Azure Cloud Architect - Lead Multi-Cloud Landing Zone

Hruckus; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 121,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HRUCKUS seeks an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to lead OCTO's cloud team in Washington, DC, building secure, well-governed Azure environments with supporting AWS workloads. The role requires hands-on Terraform and strong stakeholder communication as you guide enterprise cloud initiatives.

You will design the Azure landing zone, oversee VDI with Nerdio, and mentor engineers while ensuring cost management and governance across the multi-cloud stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering with Azure expertise.
• Enterprise Azure landing zone design and RBAC.
• Hands-on Terraform in production 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.
• Experience migrating on-prem workloads to Azure.
• Ability to communicate architecture to executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Translate agency requirements into Azure solution designs and present options.
• Lead large cloud implementations and migration waves.
• Define Azure landing zone governance, policy, and RBAC.
• Oversee Azure Virtual Desktop deployments and Nerdio integration.
• Provide architectural oversight and mentoring to engineers.
• Maintain runbooks and architectural diagrams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Mentoring engineers

Executive stakeholder communication

Documentation & runbooks

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Nerdio (Azure Virtual Desktop)

Job description

HRUCKUS seeks an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to lead OCTO's cloud team in Washington, DC, building secure, well-governed Azure environments with supporting AWS workloads. The role requires hands-on Terraform and strong stakeholder communication as you guide enterprise cloud initiatives.

You will design the Azure landing zone, oversee VDI with Nerdio, and mentor engineers while ensuring cost management and governance across the multi-cloud stack.