Senior Cloud Architect — Hybrid & Secure AI-ready

Veriipro; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect to provide strategic leadership for enterprise cloud modernization. The role defines target-state architecture across hybrid/multi-cloud, networking, security, automation, and platform engineering.

The ideal candidate will partner with engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to establish cloud standards, IaC, DevSecOps, Zero Trust, and automated governance practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field; 13+ years experience or equivalent.
• 10+ years of cloud, infrastructure, platform, or systems architecture experience.
• Proven experience as a Principal/Lead Cloud or Infrastructure Architect in large enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in hybrid/multi-cloud, networking, IaC, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, automation, and cloud security.
• Experience with Zero Trust, IAM, microsegmentation, PCI-DSS, and regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of highly available, scalable, resilient infrastructure architectures.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud and infrastructure architecture, standards, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps.
• Architect hybrid/multi-cloud environments across compute, storage, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and shared platforms.
• Drive IaC, DevSecOps, automation, policy-as-code, and platform engineering practices.
• Design secure cloud networking, Zero Trust, IAM, microsegmentation, and infrastructure security controls.
• Establish high availability, disaster recovery, observability, scalability, and resilience patterns.
• Evaluate and architect infrastructure for AI/ML, Generative AI, and intelligent automation workloads.
• Ensure architecture aligns with PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO 27001, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, modernization initiatives, and technical design sessions.
• Mentor engineers and architects and influence technical decisions across matrixed teams.
• Communicate architecture strategy, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Hybrid/multi-cloud

IaC

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

Automation

Cloud security

Zero Trust

IAM

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree (CS/IT/Engineering)

Master’s degree or equivalent (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Veriipro is seeking a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect to provide strategic leadership for enterprise cloud modernization. The role defines target-state architecture across hybrid/multi-cloud, networking, security, automation, and platform engineering.

The ideal candidate will partner with engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to establish cloud standards, IaC, DevSecOps, Zero Trust, and automated governance practices.