Cloud Architect

Job Title: CLOUD ARCHITECT

Location: Raritan New Jersey08869

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Guide the design and continuous evolution of enterprise cloud architecture across multiple cloud service providers (AWS Azure Google Cloud) and hybrid on-premises environments.
• Develop Reference Architectures: Create and maintain detailed reference architectures patterns and blueprints covering compute storage networking security identity data and analytics domains.
• Translate Business Needs: Convert business requirements into scalable resilient secure and cost-effective cloud solutions aligned with organizational goals.
• Establish Standards and Governance: Define and enforce governance models standards and best practices for cloud adoption including identity and access management (IAM) networking cost controls and compliance measures.
• Drive Cloud Migration and Modernization: Lead migration and modernization initiatives (rehosting refactoring rearchitecting repurchase) with clear roadmaps milestones and comprehensive risk management strategies.
• Security and Compliance: Define and enforce security architectures compliance controls data protection policies encryption standards key management and incident response plans.
• Optimize Cloud Spend: Implement cost governance practices tagging strategies right-sizing automation and lifecycle management to maximize cloud investment value.
• Architect Automation and CI/CD Pipelines: Design automation workflows Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (Terraform CloudFormation ARM) and container orchestration (Kubernetes Docker) to enable rapid and repeatable deployments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with security site reliability data engineering and application teams to ensure reliability observability and optimal system performance.
• Cloud Service Evaluation: Assess select and manage relationships with cloud service vendors maintaining due diligence and managing associated risks.
• Technical Leadership and Mentoring: Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers developers and operations teams; communicate architecture decisions and rationale to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Develop robust architectures for disaster recovery business continuity and backup; design for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Performance and Monitoring: Establish and uphold performance benchmarks monitoring logging and incident management practices driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud technologies including at least 4 years in an architecture or lead role.
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud platform (AWS Azure or Google Cloud); experience with multiple platforms is advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of networking (VPC/VNet subnets routing firewalls VPNs/ExpressRoute/Direct Connect) security IAM storage databases and compute services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation ARM) and automation/scripting (Python PowerShell Bash).
• Understanding of containers and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) as well as serverless architectures.
• Experience with cloud-based data architecture data pipelines and analytics solutions.
• Ability to translate business requirements into architectural designs and deliverables.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to influence and guide teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect CCSP/CISSP or TOGAF.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF Zachman).
• Experience with hybrid cloud edge computing or data governance initiatives.
• Knowledge of security frameworks and compliance standards (ISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR HIPAA as applicable) and risk assessment methodologies.
• Advanced degree or specialized training in cloud security data architecture or AI/ML infrastructure.

Skills & Competencies

• Technical: Cloud architecture design cost optimization security and compliance IAM networking storage and databases data governance disaster recovery performance optimization and monitoring.
• Tools & Technologies: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation ARM) CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps) containerization (Kubernetes Docker) cloud-native services and scripting languages.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Stakeholder management cross-functional team leadership negotiation project management and effective written and verbal communication.
• Problem Solving: Analytical thinking risk assessment and the ability to decompose complex problems into actionable architectural designs.

Experience Level Variants

• Senior Cloud Architect: Requires 7 years of practical experience with cloud technologies; responsible for broader scope leading architecture reviews and managing multi-cloud programs.

Staff/Principal Cloud Architect: Requires 10 years of experience; responsible for defining cloud strategy at the enterprise level and driving organization-wide transformation