Training Info
This training focuses on the complexities of designing and governing enterprise-scale Azure environments. The curriculum is tailored for architects and lead engineers who must move beyond basic deployments to build self-service platforms, implement policy-driven governance, and ensure maximum resilience for mission-critical workloads. The focus is on the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) in the context of real-world production constraints.
Delivery & Duration
Two primary formats are available to align with team expertise and project complexity. Both are delivered online (live) or in-person.
- The 1-Day Fast-Track: Optimized for senior architects and decision-makers. Focus is placed on high-level strategy, Enterprise Landing Zone patterns, and architectural decision-making.
- The Multi-Day Implementation Intensive: Includes detailed whiteboarding sessions, design-review workshops, and deep-dives into “Policy-as-Code” implementation and cost-modeling for large-scale environments.
- Modular Delivery: Options exist to split sessions into 4-hour blocks to minimize impact on operational or project cycles.
Program Curriculum
Module 1: Enterprise-Scale & Landing Zones
- Designing for Enterprise-Scale: Transitioning from Hub-and-Spoke to Managed Virtual WAN.
- Advanced Management Group and Subscription hierarchy for global organizations.
- Resource Sovereignty: Designing for data residency and localized compliance in multi-region setups.
- Implementing Self-Service Platforms: Architectural patterns for developer velocity without loss of control.
- Subscription Democratization: Managing lifecycle and decommissioning at scale.
Module 2: Advanced Resilience & Chaos Engineering
- Beyond High Availability: Designing for Regional and Global failover scenarios.
- Chaos Engineering Principles: Proactively testing for failure and identifying weak links in distributed systems.
- Cross-region data replication strategies and Recovery Point/Time Objective (RPO/RTO) trade-offs.
- Load balancing strategies: Integrating Global Front Door with regional Application Gateways.
- Designing for “Graceful Degradation”: Maintaining core functionality during platform outages.
Module 3: Security-as-Code & Zero Trust
- Implementing Zero Trust Architecture at the workload and platform level.
- Policy-as-Code: Automating architectural guardrails using Azure Policy and Bicep/Terraform.
- Workload Identity: Moving away from secrets/keys to Managed Identities and OIDC.
- Integrating advanced threat protection and SIEM/SOAR at the architectural level.
- Auditing and compliance automation: Designing for continuous “Compliant-by-Default” states.
Module 4: Performance, FinOps & Sustainability
- FinOps Alignment: Designing for unit economics and shared-cost attribution.
- Advanced scaling patterns: Predictive autoscale and horizontal vs. vertical optimization.
- Architectural right-sizing: Balancing performance requirements with long-term cost sustainability.
- Monitoring and Observability: Designing “Distributed Tracing” and telemetry into the architecture.
- Sustainability in the Cloud: Optimizing for carbon footprint and energy efficiency in high-scale deployments.
Key Takeaways
Participants will be equipped to:
- Govern at Scale: Implement automated guardrails that enforce architectural integrity across thousands of resources.
- Master Resilience: Move beyond “hope-based” DR to a “Chaos-tested” resilience model.
- Eliminate Technical Debt: Shift from manual security and identity management to a code-first, identity-centric model.
- Optimize Economics: Build architectures that are financially transparent and align directly with business value.
Next Steps
Technical leads are available to adjust the depth of these modules based on current enterprise challenges and upcoming digital transformation roadmaps.
Both options go directly to tech personnel; no sales funnel, no account managers.