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# Cloud Architect (AWS and Azure Cloud Platforms)

- **Company:** Lumen Solutions Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), SQL Azure, Cloud Services, Zero Trust Network Access, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Functional Programming, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www2.jobdiva.com/portal/?a=yyjdnwtj1vk20likwp2a7oa2mc2scw064c948z22g23e046qehohegye8oqt3zi6&compid=0/jobs/28905671#/jobs/28905671

## About the Role

* 10+ years of IT experience with 6-10 years of AWS and 2-4 years of Azure experience.
 * Strong expertise in AWS Organizations, Multi-Account Strategy, VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, and Azure services including VMs, Azure SQL, Storage, AKS, Azure Functions, and Networking.
 * Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, and cloud networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute).
 * Strong knowledge of Cloud Security, Governance, FinOps, Disaster Recovery, Zero Trust, and enterprise cloud best practices.
 * Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders, define cloud strategy, and mentor engineering teams.

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with 10+ years of IT experience and strong expertise in AWS, Azure, Hybrid Cloud, and Enterprise Cloud Architecture. This role is responsible for designing scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud solutions, defining cloud governance and architecture standards, and leading cloud modernization initiatives across the organization., * Design and implement enterprise cloud architectures across AWS (primary) and Azure (secondary) environments.

 * Develop cloud governance, architecture frameworks, standards, best practices, and migration roadmaps.
 * Lead hybrid cloud and on-premises to cloud transformation initiatives.
 * Architect secure, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions with a focus on scalability and performance.
 * Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation/ARM) and CI/CD automation strategies.
 * Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering, networking, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams to deliver enterprise cloud solutions.


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