticipated Projects & Responsibilities Azure Migrations: Work alongside Dan's team to plan and execute migrations into Azure. Azure Networking, Compute & Storage: Support design, configuration, integration, troubleshooting, and optimization. Azure Arc: Assist with evaluating and testing Azure Arc, which the firm is currently exploring. Azure SQL: Support testing and evaluation of Azure SQL services. Azure Resiliency & Disaster Recovery: Evaluate additional Azure-native services that could improve the firm's overall resiliency and recovery posture. Azure Site Recovery: Build on the firm's previous assessment and help determine potential next steps. Cross-Team Support: Potentially assist the networking team with Azure-related projects and integrations. Skills Must Have Principal-level Azure architecture and hands-on engineering. Azure networking, compute, and Blob Storage. On-prem to Azure migrations and hybrid integration. Implementation, troubleshooting, and testing. Independent, customer-facing execution Skills Nice to Have Azure Arc and Azure SQL. Azure Site Recovery, backup, and disaster recovery. Automation (Ansible). Azure security, governance, and cost optimization.