Cloud Architect - Operations Design

Job Title: Cloud Architect - Operations Design Work Arrangement: 100% Remote Type: 1 Year Contract with extension likely Description: Top Skills & Years of Experience: • Minimum 15 years of overall experience • Senior Cloud Security Professional with 15+ years of experience with AWS and Azure and Application/Network Security. • Hands-on manager with AWS, Azure, GCP security (Data Pipeline, Engineering, Networking, IoT &DevSecOps). • Information Assurance and Cloud Security with a total of 15+ years of Software and Systems Engineering experience. Core Competencies • Design and deliver dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on Azure, AWS, GCP. • Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). • Chaos engineering experience. • Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions. • Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions. • Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery. • Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure. • Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures. • Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting. • Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps • Other skills: Containerization, Linux, Database skills, security and recovery, web services and applications programming interfaces (APIs) Core Tasks • Provide strategic and support representing Design Services and the State of Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert. • Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders. • Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams. • Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap. • Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service. • Infrastructure provisioning and configuration. • Document and Knowledge transfer; document pipeline architecture, design decisions, and setup instructions for future reference and onboarding of new team members. • Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and provide training to relevant stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition and adoption of the infrastructure deployment pipeline. • Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology. • Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives. • Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc. • Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.). • Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise. • Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior. • Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency. • Tooling and Automation: Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies to support the infrastructure deployment pipeline. Implement and configure the chosen tools to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration. • Integrate pipelines with existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems and other relevant tools. • Enable self-service capabilities for infrastructure provisioning and promote collaboration among development and operations teams. • Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related). • Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments. • Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability. • Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting. • Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations. • Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery. • Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix, Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubric. 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Created: 2026-03-04