Remote Senior Multi-Cloud Architect

Socket.dev; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Hybrid Cloud Architect to design strategies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, focusing on portability and cross-cloud implementations. The role emphasizes federated identity, cross-cloud networking, and reusable IaC patterns.

The candidate will lead architecture decisions, establish guardrails, and align with security and FinOps practices, ensuring consistent tooling across providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in cloud architecture roles.
• Hands-on architecture experience across at least two major cloud providers.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security across multiple providers.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code across clouds.
• Experience designing federated identity and SSO across cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, container platforms, and managed cloud services.
• Multiple cloud certifications across providers.
• Track record of leading multi-cloud architecture initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-cloud strategy, target-state architecture, and adoption guardrails across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI as relevant.
• Design federated identity, SSO, and cross-cloud authorization patterns that enable workloads to move between providers securely.
• Architect cross-cloud networking including transit hubs, private connectivity, and zero-trust patterns.
• Establish reusable infrastructure-as-code patterns that abstract cloud-specific implementations.
• Define container, Kubernetes, and serverless strategies that work across providers.
• Design data architecture strategies for cross-cloud data movement and analytics.
• Drive multi-cloud observability, security monitoring, and policy enforcement across clouds.
• Establish FinOps practices that operate consistently across providers.
• Lead disaster recovery and business continuity strategies spanning clouds.
• Partner with security architects on multi-cloud security models and KMS strategies.
• Provide guidance on cloud-agnostic vs cloud-native patterns.
• Produce architecture artifacts and decision records for long-term clarity.
• Engage with providers to evaluate roadmap alignment.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Multi-cloud strategy

Federated identity

SSO design

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-code

Policy-as-code

Cross-cloud networking

FinOps

Disaster recovery

Security

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related

Advanced cloud certification

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Crossplane

Kubernetes

OCI/Cloud IAM tools

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Hybrid Cloud Architect to design strategies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, focusing on portability and cross-cloud implementations. The role emphasizes federated identity, cross-cloud networking, and reusable IaC patterns.

The candidate will lead architecture decisions, establish guardrails, and align with security and FinOps practices, ensuring consistent tooling across providers.