Cloud CoE Technology Owner | Azure Services

Location: BRA-Sao Paulo-Guararema

Remote Type: On-site

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical strategy, lifecycle, standards, and roadmap for Microsoft Azure platform and cloud-native services.

• Serve as the primary technical authority for Azure-native capabilities and act as an escalation point for complex platform decisions.
• Lead strategic modernization initiatives with other Technology Owners across compute, containers, data, networking, security, automation, and operations.
• Define and maintain Azure reference architectures, approved patterns, reusable blueprints, and engineering standards for secure and scalable adoption.
• Drive adoption of Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, role-based access control, tagging, diagnostics, and platform guardrails.
• Guide adoption of Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Apps, App Service, Functions, API Management, Integration Services, event-driven services, and other PaaS capabilities.
• Drive modernization paths with Strategy team that balance business value, technical debt, resiliency, security, cost, and operational readiness.
• Promote engineering, self-service capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and automated compliance.
• Collaborate with other Technology Owners and engineering teams to prioritize platform capabilities and convert strategic objectives into deliverable roadmaps.
• Mentor other team members, lead technical communities, and strengthen Azure and cloud-native skills across the organization.
• Partner with Cloud Operations to improve service reliability, incident prevention, root cause analysis, disaster recovery, and operational maturity.
• Collaborate with FinOps teams to promote cost transparency, workload optimization, sustainable consumption, and economically sound architecture decisions.
• Evaluate emerging Azure capabilities and recommend adoption or retirement based on enterprise value and risk.
• Maintain clear standards, decision records, service documentation, adoption guidance, and lifecycle plans for owned technologies.
• Act as a cloud ambassador, translating complex platform capabilities into practical guidance for application, engineering, security, and business stakeholders.

Job Specifications / Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure, application, cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of enterprise-scale cloud transformation, cloud engineering, or application modernization initiatives in global organization.
• Deep knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, RBAC, managed identities, networking, private connectivity and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native services such as AKS, Container Apps, App Service, Functions, API Management, messaging, event-driven architecture, and integration services.
• Experience designing and governing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, together with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, Zero Trust, identity, secrets and key management, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and compliance automation.
• Experience defining reliability, availability, backup, disaster recovery, observability, capacity, and lifecycle standards for enterprise platforms.
• Practical FinOps knowledge covering cost allocation, tagging, budgets, optimization, commitment-based discounts, and architectural cost trade-offs.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly to engineers, architects, security teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Proven leadership, influencing, facilitation, mentoring, and conflict-resolution skills without reliance on direct organizational authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise standards, architecture decisions, roadmaps, and executive-level recommendations.

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