Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Solution IT Inc. is looking for Cloud Infrastructure Architect for one of its clients in Dallas, TX (Onsite) Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Architect Responsibilities

• The Cloud SME is the go to expert for AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• This role designs, reviews, and supports cloud solutions to make sure they are secure, reliable, cost effective, and compliant.
• The SME guides teams, supports projects, resolves complex issues, and advises leadership and customers on cloud best practices.

Cloud Architecture & Design

• Design and review AWS and Azure cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, limited SaaS).
• Ensure solutions follow best practices for security, scalability, high availability, and DR.
• Support hybrid and multi cloud environments.
• Define standard architectures, templates, and guardrails.

Cloud Operations & Support

• Act as Level 3 / SME escalation for AWS and Azure issues.

• Troubleshoot complex issues related to:

• Compute (EC2, Azure VMs)

• Storage (S3, EBS, Azure Blob, Disk)

• Networking (VPC, VNets, VPN, Load Balancers)

• Identity & Access (IAM, Azure AD)

• Support 24x7 operations model (on call or advisory).

. Security & Compliance

• Enforce least privilege access, IAM best practices, and RBAC.

• Implement and review:

• Network security (NSG, Security Groups, NACLs)

• Encryption, Key Management (KMS, Key Vault)

• Logging and monitoring (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)

• Support compliance, audits, and security reviews.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Drive automation using:

• Terraform / CloudFormation / ARM / Bicep

• Standardize repeatable builds and reduce manual work.

• Integrate cloud automation with CI/CD pipelines.

Cost Management & Optimization

• Monitor cloud spend and optimize costs using:

• Budgets, alerts, tagging, and chargeback/showback models

• Identify unused or oversized resources and recommend savings.

Cloud Migration & Modernization

• Support cloud migration strategies:

• Lift and shift

• Re platform

• Refactor

• Advise on application modernization, containers, and cloud native services.

Stakeholder & Team Enablement

• Act as technical advisor for:

• Project Managers

• Delivery teams

• Customers

• Review designs, provide approvals, and mentor engineers.

• Create documentation, SOPs, and runbooks.

• AWS Services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, Route53, Lambda (basic)

• Azure Services: Azure VMs, VNets, Azure AD, Storage, Azure Monitor, Key Vault

• Strong understanding of:

• Networking

• Security

• Backup & DR

• Monitoring & logging

• Hands on experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools

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