Senior Cloud Architect — Azure & AWS (Remote)

Applied Information Sciences; United States; Remote; USD 154,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead enterprise‑scale cloud initiatives and drive the architecture for multi‑region migrations to Azure and AWS. You will define standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns while guiding cross‑functional teams and client stakeholders.

The role requires hands‑on cloud design experience, YoE in Azure and AWS, and a track record of delivering secure, scalable landing zones and infrastructure as code.

Qualifications

• US Citizen.
• Minimum ten years of cloud or infrastructure architecture and engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing architectures in both Azure and AWS.
• Experience designing landing zones, cloud governance, and security guardrails for enterprise environments.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Works on increasingly complex problems, exercises independent judgment, and provides direction and coordination for a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Assesses the readiness of target Azure and AWS environments to support migration.
• Establishes the migration environment and infrastructure the migration teams use.
• Defines landing zone, target architecture, and security standards and guardrails for migrated workloads.
• Develops reusable migration patterns and infrastructure as code for consistent target deployments.
• Identifies, documents, and remediates cloud environment gaps that would block migration.
• Provides AWS and Azure architecture leadership and guidance to migration teams and specialists.
• Documents architecture decisions and transfers standards and patterns to migration teams and operations staff.

Skills

Infrastructure strategy

Global architectures

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Vendor partnerships

Analytics

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Job description

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead enterprise‑scale cloud initiatives and drive the architecture for multi‑region migrations to Azure and AWS. You will define standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns while guiding cross‑functional teams and client stakeholders.

The role requires hands‑on cloud design experience, YoE in Azure and AWS, and a track record of delivering secure, scalable landing zones and infrastructure as code.