Senior Consultant - AI & Infra

As a full Stack Infrastructure Consultant, design, build, and optimize endtoend cloud and onpremises infrastructure solutions, ensuring secure, scalable, and highperforming environments across the entire technology stack. Collaborate with the customer/partner team of Chief Information Officers (CIOs), other C-level executives, and technical and business decision-makers to align customer vision with solutions. Manages risk and Services business goals within engagements. Responsible for technical quality assurance, identification, and mitigation of technical risk across customer or partner deliverables delivery technology strategy aligned solutions Applies technical experience and industry-specific knowledge to develop solutions, based on an analysis of how the proposed approach affects the business objectives of customers and partners. Applies information-compliance and assurance policies to ensure stakeholder confidence. Defines engagements and opportunities to use Intellectual Property (IP) and address product gaps, while leveraging existing IP and community resources to ensure consistency and improve predictability. Drives new ways of thinking, across the division and subsidiary, to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities. Implement secure connectivity and encrypted network flows across hybrid and cloud environments. Implement Azure Policy, Blueprints, governance guardrails, and secure by design patterns. Design secure landing zones following CAF & WAF (Cloud Adoption Framework & Well‑Architected Framework) principles ensuring governance, resiliency, and secure adoption paths Ensure alignment with industry frameworks like Zero Trust principles 9+ years of overall IT industry experience with at least 5+ years of handson expertise in Azure Infrastructure architecture, design, and operations. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience; advanced technical certifications or higher education preferred. Terraform Associate certification strongly valued, with proven experience in InfrastructureasCode (IaC) automation. Experience across both application architecture and cloud infrastructure domains, with the ability to bridge development and operations teams effectively. Professional certifications in Delivery Management methodologies (Scrum, Agile, ITIL, Change/Project Management) considered a strong advantage. Proficiency in Python for automation, AI integration, and scripting across infra workflows Experience with Azure AI Services (AI Foundry, AI Agent services, Azure AI Search, Vision, Speech, Translation,) leveraged as infrastructure components for applications Ability to integrate OpenAI/Frontier models into cloud environments with secure and scalable infrastructure patterns (from applied AI delivery examples) Expertise in architecting and deploying business mission-critical applications on Azure. Experience with at least one CI/CD platform: GitHub, GitLab, or Jenkins (working knowledge of others is a plus). Experience deploying infrastructure using a modular, reusable approach. Experience leading large-scale cloud migration projects using tools like Azure Migrate. Experience with container migration and modernization initiatives. Experience in meeting compliance standards and performing cloud security assessments. Experience conducting technical workshops, envisioning sessions, and solution design engagements. Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.