OCTO Cloud Architect (813410)

Job summary

Leads the design and delivery of a secure, governed multi-cloud environment centered on Microsoft Azure, with operational support for AWS workloads. The role owns Azure landing zones and Terraform-based infrastructure, leads migrations from on-premises virtualized environments, oversees Azure Virtual Desktop architecture, and sets standards for security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and cost management. It also provides technical direction and mentoring to a cloud engineer while coordinating with agency IT, security, and leadership teams.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 5 years designing and building in Microsoft Azure.
• Demonstrated delivery of enterprise Azure landing zones using 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 with Azure DevOps or transferable GitHub Actions experience.
• 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 reviewing code.
• Strong written communication and experience producing architecture documentation and runbooks.
• Ability to meet the senior-level requirement of 11 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate agency requirements into cloud architecture designs and communicate options, costs, and tradeoffs.
• Establish Azure standards for landing zones, policy, naming, tagging, and role-based access control.
• Design hybrid connectivity and identity integration between Azure and on-premises systems.
• Lead complex cloud implementations and migrations of virtualized workloads to Azure.
• Own Azure landing zone architecture, including management groups, subscriptions, policy, access controls, and security baselines.
• Deliver production infrastructure changes through code and pull requests.
• Provide architectural oversight for Azure Virtual Desktop and its integration with Terraform and Nerdio.
• Define monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery standards and optimize cloud spending.
• Support and troubleshoot existing AWS workloads.
• Provide technical direction, code review, and mentoring to a cloud engineer.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, design decisions, and runbooks.
• Track work in Azure DevOps and manage incidents and changes in ServiceNow.

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