Senior Cloud Architect & Engineer – AWS/Azure (Onsite)

State of Georgia; Conyers (GA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Healthcare benefits

Retirement benefits

Flexible work options

Job summary

State of Georgia is seeking an experienced Info Technology Architect (Cloud Engineer) for the Department of Driver Services in Conyers, GA. This on-site role is hybrid, with four days in the office and one remote day weekly.

You will lead cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on secure, scalable multi-cloud solutions, and collaborate with CIO and DevOps teams. The position requires strong hands-on cloud expertise, governance knowledge, and experience with government standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree as required; 10 years of experience or equivalent combination.
• Deep hands-on cloud engineering experience in AWS and Azure.
• Experience with government/public sector IT environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
• Develop and manage cloud networking components, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, VPN gateways, and private endpoints
• Implement and manage cloud storage, compute, and database services with redundancy, backup, and disaster recovery configurations
• Conduct cloud architecture reviews, cost optimization analyses, and infrastructure health assessments
• Manage cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises connectivity such as hybrid tunnels and Direct Connect
• Develop Infrastructure as Code modules using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or Azure Bicep
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and resource lifecycle operations
• Implement auto-scaling policies, tagging, and policy-as-code for governance
• Design and maintain automation scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or AWS Code*
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP

Skills

Cloud architecture

Multi-cloud

DevOps practices

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related specialty

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

State of Georgia is seeking an experienced Info Technology Architect (Cloud Engineer) for the Department of Driver Services in Conyers, GA. This on-site role is hybrid, with four days in the office and one remote day weekly.

You will lead cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focus on secure, scalable multi-cloud solutions, and collaborate with CIO and DevOps teams. The position requires strong hands-on cloud expertise, governance knowledge, and experience with government standards.