Systems Solutions Architect

Are you an experienced technology professional passionate about designing complex infrastructure solutions and shaping the future of hybrid cloud environments?
We are looking for a Systems Solutions Architect to lead the design of secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions across Microsoft Azure and enterprise datacenter environments.
In this senior technical role, you will translate complex business and technical requirements into practical architecture solutions, working closely with customers, business leaders, cybersecurity, operations, engineering teams, and other stakeholders throughout the entire solution lifecycle—from discovery and assessment to design, migration, implementation, operational transition, and continuous optimization.
What You’ll Do
Lead the architecture and design of secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective Azure, datacenter, and hybrid-cloud infrastructure solutions.Conduct technical discovery, current-state assessments, dependency analysis, capacity reviews, and infrastructure readiness evaluations.Develop target-state architectures, migration strategies, modernization roadmaps, high- and low-level designs, technical diagrams, standards, and implementation guidance.Design and optimize Azure landing zones, governance models, network topologies, identity integrations, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.Design and modernize enterprise datacenter platforms, including compute, virtualization, storage, networking, identity, clustering, backup, and operational management.Evaluate workload placement and recommend migration or modernization strategies based on security, performance, compliance, recoverability, supportability, and total cost of ownership.Provide technical leadership throughout implementation, migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and transition to operations.Review and validate infrastructure designs, engineering plans, configurations, and technical deliverables while identifying architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and technical debt.Partner with cybersecurity, networking, operations, service management, vendors, customers, and business stakeholders to ensure secure, supportable, and operationally ready solutions.Develop cost estimates, sizing models, bills of materials, licensing assumptions, and optimization recommendations.Present architecture recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and investment requirements to customers, business leaders, and technical governance forums.Establish reusable architecture patterns, technical standards, reference designs, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives while mentoring engineers and serving as an escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.
What We’re Looking For
8+ years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, cloud engineering, datacenter operations, or a related technology discipline.4+ years of experience designing and implementing production solutions in Microsoft Azure, including enterprise-scale or multi-subscription environments.5+ years of experience with enterprise datacenter technologies, including compute, virtualization, storage, networking, identity, backup, and disaster recovery.Proven experience designing and implementing hybrid-cloud architectures integrating Azure with on-premises datacenters.Experience leading infrastructure discovery, technical assessments, dependency analysis, capacity planning, migration planning, and solution design workshops.Experience producing architecture documents, technical diagrams, implementation roadmaps, bills of materials, standards, and technical decision records.Experience supporting cloud adoption, datacenter modernization, platform migration, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives.Hands-on experience validating designs, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues, and providing technical guidance throughout implementation and operational transition.Strong experience collaborating with security, networking, applications, service management, vendors, customers, and executive stakeholders.Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
Technical Expertise
Microsoft Azure Architecture: Management Groups, Subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, governance, tagging, and Landing Zones.Azure Networking: VNets, Subnets, NSGs, Route Tables, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Virtual WAN, Private Link, Private DNS, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, and Front Door.Azure Compute & Platform Services: Virtual Machines, Availability Zones, Scale Sets, Storage Accounts, Azure Files, Managed Disks, Azure Backup, and Site Recovery.Identity & Security: Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory Domain Services, Entra Connect, authentication, Conditional Access, Privileged Access, Managed Identities, and PKI concepts.Enterprise Datacenter Technologies: VMware vSphere/ESXi or Hyper-V, Windows Server, Linux, SAN/NAS storage, clustering, high availability, and capacity management.Networking: TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, load balancing, network segmentation, and secure connectivity.Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or equivalent technologies.Monitoring & Security Operations: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Network Watcher, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, and Azure Arc.Experience applying the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework to architecture decisions.Ability to evaluate workloads and recommend migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, replace, and retain.
Certifications
Required:Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect ExpertMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Nice to Have:Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer AssociateMicrosoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator AssociateVMware Certified Professional (VCP) or equivalent virtualization certificationTerraform Associate, TOGAF, ITIL, or equivalent architecture and service management certificationsExperience with Azure Migrate, Azure Arc, Azure VMware Solution, containers, Kubernetes, or platform modernization initiatives is also highly valued.
What You Bring
Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving, sound judgment, and attention to technical risk.Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into clear, practical, and supportable architecture decisions.Excellent communication skills with technical teams, customers, business leaders, vendors, and executive stakeholders.Ability to lead technical discovery and design sessions and build consensus across cross-functional teams.Strong ability to balance security, reliability, performance, operational supportability, time, and cost.Technical leadership and mentoring skills.Ownership, professionalism, integrity, and accountability throughout the solution lifecycle.
Language RequirementsEnglish: B2+ minimum, with professional proficiency in written and spoken English.Portuguese: Professional proficiency highly desirable.