Azure Cloud Architect – Enterprise Landing Zone Lead

Nexiva Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexiva INC. is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead Azure-based cloud build-out, including landing zones, policy, and security baselines.

You will design secure environments, manage Terraform modules, and guide migrations from on-prem to Azure while coordinating with agency partners and executive stakeholders. The role requires hands-on Terraform, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, strong documentation, and mentoring responsibilities for the Azure Cloud Engineer.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering with 5+ years in Azure.
• Hands-on Terraform production experience with modules and remote state.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID and conditional access.
• Migrations of on-prem workloads to Azure; AWS knowledge is a plus.
• Experience mentoring engineers and performing code reviews.
• Clear architecture documentation and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud build-out focused on Azure with AWS GovCloud integration.
• Design secure environments and TB/API-ready Terraform modules.
• Define landing zones, RBAC, policy, and security baselines.
• Oversee hybrid connectivity and identity integration with Entra ID.
• Present options, costs, and tradeoffs to stakeholders at all levels.
• Mentor the Azure Cloud Engineer and ensure ownership and runbooks.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and runbooks; track work in Azure DevOps.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

Documentation

Mentoring

Security Baselines

Cost Management

AWS Knowledge

Education

Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

AWS Certification (nice to have)

Terraform Certification (nice to have)

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Nerdio Manager

Azure Policy

Job description

Nexiva INC. is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead Azure-based cloud build-out, including landing zones, policy, and security baselines.

You will design secure environments, manage Terraform modules, and guide migrations from on-prem to Azure while coordinating with agency partners and executive stakeholders. The role requires hands-on Terraform, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, strong documentation, and mentoring responsibilities for the Azure Cloud Engineer.