Coretek
Coretek
Coretek is a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider and cloud technology consultancy serving organizations across government, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services. Its work spans cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps automation, workspace management, cybersecurity, and AI solutions built with Azure OpenAI and machine learning technologies. Coretek also delivers security and observability services using platforms such as Palo Alto and Dynatrace, alongside partnerships involving Imprivata and Citrix. The company’s multidisciplinary team helps clients modernize infrastructure, strengthen security, and develop practical cloud and AI capabilities.

Senior Azure Cloud Consultant (Hybrid, India)

Lead Azure consulting engagements for Coretek clients, shaping secure cloud architectures, landing zones, migrations, and DevOps automation. Guide delivery from discovery through testing and operational handoff.

Description

  • Run discovery workshops to clarify client needs, constraints, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
  • Create Azure solution designs, implementation plans, architecture diagrams, bills of materials, and technical decisions.
  • Design Azure landing zones and platform foundations based on Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise-scale principles.
  • Guide architecture across Azure IaaS and PaaS, containers, data, identity, networking, security, resilience, and business continuity.
  • Explain options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to client technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Build and configure Azure subscriptions, resource groups, networks, connectivity, compute, storage, AKS, App Services, databases, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Deliver secure hybrid connectivity with VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Private Link, DNS, NSGs, and routing controls.
  • Set up Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, privileged access, Conditional Access dependencies, and workload identity patterns.
  • Apply Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, observability, alerting, tagging, budgets, and governance controls.
  • Test functionality, security, performance, failover, and operational readiness.
  • Build, test, and maintain reusable infrastructure as code with Terraform or Bicep, supporting ARM templates when needed.
  • Develop modular, version-controlled code with environment settings, state and secrets management, policy checks, documentation, and automated tests.
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
  • Automate Azure deployments and operations with PowerShell, Azure CLI, REST APIs, and scripts.
  • Set up source control, branching, pull requests, releases, and code reviews.
  • Assess and move workloads from on-premises data centers and other cloud platforms to Azure.
  • Coordinate discovery, dependency mapping, readiness reviews, migration waves, landing zone preparation, cutover, validation, and stabilization.
  • Advise on whether to rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retain, or retire workloads.
  • Plan rollback, coexistence, data protection, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
  • Manage assigned technical workstreams, estimates, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and status reporting.
  • Work with project managers and architects to meet agreed scope, quality, schedule, and acceptance criteria.
  • Prepare client deliverables such as as-built records, architecture diagrams, configuration details, code repositories, pipeline guides, test evidence, and operational runbooks.
  • Lead knowledge transfer and transition services to client operations or managed services teams.
  • Contribute to presales discovery, solution validation, estimates, and statements of work when requested.
  • Ensure solutions satisfy security, compliance, supportability, cost management, and operational readiness expectations.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of practical experience in Azure infrastructure, cloud engineering, or cloud consulting.
  • At least 3 years designing and delivering Azure projects in professional services, consulting, systems integration, or client project settings.
  • Proven ability to design and build Azure landing zones and workloads using infrastructure as code.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
  • Practical experience migrating workloads from on-premises environments or another public cloud to Azure.
  • Experience leading client technical workshops, capturing requirements, presenting designs, and managing delivery commitments.
  • Experience delivering production Azure environments with security, governance, monitoring, resilience, and operational handoff built in.
  • Azure architecture expertise.
  • Experience with CAF-aligned landing zones.
  • Terraform and Bicep skills.
  • Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions experience.
  • Azure networking skills.
  • Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC experience.
  • Azure IaaS and PaaS knowledge.
  • AKS and container platform experience.
  • Azure Policy and governance knowledge.
  • Defender for Cloud experience.
  • Azure Monitor and Log Analytics experience.
  • Azure Backup and Site Recovery experience.
  • PowerShell and Azure CLI skills.
  • Migration assessment and execution experience.
  • Required: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
  • Required: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, including Exam AZ-305.
  • Preferred: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, including Exam AZ-400.
  • Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700).
  • Strong client-facing communication and consulting skills.
  • Ability to turn unclear requirements into practical technical designs and delivery plans.
  • Practical, results-focused approach with ownership and accountability.
  • Ability to balance multiple project priorities while maintaining quality and documentation standards.
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, estimation, and risk management skills.
  • Commitment to secure-by-design, automation-first, and repeatable engineering.
  • Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across architecture, security, application, data, and project management teams.

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