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# Azure Architect - Active SC Clearance Required - Remote - Outside IR35

- **Company:** Strike IT Services
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £156,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Domain Name System (DNS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Diagrams, Peering, Role-Based Access Control, Azure Active Directory, Cloud Services, Single Sign-On, Systems Integration, SC Clearance
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-1A67A0EBAE53A4B7F5/

## About the Role

* Current, active SC clearance, which must be verified before engagement.
 * Senior Azure architecture experience within enterprise, regulated or security-sensitive environments.
 * Practical experience of tenant-to-tenant migration or subscription transfers between tenants, including the identity impact of a directory change.
 * Strong Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD knowledge, covering SSO, RBAC, Conditional Access, PIM, application registrations and service principals.
 * Experience designing and assessing Azure landing zones, management groups, Azure Policy and subscription governance.
 * Strong Azure networking knowledge, including virtual networks, hub-and-spoke architectures, peering, VPN/ExpressRoute, DNS and private connectivity.
 * Experience assessing mixed Azure estates with bespoke IaaS and PaaS workloads.
 * Proven discovery and design capability, including stakeholder workshops, dependency analysis and architectural documentation.
 * Clear written communication and the ability to translate technical findings into practical recommendations.

Desirable experience

 * Microsoft certifications such as AZ-305, AZ-104 or SC-300.
 * Experience assessing Azure DevOps or other CI/CD pipelines, particularly their dependencies on tenant identity.
 * Background in public sector, policing or other security-sensitive environments.
 * Experience working within a small advisory team alongside programme management and technical design leadership.

Please note

This engagement requires strong discovery, assessment and architecture design experience. A background focused solely on hands-on build and implementation will not meet the requirement.

## Description

We are urgently seeking a Senior Azure Architect with current, active SC clearance for a discovery and assessment engagement supporting a UK software and services provider to the public sector.

The project involves separating approximately a dozen customer Azure subscriptions from an existing parent tenant into a new, independently governed tenant, supporting data sovereignty and compliance requirements. This is an operational separation rather than a sale or divestiture.

The initial phase will focus on understanding the existing estate, identifying dependencies and defining a safe migration and cutover approach. Some subscriptions operate within security-sensitive environments, making active SC clearance essential.

Key responsibilities

 * Lead discovery and assessment across the Azure subscriptions, documenting bespoke IaaS and PaaS workloads, configurations and dependencies.
 * Run discovery sessions with development and operations teams to capture application dependencies, service requirements, SLAs and operational constraints.
 * Assess the implications of a tenant change across Microsoft Entra ID, access controls, application identities and integrations.
 * Review existing networking, private connectivity, DNS and dependencies across subscriptions and external systems.
 * Assess the target tenant's architecture and governance requirements, including landing zones, management groups, Azure Policy and subscription controls.
 * Identify migration risks, service continuity considerations and prerequisites for a safe transition.
 * Produce clear assessment reports, dependency maps, network diagrams, risk and issue logs, and a proposed cutover approach.
 * Work closely with a Programme Manager and technical design authority to inform decisions and plan subsequent phases.