Senior Lead Cloud Architect - AVD (RapidScale) (Remote)

At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes, with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow, all backed by the scale and strength of Spectrum.

What does the Consulting Architecture Team do?
You’ll serve as a trusted advisor to customers navigating complex cloud strategies, working directly with executive and C-level stakeholders to align adoption with business outcomes. From initial advisory engagements through delivery, you’ll bridge the gap between technology capabilities and organizational goals—translating cloud possibilities into actionable roadmaps, investment cases, and transformation strategies.

As an AVD Architect, you will:

• Lead collaboration with senior and C-level stakeholders to define Azure, AVD, and EUC strategies aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective AVD and Azure architectures.
• Lead discovery and architecture sessions to understand business drivers, user requirements, application dependencies, and technical constraints.
• Define enterprise AVD architecture, standards, reference designs, and technology roadmaps across infrastructure, networking, identity, security, applications, and operations.
• Develop TCO models, capacity assessments, optimization strategies, and technology recommendations to support AVD and Azure investment decisions.
• Provide technical leadership across the architecture lifecycle, from strategy and solution design through implementation and ongoing optimization.
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Delivery, and Cloud Operations teams to shape solutions, establish technical direction, and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
• Develop executive-ready architecture recommendations, roadmaps, solution designs, and technical documentation.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor and mentor to architects and engineering teams, helping establish best practices and continuously improve RapidScale’s AVD and Azure capabilities.

Who You Are

You are a senior cloud architect who enjoys solving complex enterprise infrastructure and end-user computing challenges. You are comfortable operating at both the architecture and hands-on engineering levels and can lead customers from strategy and design through implementation and operational optimization.

You have deep experience with Azure Virtual Desktop and understand that successful AVD implementations require much more than deploying session hosts—you understand the interdependencies between identity, networking, compute, storage, profiles, applications, security, endpoint management, automation, and user experience.

Minimum Experience

• A BA/BS degree with 8 years of relevant overall experience, or an MS degree with 6 years of relevant overall experience, or a Ph.D. with 3 years of experience, or 12 years of relevant overall experience without a college degree.
• 4+ years of hands-on Azure architecture experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) / Windows Virtual Desktop experience in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale AVD environments.
• Experience migrating users and applications from one or more traditional EUC/VDI platforms to AVD, including technologies such as Citrix, VMware Horizon, RDS, or traditional desktop environments.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of:
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Azure Compute
• Azure Virtual Networks
• Azure Storage
• FSLogix
• Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Active Directory
• Experience with AVD scaling, capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost optimization such as designing AVD host pools, session host architectures, application groups, workspaces, user profiles, and image-management strategies.
• Strong understanding of identity and access architectures, including Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, and hybrid identity.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, DNS, routing, VPN, ExpressRoute, and private connectivity.
• Intermediate-level experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Experience implementing automation and repeatable deployment patterns for Azure and AVD.
• Experience creating detailed architecture diagrams, technical documentation, implementation plans, and customer-facing deliverables.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-140) certification or equivalent

Preferred Experience:

• Nerdio experience
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800/AZ-801) or relevant Windows/Hybrid Infrastructure experience.
• Azure certifications such as AZ-500, AZ-400, AI-102, DP-100, or DP-203.
• Experience with Microsoft Intune and modern endpoint management.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft security services.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop Insights and Azure Monitor.
• Experience with Azure Files and/or Azure NetApp Files for enterprise profile and application workloads.
• Experience developing and managing Windows 10/11 enterprise images and application packaging.
• Experience with PowerShell and/or other automation technologies.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for Azure infrastructure and AVD deployments.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or other Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
• Experience designing AVD for regulated environments, including PCI, HIPAA, and HITRUST requirements.
• Experience with enterprise-scale Azure Landing Zones, governance, and Azure Policy.
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity strategies for AVD.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or GCP.
• Industry experience in one or more of the following:
• Healthcare / HealthTech
• Financial Services / FinTech
• SaaS
• E-Commerce