Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, govern, and enhance enterprise cloud platforms and foundational services, which encompass cloud networking, identity, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), utilizing version-controlled CI/CD pipelines and automation to provide secure, scalable, and standardized cloud solutions.

• Develop, maintain, and enforce enterprise cloud architecture roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks to modernize legacy infrastructure into automated, scalable cloud-native environments while ensuring consistency, compliance, cost transparency, and operational efficiency.

• Architect and oversee enterprise cloud platform services, which include landing zones, subscription/account structures, identity and access management, DNS, and hybrid connectivity.

• Collaborate with fellow architects and technology leaders to ensure alignment across enterprise architecture domains and shared platform capabilities, while working together to design and govern cloud networking architectures (such as hub-and-spoke topology, transit networks, routing strategies, VPN connectivity, and firewall integration) across various regions.

• Work alongside engineering and application teams to define and review cloud solution architectures, ensuring that they align with enterprise standards, scalability requirements, and security policies.

• Engage with third-party vendors and the Managed Services team to develop and implement technology-enabled roadmaps.

• Identify, analyze, and suggest cloud technologies and platform capabilities based on business requirements, scalability needs, and cost considerations.

• Establish and drive operational excellence practices, including monitoring, alerting, cost optimization, and platform lifecycle management to ensure reliability and performance.

• Define and implement disaster recovery and resiliency strategies, including multi-region design patterns and high availability architectures.

• Define and govern cloud financial management practices, encompassing capacity planning, cost allocation, chargeback/showback models, reserved instance strategies, and optimization of cloud consumption.

• Document all cloud architecture designs, standards, and processes to ensure maintainability and knowledge transfer across teams.

• Collaborate with Security Architecture and Engineering teams to create secure-by-design cloud patterns, including network segmentation, privileged access management, encryption, vulnerability management, and regulatory compliance controls.

• Train and mentor engineers and architects on cloud architecture standards, Infrastructure as Code practices, and platform engineering principles.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 5 years of experience in designing and implementing infrastructure or cloud solutions in areas such as Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Networking and Connectivity, Identity and Access Management, Platform Engineering, DevOps / CI-CD Automation, Cloud-Hosted Virtual Desktops, Enterprise Architecture, Network Architecture, and Server Architecture.

• Strong working knowledge of enterprise cloud platforms (Azure required; AWS preferred) and cloud architecture principles, including networking, identity, and platform services.

• Strong understanding of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), including host pools, FSLogix, image management, autoscaling, networking, identity integration, and platform architecture.

• Experience in providing architectural oversight and governance for managed service providers, which includes reviewing solution designs, operational standards, service delivery practices, and technology roadmaps.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Performance-based bonus or sales incentive

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Short-term & long-term disability insurance

• Paid time off and 10 corporate holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Company-paid life insurance

• Mental & Financial Well-Being resources