5–8 years hands-on experience in Azure architecture (governance, identity, networking, compute, landing zones, security). Working experience with GCP—especially IAM, container orchestration (GKE), and analytics/BigQuery. Strong ability to articulate cost optimization, migration strategy, modernization, and cloud governance. Experience writing SOWs, level-of-effort estimates, and technical proposals. Excellent communication and executive-presence during client workshops and presentations. Cloud certifications highly preferred (AZ-305, AZ-500, AZ-104, (optional)GCP Professional Cloud Architect)).