Senior Cloud Architect: Multi-Cloud, Secure & Cost-Efficient

Brown Medicine; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown University Health is seeking an IT Cloud Architect to lead multi-cloud design and support across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. You will ensure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud environments aligned with business needs and compliance requirements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, IaC automation, disaster recovery, and ongoing optimization. Strong scripting, containerization, and networking skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT preferred with 5+ years of cloud design experience.
• Industry certifications in cloud/IT management (Azure, AWS, Cisco, VMware) are desirable.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP and containerization technologies; scripting in Python/PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business and technical needs.
• Design scalable, secure cloud architectures meeting performance and compliance requirements.
• Create detailed design documents and diagrams for cloud solutions.
• Deploy resources in Azure and AWS; build IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
• Implement security best practices and access controls for cloud environments.
• Ensure compliance with GDPR/HIPAA and other standards; monitor performance and optimize resources.
• Develop high availability, DR, backup strategies; optimize cloud costs and monitoring.
• Provide training on cloud practices and maintain comprehensive documentation.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Containerization

Python

PowerShell

IaC

Security & compliance

Networking

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM templates

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Brown University Health is seeking an IT Cloud Architect to lead multi-cloud design and support across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. You will ensure secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud environments aligned with business needs and compliance requirements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, IaC automation, disaster recovery, and ongoing optimization. Strong scripting, containerization, and networking skills are essential for success.