Remote Cloud Systems Architect — Scale & Secure Cloud

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Cloud Systems Architect to design and govern cloud-native solutions across compute, networking, data, identity, and security on a major cloud platform. The role partners with business stakeholders, security architects, and engineering teams to translate strategy into scalable architectures aligned with enterprise standards.

Ideal candidates show breadth across cloud capabilities and depth in at least one provider, with architectural judgment balancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture roles.
• Deep expertise designing cloud-native solutions on at least one major cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security primitives.
• Experience with cloud migration, modernization, and platform consolidation programs.
• Strong understanding of containerization, serverless, and managed data services.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience producing formal architecture artifacts and presenting them to senior leadership.
• Track record of leading architecture reviews and influencing engineering direction.
• Cloud architecture certification (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end cloud solutions covering compute, networking, storage, identity, data, and observability layers.
• Lead solution architecture reviews and approval processes for major cloud initiatives.
• Define cloud landing zone, account structure, and tagging strategies for new and existing workloads.
• Establish reference architectures, blueprints, and reusable patterns adopted across engineering teams.
• Architect security, identity, and compliance controls embedded into the cloud foundation.
• Design networking topologies including VPC/VNet design, transit hubs, hybrid connectivity, and private endpoints.
• Lead cloud migration, modernization, and re-platforming initiatives across application portfolios.
• Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices across the cloud estate, partnering with finance and engineering teams to make cloud spend transparent, predictable, and tied to delivered business value.
• Partner with security architects to embed identity, data protection, and compliance controls from the outset.
• Produce architecture artifacts including context diagrams, sequence diagrams, and decision records.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams during solution delivery.
• Engage with cloud providers and platform partners to evaluate roadmap fit.
• Track emerging cloud capabilities and ecosystem developments, assessing relevance to current and planned workloads, and recommend strategic adoption based on demonstrated value and operational maturity.
• Maintain alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and regulatory obligations, ensuring that cloud designs satisfy both engineering goals and the broader compliance posture of the organization.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Major cloud platforms

Networking security basics

Stakeholder management

Communication

Architecture reviews

FinOps & cost optimization

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/IS or related

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Cloud Systems Architect to design and govern cloud-native solutions across compute, networking, data, identity, and security on a major cloud platform. The role partners with business stakeholders, security architects, and engineering teams to translate strategy into scalable architectures aligned with enterprise standards.

Ideal candidates show breadth across cloud capabilities and depth in at least one provider, with architectural judgment balancing