Top Cloud Architect Jobs

Designs and governs cloud-native architectures across compute, networking, data, identity, and security. Partners with business, security, and engineering stakeholders to guide cloud migration, modernization, platform consolidation, and architecture reviews. Produces formal architecture artifacts, presents to senior leadership, influences engineering direction, and balances scalability, security, cost, maintainability, and delivery speed. The role requires deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform and familiarity with hybrid, multi-cloud, compliance, and FinOps practices.

Designs multi-cloud strategies, reference architectures, and platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. The role focuses on cloud portability, abstraction layers, federated identity, cross-cloud networking, infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, Kubernetes, security, and managed services. Responsibilities include leading multi-cloud architecture initiatives, communicating trade-offs to stakeholders, and supporting enterprise cloud migrations. Preferred experience includes Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform CDK, cloud-agnostic observability, regulated industries, and public thought leadership.

Lead technical leadership in cloud architecture and enterprise integration, guiding modernization efforts in a federal technology program, ensuring secure and scalable solutions.

Architect and lead the delivery of scalable multi-cloud AI platforms, agentic workflows, API-driven applications, event-based systems, and Lakehouse architectures across Azure and AWS. Establish API governance, multi-cloud LLM routing, observability, infrastructure provisioning, and end-to-end ML lifecycle practices. Guide RAG, vector search, ontology-driven systems, and traceable ML deployments while mentoring technical teams and supporting public-health mission needs.

Lead Salesforce Sales Cloud implementations from discovery and requirements through architecture, configuration, development, QA, deployment, and launch. Own solution design, advise clients, support presales and demos, apply lifecycle and governance best practices, collaborate with AI and Salesforce teams, and mentor junior consultants. The role also contributes to thought leadership and stays current with Salesforce platform releases and features.

Lead Salesforce Sales Cloud implementations from discovery and requirements through architecture, configuration, development, QA, deployment, and launch. Own solution design, guide development teams, advise customers, support presales activities, and partner with Salesforce and AI teams on innovative solutions. Configure scalable Salesforce solutions using Process Builder and Visual Flows, apply release and deployment governance, mentor junior team members, contribute thought leadership, and maintain expertise in new Salesforce features.

Serves as the chief technical authority for a federal enterprise applications portfolio. Establishes modernization roadmaps, designs shared cloud services and reusable architectures, enforces DevSecOps and secure coding practices, integrates CI/CD pipelines with testing and compliance checks, oversees cloud migration and FinOps, evaluates AI-assisted tools, advises program leadership, and mentors technical teams.

Designs and leads cloud and application security solutions across DNS, HTTP servers, microservices, container infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Defines security requirements, controls, encryption, access management, risk assessments, testing standards, and compliance measures. Analyzes security data and risks, integrates network security controls, develops scalable solutions, leads technical working groups, and communicates findings and recommendations to technical stakeholders, customers, and third parties.

Design and implement secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures to support incident response operations. Lead migrations, create IaC templates and automation, enforce security controls, support CI/CD integration, conduct architecture reviews, and troubleshoot complex issues during active cyber operations.

Designs and implements edge-to-cloud architectures for manufacturing customers and OEMs. Builds Emulate3D models, analytics applications, industrial data models, and integrations across Logix controls, historians, MES, CMMS, edge platforms, and cloud systems. Develops requirements, cloud-native solutions, OPC UA integrations, time-series data pipelines, visualizations, and predictive analytics use cases. Advises customers on Rockwell platforms and translates complex OT, IT, and IIoT architectures into practical solutions.

Lead cloud migration and platform engineering efforts, designing AWS architectures and migration plans from on-prem VMware to AWS. Perform migration assessments, tooling selection, wave planning, dependency analysis, security/compliance alignment, OS and database troubleshooting, and optimize post-migration performance while collaborating with stakeholders and platform teams.

Designs and governs cloud-native architectures across compute, networking, data, identity, and security. Partners with stakeholders, security architects, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions. Leads cloud migration, modernization, platform consolidation, architecture reviews, and engineering direction. Produces architecture artifacts, presents to senior leadership, and balances delivery speed, cost, security, and maintainability across major cloud platforms.

