Microsoft Azure Architect

“I am hugely excited about my future and the future of CyberOne. I have enjoyed my time here immensely and have learnt a huge amount in a short space of time, year-for-year I've learnt more here than I have at Microsoft and PwC.” - CyberOne Consultant About CyberOne CyberOne is a pure-play Microsoft security partner dedicated to helping enterprises realise the full value of the Microsoft Security portfolio—across Defender XDR, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, Intune, Copilot for Security and more. We combine deep technical expertise with outcome-driven services that accelerate secure cloud adoption, modernise threat protection and simplify compliance. Job Title: Microsoft Azure Architect Location: Hybrid; 1 day per week reporting in London office Employment Type: Full-time About the Role: Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure, you will be the technical lead for Azure architecture and enterprise cloud transformation projects. Rather than people management, this role provides technical leadership to engineering teams, ensuring Azure solutions are designed and delivered in line with Microsoft best practice. You should possess the leadership qualities, communication skills and mentoring ability to progress into a future management role. Key Responsibilities: • Design enterprise Azure Landing Zones aligned to CAF. • Produce High and Low Level Designs. • Lead technical workshops and architecture reviews. • Define Azure governance, networking, identity and security standards. • Architect migration strategies for infrastructure, applications and SQL workloads. • Provide technical leadership and guidance to delivery engineers. • Review engineering designs and ensure technical quality. • Support pre-sales, solution design and Statements of Work. • Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation and Azure best practice. • Act as the senior technical escalation for complex Azure projects. Employees are expected to demonstrate a security-first mindset and ensure that information security considerations are incorporated into their day-to-day activities, decision-making, and interactions with customers, suppliers, and colleagues. Required Skills & Expertise: Extensive Azure architecture and enterprise delivery experience. • Proven experience acting as a technical lead on customer projects. • Able to mentor and coach engineers without direct line-management responsibility. • Strong presentation and stakeholder management skills. • Excellent documentation and solution design capability. • Strong understanding of Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework. • Commercial awareness and ability to balance technical and business requirements. • Leadership potential with the ambition to progress into a future practice management role. Required Certifications • AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate • AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert • AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer Associate Preferred…