Cloud Architect Azure & AWS

Cloud Architect – Azure & AWS

• Location: Offshore / Remote
• Department: Information Technology
• Reports to: Senior Director, IT Infrastructure

Role Summary

• Lead the architecture, implementation, governance, and operational excellence of a dual-cloud environment across Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Develop scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud platforms while remaining hands-on with engineering and production implementations.
• Own cloud landing zones, reference architectures, networking, identity, DNS, security controls, and FinOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure covering compute, storage, databases, networking, containers, and serverless services.
• Drive cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, hybrid architectures, and workload placement decisions.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; Bicep, ARM, and CloudFormation experience is advantageous.
• Architect IAM, SSO, federation, least-privilege access, and governance across Azure Entra ID and AWS IAM.
• Manage cloud networking, DNS, domains, certificates, and hybrid connectivity.
• Partner with security teams on monitoring, SIEM, compliance, audits, and incident response.
• Establish cloud cost controls, forecasting, optimization, and FinOps practices.
• Define reliability standards, SLOs, runbooks, and incident-management processes.
• Mentor engineering teams and maintain high-quality architecture documentation.

Required

• 6+ years of cloud/platform experience, including 2+ years in architecture.
• Proven production experience with both Azure and AWS.
• Current professional-level certifications in Azure and AWS.
• Strong expertise in networking, IAM, Terraform, landing zones, governance, and enterprise cloud architecture.