Azure Cloud Architect

This range is provided by Afx Infra. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range CA$75.00/hr - CA$100.00/hr The opportunity Afx Infra is looking for an experienced Cloud Architect with deep Azure infrastructure expertise to help drive our public sector initiatives. You'll be part of the Public Sector Architecture team, responsible for delivering our flagship product to our public sector clients in highly regulated environments. Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Public Sector Architecture , you'll play a critical role in designing secure, scalable, and resilient architectures that support the evolving needs of our product teams and customers. This is a hands‑on architecture role where you'll contribute to strategy, standards, compliance, and designs, while also guiding engineers through implementation. Your work will have broad impact—from shaping public sector architectures and hosting models for application workloads, to defining resource‑level standards and patterns for secure, well‑governed deployments. Who you are You're a cloud infrastructure architect with a strong foundation in engineering and operations. You've built and secured enterprise systems from the ground up and thrive at the intersection of technical leadership and practical execution . You're passionate about infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and modern cloud‑native patterns—and you know how to bring people together to get them adopted. You’re confident in navigating conflicting opinions and bringing clarity and structure to complex problems. You care about standards, governance, and doing things right, but you also know when to make pragmatic decisions to drive delivery forward. What’s in it for you A chance to transform – Help lead the transformation of our cloud infrastructure. Influence architectural decisions that scale across global workloads, and modernize how we host, secure, and govern our Azure environment for public sector clients. High‑impact work. Our customers rely on our platform to manage payroll and workforce functions for millions of employees. Your contributions will directly support the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform as we continue to grow. Breadth and depth. Get involved in everything from macro‑architectures to individual service configurations, automation patterns, and security controls. You’ll help define both the high‑level patterns and the low‑level implementations. What you will do Participate in our scrum process, which includes daily standups, sprint planning, and demos Craft documented architectural reviews and recommendations for feature teams onboarding to public sector environment Deliver well‑architected solutions based on the pillars of Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency . Design and document infrastructure architectures—both conceptual models and detailed, as‑built configurations. Provide deep technical consultation on complex infrastructure and cloud architecture topics, supporting multiple product and engineering teams. Collaborate across Security, Engineering, Operations, and Development teams to lead design sessions, drive implementation, and ensure solutions align with best practices. Partner with Product Management to ensure infrastructure requirements are aligned with platform roadmap priorities. Share knowledge across the architecture community at Dayforce to promote consistency and learning. What you bring Experience and Education Experience architecting and deploying solutions to highly regulated Canadian PBMM and/or US FedRAMP Moderate environments Protected B clearance – Existing clearance preferred or 7+ years residency on Canadian soil with ability to immediately achieve clearance Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience. 8+ years of relevant experience in cloud architecture and infrastructure engineering and operations roles, with 5+ years focused on Azure . Technical Expertise Deep hands‑on experience with: Azure IaaS, PaaS, and networking services (VMs, VMSS, VNet, App Gateway, App Service, Kubernetes , Private Link, NSGs, etc.) Globally available architectures, e.g. HA and DR patterns in Azure Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools like ARM, Terraform , Bicep, PowerShell , Python, and Azure CLI CI/CD pipeline automation in Azure DevOps, GitHub, etc. for application and infra deployment (e.g. Argo CD, helm charts, etc.) Secure and compliant architectures aligned with regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP, PBMM, etc.) Windows and Linux server platforms Identity and access management patterns (e.g., RBAC, Managed Identities, Conditional Access) Self-hosting MongoDB, Kafka, and Elastic Search Soft Skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non‑technical audiences. Proven ability to influence, collaborate, and drive consensus across teams. Leading teams through the definition of standards, and evangelizing those standards across an organization Strong problem‑solving skills and a pragmatic mindset. Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Contract Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries IT System Custom Software Development #J-18808-Ljbffr