Strength. Care. Growth
You’ll know A1 Bulgaria is the right place for you if you are driven by:
- Opportunities to learn and build your career.
- Meaningful work in a stable and fast-paced company.
- Diversity of people, projects, and platforms.
- A supportive, fun, and inspiring place to work.
We are looking for a Senior Azure Cloud Architect to design, secure, and optimize our enterprise Azure environment. This role is highly strategic, ensuring the cloud platform is built for scale, security, and compliance. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on architect, equally comfortable setting platform standards and guiding teams as they are in deep technical troubleshooting.
Your daily routine would include:
- Define and evolve our Azure Landing Zone strategy (Platform & Application).
- Architect and manage hub-and-spoke networking with ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, and private networking.
- Set enterprise-wide governance: Azure policies, RBAC, IAM, and compliance controls.
- Design and implement secure workload patterns, including private AKS clusters and container registries.
- Lead automation with Terraform, Bicep, ARM, and scripting in PowerShell/Python.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps/GitHub for IaC deployments.
- Configure and optimize Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting.
- Partner with application teams and vendors to ensure IaC aligns with enterprise standards.
- Provide root cause analysis (RCA) and create clear technical documentation for leadership and business stakeholders.
- Participate in internal and external audits (SOX, ISO, compliance), ensuring Azure platforms meet enterprise and regulatory standards.
We’ll know you can make it if you have:
- 7+ years of experience in IT, with at least 4 years in Azure architecture/administration.
- Proven expertise in Azure networking, IAM, governance, and IaC.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps/GitHub for automation and CI/CD.
- Knowledge of Logic Apps, Function Apps, Key Vault, and secure integration patterns.
- Demonstrated experience in audit preparation and participation (SOX, ISO, compliance frameworks).
- Strong documentation skills (runbooks, diagrams, standards).
- Excellent communication skills to bridge business and technical audiences.
Nice to Have:
- Azure certifications (AZ-305, AZ-500, AZ-104).
- Exposure to Microsoft Purview, Sentinel, Front Door, App Gateway, WAF.
- Experience with Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs.
- Knowledge of FinOps and cost optimization practices.
- Familiarity with Azure Lighthouse and hybrid/on-premises integration.
- Leadership skills: mentoring, vendor management, running workshops.
Apply now!
