As part of the IT Infrastructure & Cloud team, the IT Lead – Cloud Expert will play a critical role in driving our cloud strategy, optimizing our Azure footprint, and ensuring stable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud operations across all regions, including on-ground collaboration with country IT teams. This role supports both day-to-day operational stability and long-term modernization initiatives, ensuring our cloud and hybrid environments are aligned with business requirements, especially high-availability workloads and real-time platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Engineering
- Design and enhance the Azure landing zones used across the business.
- Implement cloud architectures that align with infrastructure standards, security policies, and operational practices used by the team.
- Modernize existing infrastructure by consolidating VMs, shifting workloads to PaaS, and improving performance.
- Lead the setup, governance, and support of Microsoft Fabric in collaboration with analytics and platform teams.




- Support early-stage adoption and enablement of Azure AI Foundry to build and deploy AI-driven solutions where relevant.

Cloud Operations, Optimization & Cost Management
- Act as the point of expertise for Azure operations within the infrastructure team.
- Manage and optimize Azure costs, including budgeting, forecasting, tagging, and alert configuration.
- Drive VM consolidation initiatives across environments to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
- Monitor health, capacity, and performance of cloud workloads to ensure business continuity and operational resilience.
- Support the team during incident management, major outages, and escalations involving cloud components.

Governance, Security & Compliance
- Work closely with Information Security to apply cloud security standards across regions.
- Work closely with application and network teams to ensure aligned delivery and smooth project execution.
- Conduct regular assessments of cloud pos

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