RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design end to end cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.
Develop cloud solution blueprints, reference architectures, and high level/low level designs.
Ensure solutions follow best practices for scalability, performance, reliability, and cost optimization.
Serve as the technical lead for cloud migration, modernization, and transformation projects.
Guide engineering teams in implementing cloud-native solutions such as microservices, containers, and serverless technologies.
Provide deep technical expertise across compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and DevOps.
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical designs.
Present architectural recommendations, design justification, and solution trade-offs.
Act as a trusted advisor on cloud strategy, adoption frameworks, and best practices.
Ensure solutions comply with organizational security, regulatory, and governance standards.
Implement identity and access management, encryption, networking security, and policy controls.
Support the setup of cost governance and cloud landing zone frameworks.

These are essential technical and professional capabilities directly tied to delivering the responsibilities:

Deep experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
Ability to design end-to-end cloud architectures.

Experience developing solution blueprints, reference architectures, and high-level/low-level designs.
Knowledge of scalability, performance, reliability, and cost optimization best practices.

Hands-on experience leading cloud migration, modernization, and transformation projects.
Familiarity with lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting approaches.

Expertise with microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and serverless architectures.

Compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and DevOps.
Implementing identity & access management (IAM), encryption, network security, and policy controls.

Ability to gather requirements, present technical recommendations, and justify design decisions.
Serve as a technical lead or trusted advisor.

Understanding of security, regulatory, and governance standards in cloud environments.
Experience setting up cost governance and cloud landing zone frameworks.

These are valuable but not always mandatory:

M365 Security Architect

Senior Network Engineer