Designs edge-to-cloud architectures and integrations across industrial control, manufacturing, enterprise, and cloud systems. The role develops data models, integrates Logix, historian, and enterprise data, applies cloud-native architectures, and supports analytics and predictive use cases. It advises customers and Microsoft solution engineers on platforms including FactoryTalk, DataMosaix, Plex, Fiix, and Azure while translating complex manufacturing architectures into practical solutions.

Design and prototype platform patterns, own domain-level architecture (cloud infra or data), enable engineering teams, run technology evaluations and POCs, expand standards/ADRs, and help shape multi-year platform and AI infrastructure strategy.

Design and own OCI tenancy architecture, landing zones, governance, and network baselines. Advise Exadata/Cloud@Customer designs and migrations, define baseline security controls (Cloud Guard, logging, IAM, tagging), create reusable onboarding patterns, and partner with CMS and program teams to ensure secure, compliant cloud provisioning.

Support an intelligence team by advising on design and architecture of a cloud-based hybrid computing environment. Assess government objectives and contractor approaches, and recommend solutions for cloud adoption, migration, governance, Cloud DevOps, and related cloud activities.

Define and drive strategic direction for private and public cloud infrastructure. Design and implement large-scale cloud, data center, network, storage, and AI solutions. Lead migrations and high-impact projects, enforce security and compliance, optimize performance, produce architecture documentation, and mentor architects and technical staff.

Design and define complex cloud architecture and system frameworks, specify technical processes and interfaces, prototype applications, identify and resolve design weaknesses, shape cross-product architecture, provide multi-layered technical expertise, and coordinate across cross-functional teams.

Leads customer-facing cloud and AI data platform architecture on Microsoft Azure. Designs secure, scalable, resilient, and performance-optimized solutions; leads architecture sessions, proofs of concept, deployments, and modernization initiatives. Advises technical and business leaders, supports partners and sales teams, manages delivery risks, drives adoption and consumption, mentors colleagues, contributes to reusable frameworks and intellectual property, and influences product roadmaps through customer insights.

Leads customer-facing cloud architecture engagements across Azure AI, applications, infrastructure, and data workloads. Advises executives, designs secure and scalable solutions, guides implementation and operational excellence, resolves technical blockers, oversees strategic account delivery, and accelerates Azure adoption. The role also includes mentoring peers, contributing technical thought leadership, supporting proposals, maintaining cloud certifications, and helping enterprise customers adopt AI and modernize applications at scale.

The Senior Oracle Cloud DBA ensures production uptime, manages cloud platforms, performs backups, tuning, and security, and supports multiple teams.

Lead enterprise cloud-native architecture and modernization across multiple engineering teams. Design microservices, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven platforms, Kubernetes capabilities, observability, security, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure automation. Establish architecture standards, reliability and scalability practices, cloud governance, and platform strategy. Conduct architecture reviews, evaluate technologies, mentor technical leaders, and guide migration from monoliths to independently deployable services.

Lead cloud solution architecture engagements for Microsoft customers and partners: translate requirements into secure, resilient, cost-optimized Microsoft cloud solutions, drive adoption and consumption, mentor teams, influence product roadmaps, manage risks and blockers, collaborate with partners and C-level stakeholders, and support partner enablement and scalable IP development.

Designs multi-cloud strategies, reference architectures, identity and networking models, abstraction layers, and platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. The architect will lead multi-cloud initiatives, balance portability with cloud-native capabilities, develop infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code solutions, support Kubernetes and managed services, guide migrations, and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.

Designs and operates security controls across AWS and Azure environments. Responsibilities include cloud security monitoring, incident response, security automation, Infrastructure as Code standards, CI/CD security integration, policy-as-code, vulnerability management, architecture reviews, risk assessment, compliance support, penetration testing coordination, documentation, and mentoring. The role collaborates with DevOps, SRE, Engineering, Compliance, and Product teams and participates in an on-call incident response rotation.