Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions Architect

🎯 Experience: 12+ Years

We are seeking an experienced M&A Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions Architect to support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, integrations, and technology separation initiatives.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Lead cloud and infrastructure architecture for M&A integration, divestiture, and separation initiatives.

• Assess current-state cloud, infrastructure, hosting, identity, security, and operational environments.

• Design target-state architectures and transition strategies aligned with business and transaction objectives.

• Provide architecture guidance across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, compute, virtualization, Active Directory, Entra ID, security, and infrastructure services.

• Participate in technology due diligence and discovery activities.

• Identify infrastructure dependencies, technical risks, constraints, and migration considerations.

• Develop migration, separation, integration, Day 1 readiness, operational handover, and stabilization plans.

• Support operational readiness, including backup/recovery, security baselines, access provisioning, monitoring, decommissioning, and buyer/receiving-organization readiness.

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to M&A teams, technical leadership, and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate with application, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, service provider, and business teams.

🔹 Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, or technology consulting.

• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and operations.

• Experience supporting M&A transactions, divestitures, carve-outs, infrastructure transformations, or large-scale migrations.

• Experience with one or more public cloud platforms; Microsoft Azure preferred.

• Deep knowledge of:

Identity & Access Management

Active Directory & Microsoft Entra ID

Networking & Connectivity

Infrastructure Operations

Virtualization & Hosting Platforms

Security Architecture

Infrastructure Migration & Modernization

• Experience developing infrastructure roadmaps, migration strategies, and target-state architectures.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

📌 Typical Deliverables

Infrastructure & cloud assessments | Architecture diagrams | Dependency maps | Identity & network transition plans | Migration & decommissioning plans | Operational readiness assessments | TSA support plans | Transition trackers | Risk & decision logs | Executive-level architecture recommendations