About This Role
This individual contributor role focuses on designing and governing secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions across AWS and Azure. The Cloud Architect translates business and technology needs into implementable architectures, maintains reusable standards and guardrails, and assures delivery to align cloud services with enterprise risk and transformation objectives. Candidates currently working as Cloud Architects, as well as strong Cloud Engineers ready to step into an architecture role, will be considered.
Responsibilities
- Create current-state, transition, and target architectures for cloud platforms, shared services, migrations, and material service changes
- Define and maintain cloud reference architectures, landing-zone patterns, guardrails, and standards covering identity, networking, compute, data, encryption, backup, recovery, observability, tagging, and policy
- Lead solution-option assessments and architecture reviews, documenting decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, costs, and non-functional requirements
- Ensure designs meet security, regulatory, data-residency, resilience, operational-support, and customer commitments by design rather than through late remediation
- Provide technical governance for AWS and Azure implementations, including exceptions, waivers, and remediation of architectural debt
- Partner with Cloud Operations to ensure designs are monitorable, recoverable, patchable, supportable, and suitable for operational acceptance
- Work with the DevOps Architect and Automation Engineer to turn standards into reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, policies, and deployment patterns
- Apply FinOps principles to architecture choices, modeling consumption and lifecycle cost and ensuring optimization does not undermine resilience or security
- Support migration planning, dependency analysis, cutover strategy, and post-migration assurance for workloads moving into or between cloud environments
- Maintain architecture artifacts and roadmaps, communicate them clearly, and coach engineers and delivery partners in their practical use
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of experience in cloud technologies, with depth in solution or infrastructure architecture
- Strong cloud solution-architecture experience, with depth in AWS and meaningful working knowledge of Azure, or vice versa
- Track record designing production services for availability, resilience, security, scalability, operability, and cost control
- Experience with landing zones, identity (IAM, Azure AD / Entra ID), networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VNet peering), cloud-native services, and migration architecture
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform, and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment
