Cloud Solutions Architect

Application Audit & Workload Assessment: o Work closely with the development team to audit existing on-premises hosted applications running on Proxmox virtual machines and gather technical deployment requirements. o Analyze resource utilization metrics, compute demands, memory allocations, and architectural dependencies of on-premises VMs to establish baseline performance metrics. Cloud Architecture Design & Migration Strategy: o Design tailored Azure cloud architecture topologies and migration runbooks for existing application workloads. o 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). o Formulate step-by-step migration technical blueprints and sequence plans for the internal infrastructure and development teams to execute during provisioning. Cost Optimization & Resource Sizing: o Conduct cost-benefit analyses comparing current on-premises footprint against Azure pricing tiers and reserved instances to ensure maximum cost-efficiency. o Provide recommendations for right-sizing Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, and database services to avoid over-provisioning while maintaining target performance levels. Technical Guidance & Advisory: o Provide technical guidance to internal development and infrastructure teams regarding optimal Azure deployment pathways, identity management mappings (Azure AD / Entra ID), and access controls. o Recommend operational best practices, security baselines, and performance monitoring strategies (Azure Monitor / Log Analytics) to be configured by the internal team. Qualifications University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, or related technical fields is required. A minimum of 3 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.

Desired Candidate Profile

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. English and French are the working languages fluency in English is required and knowledge of Arabic is desirable. Employment Type Contract