You don't need another AZ-104 with a badge. You need an architect who can design an enterprise-scale Landing Zone, wire Entra ID through an M&A migration, pick between AKS and Container Apps with actual conviction, tune down a $180K monthly spend, and hand your platform team a runbook they can operate without you. That's the work we do.
$25/hr
Starting rate
5 days
Free WAR assessment
32%
Avg Azure spend reduction
Landing zone build? Migration? FinOps rescue? Brief us in 60 seconds. We'll match a senior Azure Architect in 24 hours and run a free 5-day Well-Architected Review.
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Six engagements shipped across Landing Zones, migrations, AKS, data, and AI in the last twelve months.
Management group hierarchy, subscription vending via Bicep, Entra ID with PIM, hub-and-spoke networking with Azure Firewall, Log Analytics + Sentinel + Defender for Cloud baseline, Azure Policy initiatives for regulatory scope. Stood up in 4–6 weeks for 200+ subscription estates.
Azure Migrate-driven assessment, application-by-application discovery with Movere, IAM role translation from AWS to Entra ID, VPC-to-VNet redesign, data transfer via Azure Data Box for petabyte-scale moves, CI/CD refactor from GitHub Actions / Jenkins into Azure DevOps.
Production AKS clusters with Azure CNI Overlay, managed NGINX / AGIC, OIDC-federated Entra ID workload identities, ArgoCD for GitOps, Karpenter / Cluster Autoscaler for spot-heavy fleets, Azure Monitor for container insights, and Istio / Open Service Mesh where required.
End-to-end lakehouse on Fabric — Pipelines + Dataflows Gen2 for ingestion, notebooks for medallion ETL, Warehouse + Lakehouse as the query surface, Direct Lake Power BI datasets, and OneLake shortcuts into ADLS Gen2 for hybrid analytics. Governance via Purview + sensitivity labels.
Azure OpenAI Service with Private Endpoints, Key Vault-backed model access, content filter tuning per use case, diagnostic logging into Sentinel, PTU capacity planning, and a shared AI Foundry workspace for model catalogue, evaluation, and agent deployment.
14-day cost sprints that cut 25–40% off Azure spend. RI vs Savings Plan optimization, scale-down policies, orphaned resource cleanup, PaaS SKU right-sizing, storage tier migration, egress reduction via Private Link, and a weekly savings tracker for sustained hygiene.
Production depth across compute, networking, data, AI, identity, and FinOps — not quick-start certifications.
Every project starts with a free 5-day Well-Architected Review — deliverable is a scored report across the 6 WAR pillars, whether you hire us or not.
45-minute scoping call. We map your current Azure estate (new, hybrid, multi-cloud), regulatory posture, workload types, and FinOps state. Pull 1–2 senior architects whose past work matches.
Structured review across the six Well-Architected Framework pillars — Cost, Operational Excellence, Performance, Reliability, Security, Sustainability. Deliverable is a 40-page scored report + prioritised remediation roadmap.
Fixed-scope or dedicated-architect model. Bicep / Terraform in your repo, CI/CD via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, Log Analytics + Sentinel wired from day one, weekly steering with RAID log.
Named owners for every landing zone component, runbooks for IAM change management, cost alert thresholds, DR playbooks, and formal handover to your platform team with a 4-week hypercare tail.
Three engagement models. No licence resell, no MACC referral margin, no minimum term beyond the current sprint.
5 days
Free
Full Well-Architected Review across the six pillars. Scored report + remediation roadmap. Zero commitment.
6–20 weeks
$60K – $500K
Landing zone, migration, AKS platform, data platform, AVD rollout. Fixed price, fixed timeline, milestone billing.
Monthly
$25 – $115/hr
Embed a senior Azure Architect in your platform team. Best when scope evolves or you need fractional architecture.
We're not a Microsoft partner with a catalogue to push. Azure is a practice, and our architects have lived through enterprise landing zones before CAF existed.
AZ-305, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, plus real production estates running. No paper-only architects.
We'd rather hand you a scored report than a capability deck. If the WAR doesn't earn the work, we walk.
Every engagement includes cost alerts, tagging standards, and a weekly spend dashboard — not as an upsell.
We'll tell you when AVD is overkill and Windows 365 is enough, or when Container Apps beats AKS. Fit the tool to the job.
An administrator keeps an Azure tenant running — patching, IAM tickets, keeping costs visible. A developer ships code to App Service or Functions. An Azure Architect designs the whole landing zone — subscription hierarchy, Entra ID structure, hub-and-spoke networking, policy baselines, cost governance, DR strategy — and makes the unglamorous decisions that determine whether the next five years of workloads run smoothly or blow up your CFO's budget. Different role, different rate card, different outcomes.
Yes. We follow Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) enterprise-scale reference architecture. Management group hierarchy, subscription vending, Entra ID governance, hub-and-spoke topology with Azure Firewall or third-party NVA, Azure Policy initiatives for baseline compliance, Log Analytics + Sentinel for central telemetry, Defender for Cloud for CSPM, and Bicep / Terraform for everything. We can stand up an enterprise landing zone in 4–6 weeks and hand over a runbook your platform team can operate.
Yes. We've run cross-cloud migrations using Azure Migrate as the assessment and movement tool, and we handle the messy parts — IAM role translation, VPC/VNet redesign, data gravity (snowball-equivalent transfer at scale), CI/CD refactors, and re-establishing monitoring on Log Analytics. For mixed Kubernetes estates we move clusters to AKS with cluster API portability patterns, or keep clusters on EKS/GKE and federate with Azure Arc. We price migrations as fixed-scope based on a 2-week discovery phase.
Yes. Azure Synapse and the newer Microsoft Fabric are our daily driver for data platforms — Dataflows Gen2, pipelines, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Direct Lake Power BI datasets. Azure Databricks (which our Databricks engineers deliver) integrates cleanly with the same Entra ID and Unity Catalog. Azure OpenAI Service for GenAI workloads with Private Link, key-vault-backed APIs, and content filter tuning for enterprise use. We also wire in Azure AI Foundry for agent-grade deployments.
Yes. We design AVD environments with host pools, session hosts, FSLogix profile containers on Azure Files or ANF, MSIX AppAttach for application layering, conditional access for identity hardening, and cost controls via scaling plans. Windows 365 Enterprise for simpler per-user desktop-as-a-service, integrated with Intune for device management. Our architects have shipped AVD deployments for 500–10,000 seat enterprises across regulated industries.
Dedicated Azure Architect from $25/hr (offshore senior) to $115/hr (US principal architect). A full Azure Landing Zone (enterprise-scale) build typically lands $80K–$220K over 6–10 weeks. Workload migrations (on-prem → Azure) run $60K–$500K+ depending on application count and complexity. AVD / Windows 365 rollouts are $30K–$120K. Every engagement starts with a free 5-day Well-Architected Review (WAR) of your current Azure estate — you get a scorecard and remediation roadmap whether you hire us or not.
We run 14-day FinOps sprints. Azure Cost Management + Advisor recommendations as a starting point, then we dig into Reserved Instance vs Savings Plan vs Spot economics, autoscale policies, orphaned resources (managed disks, NICs, public IPs), PaaS SKU right-sizing, storage tier migration (hot → cool → archive), and egress reduction through Private Link. Average client saves 25–40% on monthly Azure spend after the sprint. Deliverable is a week-by-week savings tracker and runbook for sustained cost hygiene.
Brief us on your tenant, workloads, and pain points. We'll match a senior architect in 24 hours and hand you a scored WAR report by Friday — free.