Azure Architect
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CTI Consulting
Fort Worth, TX, US
Summary
Design and architect Azure solutions while owning governance, landing zone design, and infrastructure automation. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the cloud engineering team while ensuring alignment with enterprise compliance requirements.
Job Description
About This Opportunity
CTI Staffing is partnering with a leading enterprise organization to find an Azure Cloud Architect for their infrastructure team, based remotely with periodic travel to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
This organization is scaling its Azure footprint across multiple regions and needs an architect who can own governance, landing zone design, and infrastructure automation end to end. You'll be the person setting the patterns other engineers build on.
What You'll Do
- Design and architect Azure solutions aligned to enterprise governance and compliance requirements
- Build and maintain regional landing zones with proper isolation and connectivity across multiple regions
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep for repeatable deployments
- Implement and enforce Azure Policy, RBAC, and cost optimization strategies
- Translate business requirements into concrete technical architecture alongside cross-functional teams
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the cloud engineering team
Requirements
What You Bring
Must-Have:
- 5+ years of cloud architecture experience, with a strong Azure focus
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing Azure regional landing zones across multiple regions
- Working proficiency in at least one IaC tool: Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep
- Deep familiarity with Azure Policy, RBAC, and compliance frameworks
- Comprehensive knowledge of Azure core services, subscriptions, resource groups, and management tooling
- Experience translating governance policy into working technical implementation
- Ability to mentor and provide technical direction to cloud engineering teams
- Ability to travel periodically for onsite work (up to 25% annually)
Nice-to-Have:
- Azure certification (AZ-305 or equivalent)
- Experience in large enterprise or regulated industry environments
- Experience with cost optimization strategies at scale
- Background translating business requirements into architecture independently
Technical Environment:
- Microsoft Azure (core services, governance, policy)
- Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep
- Azure Policy, RBAC, compliance frameworks
What Success Looks Like:
- Landing zones designed, deployed, and governed across required regions within the first 3 months
- IaC pipelines documented and owned, reducing manual deployment work
- Governance framework in place that the broader engineering team can operate within confidently
CTI is a prominent security consulting, planning, and design corporation. CTI’s security experts, specialists, and engineers have provided high tech security and operational/programmatic solutions for federal, state, and city governments, major corporations, and the aviation industry since 1986. CTI is a woman, minority owned corporation certified by the US Small Business Administration and the US Department of Transportation as a Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, CTI has regional offices in Houston, TX, Austin, TX and Chicago, IL.
CTI has extensive and comprehensive knowledge and experience in all areas of security, including vulnerability assessments, training, counterterrorism support, design of security systems, and emergency plan development. CTI’s experience, professionalism and dedication to customer service is evident by the many multi-year projects awarded to the firm.
CTI does not represent any security equipment or products, nor does it have any alliances with manufacturers or vendors offering products or services, which ensures our objectivity and provides our clients with the assurance that our only goal is total client satisfaction and the successful completion of all project tasks.
Founded
1986
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Public Safety
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Germantown, MD
CTI is a prominent security consulting, planning, and design corporation. CTI’s security experts, specialists, and engineers have provided high tech security and operational/programmatic solutions for federal, state, and city governments, major corporations, and the aviation industry since 1986. CTI is a woman, minority owned corporation certified by the US Small Business Administration and the US Department of Transportation as a Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, CTI has regional offices in Houston, TX, Austin, TX and Chicago, IL.
CTI has extensive and comprehensive knowledge and experience in all areas of security, including vulnerability assessments, training, counterterrorism support, design of security systems, and emergency plan development. CTI’s experience, professionalism and dedication to customer service is evident by the many multi-year projects awarded to the firm.
CTI does not represent any security equipment or products, nor does it have any alliances with manufacturers or vendors offering products or services, which ensures our objectivity and provides our clients with the assurance that our only goal is total client satisfaction and the successful completion of all project tasks.
Founded
1986
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Public Safety
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Germantown, MD
