Platform Architect (Azure) in Charlotte, North Carolina

Location

Charlotte, North Carolina

Job Type

Contractor

Company

Insight Global

Required Skills & Qualifications

Expert Azure Knowledge: Deep understanding of the Azure control plane and service portfolio. You know the limits, quotas, and architectural trade-offs of AKS, App Service, Networking, and Storage.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Strong proficiency in Terraform. You understand how to architect modular, reusable, and testable infrastructure code for enterprise environments.

Advanced Data Patterns: Experience designing high-availability data solutions using Azure SQL/PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB (Multi-region write/read), and caching strategies.

Network Engineering: Strong grasp of Azure networking fundamentals, including Virtual Networks, Application Gateways, Azure Front Door/Traffic Manager, and private connectivity.

Production Operations: Experience with observability stacks (Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus) and designing for day-2 operations.

Security & Identity: Proficiency with Entra ID OIDC/OAuth flows, RBAC models, and cloud security posture management (CSPM).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Wiz or similar cloud security tools.

Background in FinOps, including cost anomaly detection and budget enforcement.

Familiarity with GitOps principles (ArgoCD/Flux) and CI/CD workflows.

Experience interacting with Azure management APIs.

About the Role

We are building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction. Our goal is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strict security, compliance, and cost governance. As a Senior Azure Architect, you will be a key contributor to the standards and patterns that power this platform. You will design the standardized architectures that allow our engineering teams to deploy complex, production-ready workloads securely and reliably. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience, ensuring our cloud architecture scales effectively with the business. Key Responsibilities • Enterprise Architecture Design: Develop and refine reference architectures for our compute runtime, analyzing workload requirements to determine the best fit across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Azure App Service. • Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Architect robust Tier 1 systems capable of Active-Active multi[1]region deployment. You will design failover patterns for data layers (PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Cosmos DB, Redis Enterprise) and traffic management. • Network & Security Architecture: Design secure networking fabrics, including Hub-and-Spoke models, Private Link/Endpoints, and DNS strategies. Implement "Security by Design" using Entra ID (Managed Identities, Federated Credentials) and rigorous policy enforcement. • Standardization & Governance: Translate complex infrastructure requirements into reusable, policy-compliant patterns. You will ensure that every deployment meets our strict standards for observability (Azure Managed Grafana), logging, and cost controls. • Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a primary resource for Azure expertise, consulting with application teams on modernization strategies, database optimization, and cloud-native best practices.