Azure Cloud Architect

Company Overview

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward‑thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking an Azure Cloud Architect to join our team in Mahwah, New Jersey (US‑NJ), United States.

Who We Are:

• At NTT DATA America, we are committed to hiring innovative and passionate individuals eager to contribute and grow with us. Launch by NTT DATA represents our strategic initiative to integrate the expertise and technology of leading digital firms, leveraging NTT DATA’s global reach and core strengths.

How You’ll Help Us:

• A Staff Platform Engineer is first and foremost a software developer who specializes in the domain of the processes and resources necessary to enable the development, build, test, deploy, and release of changes to enterprise applications delivered to market while ensuring this occurs as frequently as needed, with the least amount of error possible, and the maximum uptime. Our product, a dynamic virtual platform and its resources include an automated software factory, its logistics and utilities, a digital showroom, and consumer feedback loops.
  
  Our customers encompass the entire IT organization including ourselves.

How We Will Help You:

• By joining this highly selective elite group of industry thought leaders and experts at the leading edge, redefining the boundaries of what was conventionally thought possible, you will gain the opportunity to break through plateaus and accelerate your technical and leadership acumen to new heights. Expectations for excellence and pace set by your peers are high, but rest assured any lead or peer will jump in the mud alongside you to help you succeed, grow, and catch you when you falter.

Once You Are Here, You Will:

• Quickly be steeped in a suite of custom accelerators which include:
• Continuously tested & delivered Infrastructure, Pipeline, and Policy as Code
• Extensible automation & dependency management code frameworks
• Development of event driven functions, APIs, backend services, Command Language Interfaces, and Self‑Service Developer Portals.
• We eat our own dog food; all your work will be covered with unit, security, governance, and functional testing utilizing appropriate frameworks.
• Armed with these accelerators you will be among the first on the ground to customize and deploy the delivery platform that will enable the application developers that follow us to rapidly create, demonstrate, and deliver value sprint over sprint for much of the Global Fortune 500.
• The Azure Cloud Architect designs and implements secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD platform capabilities to support software delivery at enterprise scale. They develop reusable Infrastructure‑as‑Code, establish pipeline orchestration patterns, and integrate governance, security, and observability across Azure environments. They partner with engineering teams to enable reliable deployments, optimize performance and cost, and ensure high availability of platform services.

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure/architecture with 5+ on Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience architecting CI/CD platforms (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins) and pipeline orchestration at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands‑on with Terraform (preferred) or Bicep, Git Ops (Flux/Argo), Azure networking (VNETs, Private Link, App Gateway/WAF), and AKS.
• Strong security background:
  Entra , RBAC, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, secrets rotation.
• Observability expertise:
  Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, Prometheus/Grafana.
• Container platform experience: AKS (node pools, autoscaling, Ingress/Nginx/AGIC, CSI, CNI), container registry (ACR), Helm/Kustomize.
• Solid understanding of software delivery lifecycle and platform engineering patterns (self‑service golden paths, reusable templates, internal developer platforms).

• 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure de with 3+ on Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience architecting CI/CD platforms (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions,
• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure…