Mission freelance Senior Azure Cloud Architect

The scope includes, but is not limited to:

·         Contribute to the evolution of the Azure cloud security architecture vision, principles, and roadmap

·         Define and maintain cloud security reference architectures and reusable security patterns

·         Ensure security requirements are embedded in Azure landing zones, platform services, and workloads

·         Define and enforce cloud security guardrails, standards, and baselines across Azure environments

·         Provide security architecture guidance and review for cloud solution designs and platform changes

·         Ensure alignment with enterprise security architecture and governance standards

·         Define and maintain Azure security policies and control frameworks aligned with industry frameworks

·         Support implementation of policy as code using Azure Policy and related governance tooling

·         Define and oversee security exception handling and risk acceptance processes

·         Design and review identity and access management architectures

·         Define privileged access management models and administrative access controls

·         Enforce least privilege and zero trust principles across Azure environments

·         Define standards for single sign on, multi factor authentication, managed identities, and role based access control

·         Define and review secure Azure network architectures including segmentation and isolation models

·         Define ingress and egress control patterns and traffic inspection strategies

·         Review designs for Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall, Private Link, DNS security, and DDoS protection

·         Define secure hybrid connectivity patterns and network security requirements

·         Define encryption standards and key management architecture options

·         Define data classification, data protection, and sensitive data handling requirements

·         Define data loss prevention controls and security requirements for data storage and processing

·         Review backup, recovery, and data sovereignty requirements from a security perspective

·         Define secure Azure landing zone architecture patterns and platform security baselines

·         Define platform hardening standards and configuration management requirements

·         Ensure security logging, monitoring, and auditability requirements are embedded in platform design

·         Define secure configuration standards for core Azure platform services

·         Define security requirements for Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation approaches

·         Review Terraform and CI/CD designs from a security and governance perspective

·         Define security testing requirements including dependency scanning, container scanning, and IaC scanning

·         Promote shift left security practices across platform and application teams

·         Conduct cloud security architecture risk assessments and provide mitigation guidance

·         Support internal and external audit and compliance activities

·         Map cloud security controls to regulatory and industry frameworks

·         Define compensating controls where required

·         Support continuous compliance and security posture improvement initiatives

·         Collaborate with cloud architecture, platform engineering, security, and operations teams to ensure consistent security implementation

·         Produce architectural documentation, security design decisions, and governance artefacts.