Lead Azure Platform Architect

Job Description

Fractal Analytics is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite empowers imagination with intelligence. And that it will be such Fractalites that will continue to build the company for the next 100 years.

Please visit Fractal | Intelligence for Imagination for more information about Fractal.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage Azure infrastructure components including Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, and networking configurations.
• Operate across multiple Azure subscriptions within Azure Management Groups and Azure Landing Zones, collaborating with governance teams to ensure compliance and consistency.
• Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI / CD.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep.
• Apply DevSecOps principles to enforce security best practices across cloud environments.
• Support incident response and troubleshoot infrastructure and networking issues across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and maintain scalable, resilient platforms.
• Define and implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets to measure and improve platform reliability.
• Contribute to observability initiatives by implementing centralized logging and metrics ingestion across Azure subscriptions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Azure Functions.
• Support the development of dashboards and alerting frameworks using tools like Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus to improve platform visibility and reliability.
• Integrate observability with incident management tools such as ServiceNow, MS Teams, or Slack.
• Contribute to tagging frameworks and FinOps reporting automation for cost attribution and optimization.
• Participate in blameless postmortems and incident trend analysis to reduce operational toil.
• Maintain documentation, architectural diagrams, and operational playbooks for platform components.

Architectural Strategy & Governance

Cloud Platform & Data Architecture

DevOps & Automation Leadership

Security & Reliability Engineering

Observability & Incident Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education & Certifications

Preferred Certifications :

Pay :

Benefits :

Fractal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.