Suruz A.

Azure Solutions Architect | FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization

Azure costs drift when FinOps and architecture have no clear owner. I help SMB and mid-market teams reduce Azure spend through cost optimization, rightsizing, reservations, and practical cost governance. I am an Azure solutions architect with 16+ years of experience across cloud architecture, migration, security, DevOps, and Microsoft AI. SELECTED OUTCOMES - Reduced Azure infrastructure costs by up to 30% through rightsizing, Reserved Instances, and storage optimization - Delivered 200+ cloud migrations with 99.9% uptime SLAs and zero unplanned downtime across on-premises, Hyper-V, and VMware environments - Cut deployment times by 60% through CI/CD automation with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Terraform - Implemented Azure AD / Entra ID hybrid deployments for 10+ enterprise clients - Built enterprise SOC/SIEM environments with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender - Designed Azure virtual networks supporting 300+ endpoints at 99.9% uptime HOW I CAN HELP - Azure FinOps - cost assessment, rightsizing, reservations and savings plans, budgets, tagging, and cost allocation - Architecture and migration - landing zones, hub-spoke networking, Azure Migrate, AKS, App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Virtual Desktop - DevOps and IaC - Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD - Security and governance - Entra ID, Conditional Access, Azure Policy, Sentinel, Defender, Zero Trust - Microsoft AI and data - Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform HOW I WORK Every engagement starts with written scope, defined deliverables, milestones, assumptions, and a rollback plan before anything reaches your tenant. Read-only assessment first; production changes only in an agreed change window. CERTIFICATIONS Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert, Fabric Data Engineer Associate, and Azure AI Engineer Associate - all active on my Microsoft Learn transcript. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Associate, valid to 2029. A practical starting point is a cloud architecture review with cost and security recommendations - from $149, 3-day delivery. Tell me your current Azure challenge, the outcome you want, and any constraints I should design around.