Cloud CoE Technology Owner | Azure Services

Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
Own the technical strategy, lifecycle, standards, and roadmap for Microsoft Azure platform and cloud-native services.
Serve as the primary technical authority for Azure-native capabilities and act as an escalation point for complex platform decisions.
Lead strategic modernization initiatives with other Technology Owners across compute, containers, data, networking, security, automation, and operations.
Define and maintain Azure reference architectures, approved patterns, reusable blueprints, and engineering standards for secure and scalable adoption.
Drive adoption of Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, role-based access control, tagging, diagnostics, and platform guardrails.
Guide adoption of Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps, App Service, Functions, API Management, Integration Services, event-driven services, and other PaaS capabilities.
Drive modernization paths with Strategy team that balance business value, technical debt, resiliency, security, cost, and operational readiness.
Promote engineering, self-service capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and automated compliance.
Collaborate with other Technology Owners and engineering teams to prioritize platform capabilities and convert strategic objectives into deliverable roadmaps.
Mentor other team members, lead technical communities, and strengthen Azure and cloud-native skills across the organization.
Partner with Cloud Operations to improve service reliability, incident prevention, root cause analysis, disaster recovery, and operational maturity.
Collaborate with FinOps teams to promote cost transparency, workload optimization, sustainable consumption, and economically sound architecture decisions.
Evaluate emerging Azure capabilities and recommend adoption or retirement based on enterprise value and risk.
Maintain clear standards, decision records, service documentation, adoption guidance, and lifecycle plans for owned technologies.
Act as a cloud ambassador, translating complex platform capabilities into practical guidance for application, engineering, security, and business stakeholders.
Job Specifications / Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
10+ years of enterprise infrastructure, application, cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
Demonstrated leadership of enterprise-scale cloud transformation, cloud engineering, or application modernization initiatives in global organization.
Deep knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, RBAC, managed identities, networking, private connectivity and monitoring.
Hands-on experience with cloud-native services such as AKS, Container Apps, App Service, Functions, API Management, messaging, event-driven architecture, and integration services.
Experience designing and governing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, together with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines.
Strong understanding of security architecture, Zero Trust, identity, secrets and key management, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and compliance automation.
Experience defining reliability, availability, backup, disaster recovery, observability, capacity, and lifecycle standards for enterprise platforms.
Practical FinOps knowledge covering cost allocation, tagging, budgets, optimization, commitment-based discounts, and architectural cost trade-offs.
Ability to make sound technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly to engineers, architects, security teams, and senior stakeholders.
Proven leadership, influencing, facilitation, mentoring, and conflict-resolution skills without reliance on direct organizational authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise standards, architecture decisions, roadmaps, and executive-level recommendations.
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