Enterprise Cloud Architect Lead (Hybrid/On-Prem)

Capgemini; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 99,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Tundra Technical Solutions in Irvine, CA is seeking a Lead Principal Cloud Architect (Contract) to define enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure architecture and governance. You will translate business and security requirements into architecture artifacts and validate designs across environments.

The role emphasizes building standards, reference architectures, and scalable adoption patterns, with collaboration across engineering, security, and operations to ensure provisioning and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years in senior or lead architecture roles delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
• Public cloud expertise with GCP; strong Azure and AWS knowledge.
• Standards, reference architectures, governance guardrails, and review practices.
• Cloud migration and modernization planning experience.
• Infrastructure-as-code, automation, and orchestration experience.
• Designing secure, cost-aware cloud architectures with identity, networking, compliance.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with security, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to create architecture docs and blueprints.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state cloud and hybrid infrastructure architecture across public cloud, on-premises, and edge scenarios with standards and reference architectures.
• Own and evolve the cloud architecture roadmap, including migration, modernization, landing-zone, governance, and operational readiness considerations.
• Extract and normalize infrastructure knowledge from SOPs and repositories into a centralized standards and policy knowledge base.
• Lead project intake and architecture requirements definition, including discovery with business stakeholders and InfoSec, and translate requirements into ARDs.
• Review and approve architecture submissions from MSPs and delivery partners to ensure conformance with enterprise standards and security expectations.
• Act in the Enterprise Architecture review function to validate new technologies and designs with integration points and risks.
• Establish and enforce governance guardrails covering security, identity, network segmentation, compliance, cost management, and design patterns.
• Lead adoption of infrastructure-as-code, automation, and repeatable deployment approaches with standards for provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Partner with engineering, operations, security, and product teams to remove roadblocks and ensure operating models.
• Communicate architecture decisions and roadmap trade-offs clearly to technical teams, partners, and executives.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

GCP Cloud

Azure

AWS

Cloud migration

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Security & compliance

Communication

Enterprise-scale architecture

Tools

TOGAF

IAC

Job description

Tundra Technical Solutions in Irvine, CA is seeking a Lead Principal Cloud Architect (Contract) to define enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure architecture and governance. You will translate business and security requirements into architecture artifacts and validate designs across environments.

The role emphasizes building standards, reference architectures, and scalable adoption patterns, with collaboration across engineering, security, and operations to ensure provisioning and