Lead Automation Architect

• 8–10+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or automation architecture roles
• Strong hands-on background in Azure, with proven experience in hybrid or on-prem migration projects
• Demonstrated ability to design cloud-agnostic architectures spanning networking, security, IAM, Kubernetes, observability, and CI/CD
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise (OpenTofu / Terraform), with the ability to review and assess existing templates (e.g. Azure Bicep)
• Experience designing and delivering automation-first platforms in enterprise or regulated environments
• Proven ability to lead architecture decisions, manage technical risk, and drive cross-team alignment
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills and strong documentation mindset
• Hands-on, delivery-oriented approach with ownership mentality

Nice to have:

• Experience automating load balancers and firewalls (e.g. F5 BIG-IP, Barracuda)
• Background in security tooling evaluation and proof-of-concept execution
• Experience with observability platforms beyond core logging (APM, security modules)
• Exposure to large-scale identity and access management transformations
• Experience in using AI tools in day-to-day workflow

• Own end-to-end architecture decisions and provide technical direction across all automation and infrastructure streams
• Ensure architectural consistency across platform, Kubernetes, networking, security, and identity layers
• Coordinate technical execution across multiple engineering teams and manage architectural dependencies
• Lead proof-of-concept migrations from cloud to on-prem data centers
• Drive OpenTofu adoption and infrastructure pipeline standardization across the organization
• Lead the design and delivery of SSO and identity federation integrated with existing Active Directory environments
• Define Linux-to-Windows / Active Directory integration patterns across the infrastructure estate
• Design and oversee automated key, secret, and credential rotation strategies
• Lead observability platform architecture, including logging, APM, security modules, and agent management
• Oversee .NET modernization and containerization for Kubernetes deployments
• Lead evaluation, selection, and replacement of infrastructure and security tooling
• Report technical progress, risks, and decisions to governance and senior stakeholders