11years Cloud Architect - Onsite

Job summary

The Cloud Architect translates government agency requirements into Azure architecture and leads complex cloud implementations, including migration of on-premises virtualized workloads. The role owns Azure landing zones, security baselines, Terraform and CI/CD practices, and hybrid connectivity; it also oversees Azure Virtual Desktop, supports existing AWS workloads, and establishes monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and cloud cost-management standards.

Qualifications

• At least eight years of infrastructure engineering experience, including at least five years designing and building in Microsoft Azure.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise Azure landing zones with management groups, Azure Policy, role-based access control, and hub-and-spoke networking.
• Production Terraform experience, including reusable modules and remote state management.
• Experience building infrastructure CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, conditional access, and identity governance.
• Experience planning or leading migrations of on-premises virtualized workloads, such as VMware, to Azure.
• Working knowledge of AWS, including EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and conducting code reviews.
• Strong written communication and experience producing architecture documentation and runbooks.
• Preferred experience in government IT, Azure Virtual Desktop or Nerdio, cloud cost management, and ServiceNow.
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53, CJIS, or FedRAMP is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate agency business requirements into cloud solution designs and communicate options, costs, and tradeoffs.
• Establish Azure architecture standards, including landing zones, Azure Policy, role-based access control, and security baselines.
• Design hybrid cloud integration with on-premises systems, networks, and identity services.
• Lead cloud assessments, designs, and migrations of virtualized workloads to Azure.
• Ensure production changes are delivered through code and pull requests rather than manual portal changes.
• Provide architectural oversight for Azure Virtual Desktop and the Terraform-Nerdio management boundary.
• Define monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery standards; optimize cloud costs and support chargeback reporting.
• Operate and troubleshoot existing AWS workloads.
• Provide technical direction, code review, and mentoring to engineers.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, design decisions, and runbooks.
• Track work in Azure DevOps and incidents and changes in ServiceNow.

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