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# Cloud Infrastructure Architect

- **Company:** WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRADING LLC
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Identity and Access Management, Routing, Software Engineering, Policy as Code, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Cloud Optimization, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9fd02a9645d1e86e

## About the Role

* Experience: 5+ years of heavy infrastructure or software engineering, with a proven track record of designing and deploying environments above the single-project level.
 * Platform Mastery: Deep technical capability in major public clouds (AWS or Microsoft Azure), including mastery of native networking, routing, and IAM constructs.
 * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Uncompromising mastery of Terraform to build, deploy, and govern repeatable, modular environments.
 * Container Orchestration: Hands-on ability to architect and deploy Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) systems at scale.

## Description

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Architect to take absolute ownership of a massive, mission-critical cloud environment.

 * Design the Target-State Architecture: Establish the multi-account structure, identity access management (IAM), network hubs, and the central landing zone for a distributed enterprise system.
 * Govern the Cloud Cost Model (FinOps): Take control of cloud expenditure. Establish strict resource tagging, showback models, and capacity strategies to optimize and protect the IT budget.
 * Enforce Policy-as-Code: Architect zero-trust alignment and codify automated security guardrails that satisfy rigorous compliance standards (such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001) without bottlenecking developer velocity.
 * Lead Modernization: Dictate what legacy workloads migrate as-is, what gets re-architected into containerized microservices, and orchestrate the exact sequence of deployment.


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