Senior Cloud Architect, RAAS | Automation Services

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Cloud Architect, RAAS | Automation Services based in the United States.** The Senior Cloud Architect will lead complex cloud transformation, cybersecurity, and compliance engagements, helping organizations design, modernize, and secure resilient cloud environments. This senior technical leadership role spans Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, with a focus on translating business objectives, security requirements, and regulatory obligations into scalable architecture solutions. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients across government, defense, enterprise, and other regulated industries, guiding cloud adoption, Zero Trust implementation, governance, and modernization initiatives. Working closely with engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, and operations teams, you will oversee architecture quality and ensure solutions are secure, supportable, and audit-ready. You will also mentor technical professionals, establish reusable architecture practices, and contribute to strategic consulting opportunities. This fully remote opportunity offers the chance to influence high-impact technology initiatives in complex, security-sensitive environments. ### Accountabilities - Lead client engagements from discovery through delivery, acting as the senior technical advisor and architecture authority for complex cloud transformation and cybersecurity initiatives. - Facilitate executive briefings, technical workshops, and architecture sessions to translate business priorities, risk tolerance, and compliance obligations into actionable cloud strategies. - Develop current-state and target-state architectures covering applications, infrastructure, identity, networking, security, data protection, observability, resilience, and operational requirements. - Design secure cloud landing zones and foundational environments using governance guardrails, account and subscription structures, policy enforcement, centralized logging, network segmentation, and identity-first access controls. - Architect hybrid and multi-cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and/or Google Cloud, selecting appropriate services and design patterns based on client requirements. - Integrate cybersecurity into architecture decisions through Zero Trust principles, least-privilege access, privileged access management, threat modeling, secure configuration, vulnerability management, encryption, and secrets management. - Align cloud architectures with applicable regulatory and security frameworks, including CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, and other contractual or client-specific requirements. - Design solutions for regulated workloads, ensuring appropriate data boundaries, audit evidence, logging, data residency, secure administration, and separation of duties. - Provide architecture oversight during implementation by reviewing technical designs, infrastructure-as-code, configurations, security controls, and delivery artifacts for quality and compliance. - Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, engineering, and operations teams to resolve design tradeoffs and deliver solutions that are secure, measurable, operationally sustainable, and audit-ready. - Evaluate cloud services and architecture options by balancing security, compliance, performance, availability, cost, supportability, and time to value. - Develop roadmaps and migration strategies for application modernization, data migration, identity transformation, and cloud security improvements. - Produce high-quality client deliverables, including architecture diagrams, reference architectures, technical decision records, control mappings, implementation plans, risk registers, and executive recommendations. - Lead, mentor, and develop architects and engineers while contributing to technical reviews, solution estimation, delivery quality, reusable intellectual property, and continuous improvement. - Support pre-sales and solution development by defining technical approaches, project scopes, assumptions, and level-of-effort estimates for complex client opportunities. ## Requirements - A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - At least 10 years of progressive experience in technology architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud transformation, or related consulting disciplines. - At least 7 years of client-facing consulting or architecture experience leading complex technical discussions and delivering tailored solutions for mid-market or enterprise organizations. - At least 5 years of hands-on cloud architecture experience designing and implementing production solutions in Microsoft Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud. - Demonstrated experience integrating cybersecurity controls and regulatory requirements into cloud architecture designs and implementation roadmaps. - Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, design tradeoffs, and recommendations to executives, security leaders, auditors, engineers, and business stakeholders. - Working knowledge of cloud architecture and security methods, including well-architected frameworks, threat modeling, shared responsibility models, Zero Trust, defense-in-depth, and secure-by-design principles. - Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing requirements, facilitate decisions, and maintain delivery momentum across multiple stakeholder groups. - Experience creating high-quality technical documentation, including reference architectures, diagrams, standards, architecture decision records, and implementation guidance. - Deep expertise in at least three of the following technical domains, with working knowledge of the others: - Cloud architecture: Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud; landing zones; hybrid connectivity; resilience; disaster recovery; and cloud operating models. - Identity and access management: Microsoft Entra ID and cloud-native IAM; federation; Conditional Access; privileged access; just-in-time administration; workload identities; and secrets management. - Cloud security operations: Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, or comparable AWS and Google Cloud security services; SIEM/SOAR; detection engineering; and threat hunting. - Data protection: Encryption, key management, data classification, data loss prevention (DLP), Microsoft Purview or equivalent tools, retention, and secure data lifecycle controls. - Network security: Network segmentation, private connectivity, firewalls, secure remote administration, egress controls, DNS security, web application protection, and Zero Trust network access. - DevSecOps and automation: Infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD security, configuration management, PowerShell, Python, KQL, APIs, and automated compliance validation. - Governance and compliance: Cloud control frameworks, continuous monitoring, evidence generation, risk management, policy development, and remediation planning. - Certification requirement: At least one active certification from the following list is required, or must be obtained within 90 days of hire: - Cybersecurity and architecture: CISSP, CCSP, or SABSA certification. - Microsoft: AZ-305, AZ-500, or SC-100. - AWS: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Security – Specialty. - Google Cloud: Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Security Engineer. - Additional cloud, security, networking, DevOps, or compliance certifications are preferred. Active certifications are required for consideration. - Ability to support U.S. government and defense-related client engagements. Certain projects require eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance or meet client-defined access requirements for controlled environments. Preferred qualifications: - Experience architecting solutions for U.S. government or defense-related environments, including Azure Government, Microsoft 365 GCC High, AWS GovCloud (US), or comparable regulated cloud platforms. - Experience implementing or assessing controls for CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, Department of Defense impact levels, or similar frameworks. - Experience with application and platform modernization, including containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-native integration patterns. - Familiarity with cloud financial governance, including cost allocation, optimization, forecasting, and architecture decisions informed by FinOps practices. - Experience providing technical leadership in consulting delivery, mentoring technical teams, performing quality assurance, developing reusable intellectual property, and supporting proposals or statements of work. ## Benefits - Competitive annual salary: $157,000–$262,000, with the final offer depending on relevant experience, qualifications, skills, and other job-related factors. Compensation may fall outside the stated range in certain circumstances. - Medical, dental, and vision insurance: Coverage begins on the first day of employment. - Retirement benefits: 401(k) plan with profit sharing. - Flexible time off: Nine or more holidays and a discretionary time-off structure. - Parental leave: Leave coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers. - Flexible spending benefits: Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account options. - Professional development: Tuition assistance and a CPA support program with a cash incentive upon completion. - Incentive compensation: Discretionary incentives based on firm, group, and individual performance, along with additional incentives related to originating new client business. - Wellness support: Access to a highly rated wellness program. - Remote-work flexibility: A remote work arrangement with flexible working options. - Career advancement: Opportunities to lead complex engagements, mentor technical teams, develop architecture standards, and grow within an expanding consulting practice. - Broad technical exposure: Work across cloud platforms, cybersecurity, automation, government and defense environments, and regulated industries. - Collaborative culture: Join a professional environment that values teamwork, innovation, continuous learning, and high-quality client service.