Cloud Architect (Multi-Cloud)
About Bright Vision Technologies
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
About the Role
We are seeking a Cloud Architect (Multi-Cloud) to design strategies, reference architectures, and platform capabilities that span multiple cloud providers — AWS, Azure, GCP, and selectively OCI — for enterprises operating on more than one cloud by deliberate choice. The role focuses on portability, abstraction layers, federated identity, cross-cloud networking, and platform offerings that hide cloud-specific complexity from product teams. The ideal candidate has architected meaningful multi-cloud capabilities, understands the trade-offs between portability and cloud-native depth, and brings strong opinions grounded in production experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Define multi-cloud strategy, target-state architecture, and adoption guardrails across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI as relevant
- Design federated identity, SSO, and cross-cloud authorization patterns that let workloads and engineers move between providers without compromising on least-privilege, auditability, or operational simplicity
- Architect cross-cloud networking including transit hubs, private connectivity, and zero-trust patterns
- Establish reusable infrastructure-as-code patterns that abstract cloud-specific implementations where appropriate
- Define container, Kubernetes, and serverless strategies that work consistently across providers
- Design data architecture strategies for cross-cloud data movement, residency, and analytics
- Drive multi-cloud observability, security monitoring, and unified policy enforcement, designing approaches that work consistently across providers and avoid the complexity of fragmented per-cloud tooling stacks
- Establish FinOps practices that operate consistently across multiple cloud providers
- Lead disaster recovery and business continuity strategies that span clouds
- Partner with security architects on multi-cloud security models, KMS strategies, and key management
- Provide guidance to engineering teams on when to use cloud-agnostic versus cloud-native patterns
- Produce high-quality architecture artifacts — context diagrams, sequence diagrams, decision records, and reference designs — that capture key technical decisions clearly enough to be understood months or years later
- Engage with cloud providers and partners to evaluate roadmap alignment
- Stay current with multi-cloud platform and tooling developments, regularly review release notes and community discussions, and translate noteworthy advances into concrete recommendations and adoption proposals for the team
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Eight or more years of experience in cloud architecture roles
- Hands-on architecture experience across at least two major cloud providers
- Deep understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security across multiple providers
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code across clouds
- Experience designing federated identity and SSO across cloud platforms
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, container platforms, and managed cloud services
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Multiple cloud certifications across providers
- Track record of leading multi-cloud architecture initiatives
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with abstraction platforms (Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform CDK)
- Familiarity with cloud-agnostic observability platforms
- Experience driving large-scale cloud-to-cloud migrations
- Exposure to regulated industries with multi-cloud mandates
- Public talks or writing on multi-cloud architecture