Remote Cloud Architect IV – Secure, Scalable Cloud

Centex Technologies; Killeen (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Centex Technologies is hiring a Cloud Engineer 4 to architect, implement, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud environments used by Centex Technologies programs and customers. This opportunity is well suited to an experienced professional who enjoys owning difficult work, creating clarity, and collaborating across technical, program, and customer teams.

Design secure, resilient landing zones, network patterns, identity boundaries, shared services, and workload architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/engineering/IS or related field.
• Seven+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering with ownership of production environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity, security, automation, resiliency, observability, and cost management.
• Ability to translate requirements into defensible architecture and implementation decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, resilient landing zones, network patterns, identity boundaries, shared services, and workload architectures.
• Implement cloud infrastructure through proofed IaC and automated configuration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery, and runbooks.
• Apply least privilege, encryption, segmentation, and secrets management across environments.
• Produce architecture decisions, diagrams, implementation standards, and customer-ready docs.
• Lead technical reviews, resolve high-impact incidents, and mentor engineers across programs.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Security engineering

Automation scripting

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/IS or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Centex Technologies is hiring a Cloud Engineer 4 to architect, implement, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud environments used by Centex Technologies programs and customers. This opportunity is well suited to an experienced professional who enjoys owning difficult work, creating clarity, and collaborating across technical, program, and customer teams.

Design secure, resilient landing zones, network patterns, identity boundaries, shared services, and workload architectures.