Lead Cloud Platform Architect #3621925

Axiom-Path; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom-Path in Richmond, Virginia, is seeking a senior cloud architect to lead the architecture for core cloud platform capabilities. This role involves shaping standards, influencing enterprise strategies, and ensuring secure and scalable cloud foundations.

The ideal candidate will have significant hands-on experience with cloud IaaS and PaaS, along with a strong understanding of security, networking, and automation practices. Cloud certifications are preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a senior or lead cloud architect.
• Hands-on experience with cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and connectivity.
• Experience in designing cloud landing zones and governance models.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for cloud infrastructure capabilities.
• Define cloud platform patterns and standards.
• Partner with technical teams to align architecture with enterprise needs.
• Design scalable cloud foundations supporting operational readiness.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure-as-code

Cloud networking

Security guardrails

Communication skills

Education

Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, or GCP preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Job description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team:

This opportunity is with a technology organization focused on strengthening enterprise cloud capabilities through secure, scalable, and reusable platform architecture. The team operates in a highly collaborative environment, partnering across infrastructure, security, networking, identity, DevOps, and application engineering groups to build cloud foundations that support long-term modernization and business growth. This role is ideal for a senior cloud architecture professional who can define platform direction, establish guardrails, and create repeatable patterns that help teams adopt cloud services safely and consistently.

What's In Store For You:

This role offers the opportunity to lead architecture for core cloud platform capabilities rather than focusing only on individual application solutions. The selected candidate will help shape cloud infrastructure standards, influence enterprise platform strategy, and work across technical teams to build scalable cloud foundations that support secure delivery at scale.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead architecture for cloud infrastructure capabilities across IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity, and connectivity.
• Define cloud platform patterns, landing zones, guardrails, and reusable standards that enable secure and consistent cloud adoption.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, networking, identity, DevOps, and application teams to align platform architecture with enterprise needs.
• Design scalable cloud foundations that support governance, resiliency, observability, access control, and operational readiness.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud connectivity models, identity integration, network segmentation, and platform automation.
• Help establish architectural direction for platform engineering practices, including infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, templates, and golden paths.
• Review proposed cloud designs and guide teams toward secure, supportable, and reusable platform patterns.
• Drive alignment between cloud platform strategy and implementation teams to ensure architecture can be delivered and operated effectively.

Do you have the expertise to lead in cloud platform architecture?

• Proven experience as a senior or lead cloud architect with strong cloud infrastructure and platform engineering depth.
• Hands-on architecture experience across cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, connectivity, DNS, routing, segmentation, private endpoints, and hybrid cloud patterns.
• Experience with cloud identity, access management, federation, RBAC, privileged access, and security guardrails.
• Demonstrated experience designing or leading cloud landing zones, reusable platform patterns, governance models, and enterprise cloud standards.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation practices, such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, ARM templates, or similar tools.
• Ability to partner effectively with security, infrastructure, networking, DevOps, and engineering stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain platform decisions, tradeoffs, and architecture standards to technical and leadership audiences.
• Cloud certifications are preferred, especially architect-level certifications across Azure, AWS, or GCP.