Remote Cloud Architect for AI Workloads and Governance

Delan Associates, Inc; Arizona; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Delan Associates, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Architect with AI experience to design scalable, secure cloud environments and optimize AI workloads.

You will lead governance, security, and IAM strategies across AWS, building architectures that support high-performance compute, GPUs, container orchestration, and robust data pipelines. The role emphasizes deployment lifecycle management, cost control, and collaboration with security and technical teams to enforce policy, compliance, and safe sandbox

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience creating and managing AWS IAM users, roles, policies, and permission sets.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Governance frameworks.
• Experience working within AWS enterprise environments, including services commonly tied to governance and IAM.
• Practical AI/ML experience with cloud-native AI services (AWS Bedrock) and understanding of model access, data security, and sandboxing.
• Ability to evaluate and implement access control models and cross-team collaboration.
• Strong documentation and communication skills for governance procedures and IAM configurations.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize AI-ready cloud environments with high-performance compute, GPU clusters, containers, and distributed storage.
• Integrate AI tools into existing systems, connecting models, APIs, vector databases, and pipelines.
• Oversee model deployment, lifecycle management, monitoring, versioning, and production reliability.
• Enforce governance, security, and compliance with organizational policies and legal/ethical standards.
• Lead cost management and operational efficiency initiatives, including automation and right-sizing.

Skills

AWS IAM

Cloud Governance

AWS Enterprise Environments

AI Cloud Services

Access Control Models

Cross-team Collaboration

Documentation Skills

Tools

S3

CloudTrail

CloudWatch

ECR

Bedrock

Job description

Delan Associates, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Architect with AI experience to design scalable, secure cloud environments and optimize AI workloads.

You will lead governance, security, and IAM strategies across AWS, building architectures that support high-performance compute, GPUs, container orchestration, and robust data pipelines. The role emphasizes deployment lifecycle management, cost control, and collaboration with security and technical teams to enforce policy, compliance, and safe sandbox