Cloud Architecture Engineer

Job description

The Cloud Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures. The role supports cloud strategy, cloud adoption, landing zones, migration, modernization, governance, security, platform services, and integration with existing enterprise environments. The Cloud Architect ensures cloud solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture principles, business priorities, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational standards. · Develop and maintain the enterprise cloud architecture in alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture, and technology direction. · Define cloud strategy, cloud adoption approaches, and target-state cloud architecture. · Design secure and scalable cloud landing zones for enterprise workloads. · Define architecture for public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments. · Develop cloud reference architectures, architecture principles, patterns, guardrails, and technical standards. · Assess application and infrastructure workloads for cloud suitability, migration approach, and modernization opportunities. · Define cloud migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, and retain approaches where applicable. · Design cloud networking, connectivity, identity, access management, security, logging, monitoring, and operational architecture. · Define architecture for cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, serverless platforms, managed services, and platform services. · Support application modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives. · Define requirements for resilience, availability, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance in cloud environments. · Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements into cloud architecture designs. · Support cloud governance, subscription/account structures, resource organization, policy enforcement, and tagging standards. · Promote cost optimization and FinOps principles within cloud architecture decisions. · Collaborate with application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and solution architects. · Conduct architecture reviews and assess cloud solutions for compliance with enterprise standards. · Support cloud platform selection, technology evaluation, vendor assessment, and proof-of-concept activities. · Identify cloud architecture risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation actions

Requirements

• · Minimum 8-10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or related technology disciplines
• · At least 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Architecture or a comparable senior cloud design role
• · Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud environments
• · Experience with cloud migration, modernization, landing zones, governance, security, networking, and identity architecture
• · Experience supporting large-scale cloud transformation or digital transformation programs
• · Strong experience working with technology teams, cybersecurity teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders
• Core Competencies
• · Enterprise Cloud Architecture
• · Cloud strategy and adoption planning
• · Cloud landing zone architecture
• · Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture
• · Cloud-native architecture
• · Cloud networking and connectivity
• · Cloud identity and access architecture
• · Cloud security and compliance
• · Container and Kubernetes architecture
• · Resilience, backup, and disaster recovery
• · Cloud governance and policy management
• · FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• · Architecture governance and assurance
• Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods
• · ArchiMate
• · AWS Well-Architected Framework
• · Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
• · Google Cloud Architecture Framework

Skills