Senior Technology Architect | Cloud Platform | Azure Development & Solution Architecting

Work Location: Detroit, MI 48226 – hybrid work set-up in Detroit, MI

Contract duration: 12 months
Target Start Date: 17 Aug 2026
Vendor Rate: ***
Visa-independent candidates welcome

About the Role

The Cloud Architect leads the establishment of cloud architectural best practices and standards as repeatable, efficient cloud assets/products. This hands-on role designs cloud architectures, ensures enterprise-level architecture and security standards are followed, and enables reusable cloud products. The focus is on resilient, secure, scalable infrastructure and migrating workloads to the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Direct and design cloud architecture and cloud security architecture practices within cloud technology, collaborating with CBO, Enterprise Architecture, and Security to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
• Develop and implement cloud strategies.
• Define and document cloud infrastructure standards.
• Communicate cloud strategies, standards, products, and decisions to stakeholders.
• Define, design, and implement architecture of cloud platform products.
• Establish reference architectures for cloud development as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Design and architect secure and scalable cloud environments, establishing common patterns with necessary security policies in easy-to-implement and maintainable Landing Zones and Application Patterns.
• Guide engineering efforts to migrate applications and data to the cloud.
• Manage and optimize cloud resources.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
• Develop and implement cloud governance policies and procedures, ensuring cohesive and standardized cloud technology involvement in enterprise governance (e.g., ARB) processes.

Skills

Core Skills

• Fundamental comprehension of core concepts of CSP (Azure).
• Working knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Open Policy Agent.
• Basic OS scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation.
• Foundational knowledge of shared services (e.g., Identity, Firewalls, Certificates, Secrets).
• Introductory understanding of microservices, containerization, and serverless concepts.
• Setup proficiency with monitoring tools for resource tracking and understanding of database types.
• On-premises to cloud application migration experience.
• Data migration experience, data security, and data redundancy for cloud applications.

Intermediate

• Proficient in employing services like computing, storage, and networking.
• Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Open Policy Agent to create complex infrastructure deployments.
• Skilled in crafting VNets, subnets, firewalls, and implementing essential security measures.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing serverless solutions.
• Expertise in configuring and managing monitoring and logging solutions.
• Proficient in selecting and configuring cloud database services (e.g., Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, etc.).

Expert

• Crafting reusable and modular IaC templates for complex architectures, automated CI/CD pipelines, and championing DevOps practices.
• Advanced network design, including global networking, hybrid connectivity, load balancing, and DNS management.
• Developing and enforcing comprehensive security policies and regular security audits.
• Advanced analytics, anomaly detection, and monitoring data for proactive optimization.
• Designing complex, scalable, and high-performance database architectures.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience.
• Azure certification required.
• Must-have skills: Azure landing zone, Terraform, Cloud Architect.

Top Responsibilities

• Design and implement Azure landing zones.
• Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform.
• Lead cloud architecture and security best practices.

Interview Process: No face-to-face required.