Lead Principal Cloud Architect

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

Lead Principal Cloud Architect (Contract)

Irvine, CA, United States (On-site)

Contract (1 year)

Published 3 days ago

TOGAF

Cloud Architect Certifications

IAC

cross - functional collaboration

GCP Cloud

cloud migration

This role exists to define and govern enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure architecture while standardizing architecture knowledge, translating business and security requirements into architecture artifacts, and validating infrastructure designs, technologies, and MSP submissions that have enterprise integration dependencies. Success is measured through executable cloud strategy, usable standards and reference architectures, effective governance and review outcomes, and scalable, secure, cost-conscious adoption patterns across infrastructure and hybrid environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target-state cloud and hybrid infrastructure architecture across public cloud, on-premises, and relevant edge/distributed scenarios, with clear standards, blueprints, and reference architectures.
• Own and evolve the cloud architecture roadmap, including migration, modernization, landing-zone, governance, and operational readiness considerations aligned to business outcomes.
• Extract and normalize infrastructure knowledge from SOPs, processes, legacy standards, and multiple 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 architecture artifacts such as ARDs.
• Review and approve infrastructure architecture and standards submissions from MSPs and other delivery partners to ensure conformance with enterprise standards, security expectations, and operational design requirements.
• Act as part of the Enterprise Architecture review function to validate new technologies and solution designs with infrastructure integration points, hidden dependencies, or architectural risks.
• Establish and enforce governance guardrails covering security, identity, network segmentation, compliance, cost management, and approved design patterns across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead adoption of infrastructure-as-code, automation, and repeatable deployment approaches, including standards for provisioning, lifecycle management, and reusable modules.
• Partner with engineering, operations, security, and product/application teams to remove design roadblocks, improve reliability and observability, and ensure supportable operating models.
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, standards, and roadmap trade-offs clearly to technical teams, delivery partners, and executive stakeholders.
  

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering, with 5+ years in senior or lead architecture roles delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
• Deep hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, with expertise in GCP, and strong knowledge in Azure, AWS, with hybrid connectivity to on-premises environments.
• Proven ability to define standards, reference architectures, governance guardrails, and architecture review practices for cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong experience in cloud migration and modernization planning, including dependency analysis, target-state design, and operational readiness.
• Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure-as-code / datacenter-as-code, automation, and orchestration frameworks.
• Experience designing and governing secure, resilient, and cost-aware cloud architectures, including identity, networking, compliance, and operational controls.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to translate architecture decisions for both technical and executive audiences.
• Experience working cross-functionally with security, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to discover requirements and reconcile competing constraints.
• Experience reviewing delivery artifacts and guiding external partners, MSPs, or systems integrators.
• Ability to create and maintain architecture documentation, standards, blueprints, and operational guidance suitable for enterprise use.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or materially supporting a cloud center of excellence or comparable enterprise architecture governance model.
• Experience with FinOps or cloud cost-governance practices.
• Experience with observability, performance, and operational resilience patterns for cloud platforms.
• Experience with platform engineering, managed services operating models, or Day-2 operational design.
• Experience with cloud-native patterns such as microservices, containers, serverless, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Core enterprise infrastructure components such as Identity Providers, DNS, DHCP, and PKI.
• Familiarity with formal cloud certifications such as AWS, Azure, or GCP architect-level certifications.
• Familiarity with ITIL, TOGAF, or comparable governance / service-management frameworks.
• Experience with distributed cloud or edge computing where relevant to the enterprise environment.
  

Skills Matrix

• Skill / Competency Category (technical / functional / leadership / soft skill / domain) Priority (Must-Have / Preferred / Optional)
• Cloud architecture strategy and target-state design functional Must-Have
• Cloud governance / guardrails / standards functional Must-Have
• Communication and collaboration soft skill Must-Have
• Cloud security / secure-by-design / compliance alignment technical Must-Have
• Hybrid / multi-cloud architecture technical Must-Have
• Infrastructure as Code / automation technical Must-Have
• Cloud migration / modernization functional Must-Have
• FinOps / cost governance functional Preferred
• Platform engineering / Day-2 operating model functional Preferred
• Cloud-native patterns (containers / serverless / event-driven) technical Preferred

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $46.23/hour - $72.23/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.