Azure landing zones
Establish a management group and subscription model, baseline policies and ownership boundaries that support secure, consistent delivery.
Independent Azure expertise
Security-led
architecture.
Hands-on Azure delivery.
From the first architecture decision to the last Terraform deployment. Practical Azure expertise for secure, scalable systems.
Anuj Varma · Cloud, enterprise & security architect
SECURITY ACROSS EVERY LAYER
Illustrative architecture
Security by design
Repeatable delivery
Operational clarity
30+ years in technology
Enterprise context. Practical judgment.
USAA & Kimberly-Clark
Experience leading Azure architecture.
Architecture → implementation
One architect. From design to handover.
How I can help
Azure expertise.
Built around your environment.
Engage an architect who can shape the design, work alongside your engineers, and help bring it into production.
Private networking & connectivity
Design hub-and-spoke networks, private endpoints and hybrid connectivity with clear routing, DNS and firewall requirements.
Identity & access architecture
Define practical access patterns across users, applications and privileged roles, with identity controls aligned to your operating model.
Security posture & governance
Assess your Azure estate and translate findings into a prioritized plan for stronger policies, visibility and workload protection.
Workload migration & modernization
Evaluate dependencies and target designs for applications, databases and virtual desktops, with explicit migration and operating requirements.
Hands-on implementation
Turn approved designs into repeatable infrastructure, validated connectivity and documentation your team can own.
Architecture in practice
Solve the constraint.
Strengthen the architecture.
Explore representative engagement scenarios and the concrete work each one involves.
REPRESENTATIVE ENGAGEMENT
A cloud foundation your teams can use.
Bring subscriptions, identity and networking into a consistent foundation with clear ownership and repeatable provisioning.
- Define management groups, subscriptions and ownership.
- Design hub-and-spoke networking and workload boundaries.
- Establish RBAC, Azure Policy and centralized logging.
- Implement the foundation in Terraform and document operations.
Typical deliverables
Architecture diagrams, subscription and network plan, Terraform code, and an operational handover.
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Anuj Varma
Independent cloud, enterprise
and security architect
M.S. Physics
University of Florida M.Eng. Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
University of Florida M.Eng. Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
Work directly with your architect.
Enterprise experience.
Personal accountability.
I bring more than 30 years of technology consulting experience, including Azure architecture leadership at USAA and Kimberly-Clark, and 8.5 years as a cloud architect at SHI.
My Azure experience includes hub-and-spoke networking, Azure Virtual Network Manager, Fortinet high availability, Private DNS Resolver, SQL Managed Instance private endpoints, and Azure Virtual Desktop migration—alongside Entra identity and Defender security controls.
Work directly with the architect doing the work—from the first discovery conversation through implementation and handover.
More about AnujA practical way to work together
Clarity first. Then delivery.
01
Understand the environment
Review your objectives, current architecture, constraints and delivery priorities. Agree on the problem to solve.
02
Design the path forward
Evaluate options, document trade-offs and define the architecture, controls and implementation sequence.
03
Build & transfer ownership
Implement alongside your team, validate the design and hand over code, documentation and operational guidance.
Can you work with our existing engineering team?
Yes. An engagement can complement your engineers with architecture leadership, design reviews, implementation support and knowledge transfer.
Do we need to start with a full migration?
No. Start with a defined need: a network design, a security review, a landing zone, or an architecture assessment. The scope follows your priorities.
How is an engagement scoped?
Begin with a conversation about your goals, current environment and timeline. From there, agree on deliverables, responsibilities and a scope before implementation begins.
From the journal
Notes from the field.
Architecture in practice.
Short write-ups on Azure architecture, cloud security and hands-on delivery.
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