Cloud Architect

Position : : Cloud Architect

Location : : Austin ,TX / Fort Mill ,SC (Hybrid)

Contract : : 12+ Months

Job Description : :

To drive the completion of a critical enterprise initiative involving multi-environment orchestration, third-party integration scaling, and CI / CD automation across cloud and on-prem workloads.

Key Responsibilities :

• Own and drive the end-to-end strategy to build scalable, parallel, and consistent environment patterns across both cloud and on-premises platforms.
• Lead the design and implementation of dynamic routing patterns for third-party integrations (e.g., Adobe Sign, Salesforce) to support multiple environments using a single shared external QA endpoint.
• Build and roll out repeatable environment configuration patterns to support feature branch testing, mergers & acquisitions integration, and upstream integration testing.
• Partner with DevSecOps, AppDev, Data, and Platform teams to solve long-standing CI / CD bottlenecks, environment drift, and external service routing complexities.
• Assess and remediate hardcoded configurations, enabling full version-controlled, infrastructure-as-code adoption across environments.
• Coordinate efforts to establish and normalize environment mapping for data foundations, legacy applications, and container / VM-based workloads.
• Lead a small team (or influence cross-functional SMEs) to design, pilot, and productionize patterns and inner-source tooling that supports self-service environment creation and deployment.
• Support the transition away from Octopus Deploy to GitHub Actions, where applicable, in collaboration with CI / CD stakeholders.
• Work closely with technical and business leaders to gain alignment, socialize solutions, and take ownership of execution through to delivery.

Must-Have Skills :

1. Cloud Platform Expertise :

o Deep experience with AWS, including VPCs, IAM, Route53, networking, and environment management.

o Experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.

2. Hybrid Deployment Proficiency :

o Comfortable working with both containerized workloads (EKS, ECS) and VM-based / legacy applications in on-prem data centers.

o Ability to modernize on-prem deployments and integrate with cloud-native tooling.

3. CI / CD Strategy & Implementation :

o Proven experience in defining CI / CD pipelines across mixed environments.

o Strong understanding of GitHub Actions, with working knowledge of Octopus Deploy and strategies for phased migration.

4. Environment Management & Routing Design :

o Ability to design and implement routing patterns for third-party integrations across multiple parallel environments.

o Understanding of feature branch environment automation and n / n+1 component testing strategies.

5. Communication & Cross-Team Leadership :

o Strong facilitation skills to coordinate across multiple teams and VPs.

o Ability to distill complex problems, define actionable strategies, and gain alignment across stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills :