Azure Cloud Architect — Hybrid (Detroit) Migrations

Detroit Labs; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

401K

Quarterly outings

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Team bonding budgets

Lunch & Learns

Mentorship program

Volunteering opportunities

Remote-friendly activities

Job summary

Detroit Labs is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead a next-generation cloud modernization initiative using Azure, embedded on a client team in the energy space. You will design resilient architectures, migrate applications, and build a lean internal capability.

The role requires 10+ years in cloud/infra, strong Azure skills, and experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines. Hybrid work, no visa sponsorship, and local eligibility to work in the United States are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise cloud solutions in Azure (required).
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred).
• Experience leading or contributing to production-scale migrations to the cloud.
• Experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant, and disaster recovery architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, and access management.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability tooling.
• Experience designing systems for operationally critical environments.
• Strong communication and ability to collaborate across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement resilient cloud architectures for existing enterprise applications, focusing on scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead and contribute to complex application migrations from on-premises data centers into Azure.
• Architect solutions for high-traffic and failure scenarios for critical systems.
• Improve availability, disaster recovery, and overall resiliency across migrated apps.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, ARM, or Bicep.
• Ensure applications are automated and not VM-console dependent.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed modern DevOps practices and sustainable processes.
• Collaborate with developers, Cloud SREs, DevOps, QA, and stakeholders to meet needs.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud platform challenges, including vendor collaboration.
• Contribute to architecture docs, diagrams, and standards.
• Help build internal cloud capability through knowledge transfer.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Strong communication

Problem solving

Leadership & collaboration

Distributed teams experience

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Detroit Labs is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead a next-generation cloud modernization initiative using Azure, embedded on a client team in the energy space. You will design resilient architectures, migrate applications, and build a lean internal capability.

The role requires 10+ years in cloud/infra, strong Azure skills, and experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines. Hybrid work, no visa sponsorship, and local eligibility to work in the United States are essential.