Cloud Solution Architect (Azure, AKS, Linux)

About the role

Beyondsoft is looking for an experienced, customer-facing Cloud Solution Architect for a hybrid role in Beijing or Shanghai, supporting DN's large-scale, business-critical cloud environment. The ideal candidate combines deep Azure infrastructure expertise with strong AKS and Linux production troubleshooting skills and has hands-on experience supporting high-volume internet or e-commerce platforms. The role requires strong ownership, sound technical judgement and the ability to work in a 24x7 support environment.

Key responsibilities

• Own technical delivery and advisory engagements across Azure infrastructure, hybrid cloud, AKS and Linux environments.
• Provide production support, incident analysis, root-cause investigation and performance troubleshooting for business-critical workloads.
• Design and review secure, scalable, resilient and well-governed Azure and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Advise on Azure Landing Zone, Management Groups, Azure Policy, governance and Cloud Adoption Framework practices.
• Design and troubleshoot enterprise networking, including Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancer and DNS.
• Support data-centre migration, server consolidation, Windows and Linux modernization, high-availability architecture, disaster recovery and operational optimization.
• Work with customer engineering and operations teams to assess Linux configuration, tuning, application behaviour and system performance.
• Develop infrastructure automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, ARM, Bicep and Terraform.
• Communicate technical risks, recommendations and remediation plans to stakeholders, and take part in on-call and 24x7 support coverage.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience and 5+ years of Azure architecture, engineering or delivery experience.
• Demonstrated consulting or architecture experience with large enterprise customers and proven production troubleshooting and case-analysis capability.
• Strong customer-facing communication, stakeholder management and technical presentation skills; professional English is required, Mandarin highly desirable.

Required skills

• Azure infrastructure, hybrid cloud, Azure Landing Zone, governance, Cloud Adoption Framework, compute, storage, backup and site recovery.
• Azure Arc, Azure Stack HCI, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, hybrid identity, federation, PKI/ADCS, DNS and DHCP.
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native platforms.
• Deep Linux administration, configuration, troubleshooting, performance analysis and tuning.
• Enterprise networking (SD-WAN, BGP, VPN, ExpressRoute, firewalls, load balancing, DNS), HA, DR and backup/recovery architecture.
• Infrastructure as Code with PowerShell, Azure CLI, ARM, Bicep and Terraform.
• Preferred: AWS or GCP, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Windows Server modernization, and experience with hyperscale environments or 24x7 production support.