Senior Azure Architect

$60-$65 per hour Charlotte, NC Right to Hire **Charlotte, NC (2 days onsite)** **12 months Contract to hire** We are building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction. Our goal is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strict security, compliance, and cost governance. As a Senior Azure Architect, you will be a key contributor to the standards and patterns that power this platform. You will design the standardized architectures that allow our engineering teams to deploy complex, production-ready workloads securely and reliably. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience, ensuring our cloud architecture scales effectively with the business. **Key Responsibilities** + **Enterprise Architecture Design** : Develop and refine reference architectures for our compute runtime, analyzing workload requirements to determine the best fit across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Azure App Service. + **Resilience & Disaster Recovery:** Architect robust Tier 1 systems capable of Active-Active multi(1)region deployment (RTO