Senior Cloud Architect: IT Modernization & DCO

Conquest Consulting; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Conquest Consulting in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to lead cloud architecture for the State of Texas IT modernization and Data Center transformation. The role covers AWS/Azure/GCP, DevOps, Kubernetes, and hybrid-cloud initiatives.

The candidate will drive end-to-end cloud strategies, security, governance, and data platform alignment with business stakeholders and enterprise architects.

Qualifications

• 16--20 years of IT experience.
• Extensive experience architecting enterprise IT solutions.
• Strong experience with cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Extensive understanding of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP services.
• Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Experience with IT modernization and infrastructure transformation.
• Cloud DevOps and CI/CD experience.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, containers, and microservices.
• IaC with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Cloud automation and configuration management.
• Cloud monitoring, logging, auditing, and operations tools.
• Cloud security, data governance, and compliance.
• Strong architecture diagramming and technical writing.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT modernization and Data Center Transformation initiatives.
• Develop enterprise cloud infrastructure architectures for large-scale programs.
• Plan and engineer cloud infrastructure and hybrid environments.
• Provide architectural direction across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• Develop cloud-based network architectures and infrastructure designs.
• Lead cross-functional project teams and technical workgroups.
• Support application modernization with containers, microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless infra.
• Architect, deploy, scale, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Establish CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Design cloud monitoring, logging, auditing, and operations solutions.
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and data management standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Hybrid Cloud

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch/Azure Monitor/GCP Ops

Security & Governance

Architecture Diagramming

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

ARM Templates

Kubernetes Helm

Cloud CLI

Job description

Conquest Consulting in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to lead cloud architecture for the State of Texas IT modernization and Data Center transformation. The role covers AWS/Azure/GCP, DevOps, Kubernetes, and hybrid-cloud initiatives.

The candidate will drive end-to-end cloud strategies, security, governance, and data platform alignment with business stakeholders and enterprise architects.