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Senior Azure Solutions Architect

Dallas, Texas, United States

Summary

Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia is now looking to grow its global footprint by putting roots down in Eastern Europe. After two years of extensive market research and multiple executive visits to the region we have chosen Cracow as our hub for our future growth. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.

Job Description

Highly skilled Senior Azure Solutions Architect with deep expertise in designing, deploying, and optimizing containerized workloads on Microsoft Azure. This role demands hands-on mastery of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), PaaS offerings, and a strategic understanding of Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA), and cost optimization in cloud environments.

You’ll lead architecture efforts for mission-critical applications, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions that meet performance and business objectives.

Responsibilities

•     Architect and implement containerized solutions using AKS, Azure Container Apps, and other Azure-native services.

•     Lead end-to-end Kubernetes lifecycle management: deployment, configuration, scaling, monitoring, and security hardening.

•     Design and integrate Azure PaaS services (App Services, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, etc.) into cloud-native architectures.

•     Optimize container performance through resource tuning, image optimization, and efficient orchestration strategies.

•     Manage and secure Azure Container Registry (ACR), including image lifecycle policies, access controls, and geo-replication.

•     Implement container security best practices, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and runtime protection.

•     Oversee CVE management for container images, ensuring timely patching and compliance with security standards.

•     Develop and maintain DR and HA strategies across regions and availability zones using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, and Load Balancer.

•     Deliver cost-effective solutions, leveraging Azure pricing calculators, reserved instances, autoscaling, and workload right-sizing.

•     Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, guiding cloud adoption and DevOps practices.

•     Create and maintain architecture diagrams, documentation, and runbooks for operational excellence.

•     Stay current with Azure innovations and proactively recommend improvements.

Skills

•     10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years focused on Microsoft Azure.

•     Proven hands-on expertise with AKS and container orchestration tools (Helm, etc.).

•     Strong experience with Azure PaaS services and microservices architecture.

•     Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, security, and performance tuning.

•     Expertise in container optimization, registry management, and security hardening.

•     Solid experience with CVE tracking and remediation for container images.

•     Strong grasp of Azure DR and HA strategies, including geo-redundancy and failover mechanisms.

•     Experience with cost estimation and optimization in Azure environments.

•     Proficiency in IaC tools like Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.

•     Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.

•     Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

 

Strong Pluses

•     Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.

•     Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud strategies.

•     Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).

•     Background in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, etc.) with compliance requirements.

Education

  • Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or relevant field

Eligibility Requirements

  • Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process.

Job Type

  • Full-Time

Schedule

  • Monday to Friday

Work Location

  • Dallas, TX
  • Required to be in-office 4 days per week

 

Benefits

  • Health insurance 
  • Health savings account
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Disability insurance
  • Childcare assistance
  • Education reimbursement
  • Fitness membership
  • Volunteer time off

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by their immediate supervisor or management. Principals only.

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