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# Azure cloud Architect

- **Company:** UnivEdge Consulting LLC
- **Location:** Rockville, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Network Segmentation, Data Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Large Language Models, Git, Gitlab-ci, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Api Management, Key Vault, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/af738ad9-f530-4c0a-acef-81006ec749b2

## About the Role

* 12+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering or technology architecture roles.

 * 7+ years of hands-on Azure architecture experience, preferably in enterprise or regulated environments.

 * 3+ years of experience with Terraform-led infrastructure automation and reusable platform engineering patterns.

 * Experience delivering cloud platforms for healthcare, financial services, insurance, or similarly regulated industries is strongly preferred.

 * Demonstrated ability to lead multiple engineering workstreams, mentor senior engineers and communicate effectively with C-suite and architecture review boards.

Required Technical Experience

 * Azure Landing Zone, CAF, subscription design, network segmentation, private endpoints, ExpressRoute, DNS, WAF, NSG, UDR, Key Vault and managed identities.

 * Terraform, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI, Git branching, pull-request governance, deployment gates and environment promotion.

 * AI Gateway / LLM Gateway patterns using Azure APIM or equivalent, model routing, content safety, semantic cache, token quotas and prompt/response logging.

 * Observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, SLOs, alerting and operational runbooks.

 * Security control mapping



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