Cloud Platform Architect

Enterprise Architect – Cloud & Platform Architecture

Location : Irvine, California, United States (Hybrid)

Experience Required

• *8–16 years overall IT experience; 5–7+ years in cloud/platform architecture;

experience with governance and landing zone patterns**

• *It is permanent Full time role (NO contractors)
• *Hiring only US citizen / Green card holder / GC-EAD / TN visa holder
• *Skills Required**

 Strong experience in cloud and platform architecture (hybrid/multi-cloud)

 Experience designing enterprise cloud foundations (landing zones, guardrails, workload onboarding)

 Understanding of scalability, availability, disaster recovery, and performance design

 Knowledge of hub-spoke networking patterns, private connectivity, and segmentation

 Experience with RBAC, privileged access patterns, and baseline security controls

 Familiarity with policy-driven governance approaches

 Understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and automation patterns

 Monitoring/observability architecture for centralized logging and alerting

 Awareness of cost optimization/FinOps concepts and tagging standards

• *Responsibilities**

 Lead design of cloud landing zone architecture: subscription hierarchy, environment segregation (dev/test/prod), standardized onboarding, and scalable guardrails

 Define identity and access architecture for cloud: RBAC, privileged access patterns (e.g., just-in-time), and separation of duties

 Architect enterprise networking patterns (hub-and-spoke, hybrid connectivity, private endpoints) and standardized segmentation

 Define governance and security baselines using policy-driven controls and enterprise monitoring/security patterns

 Establish platform observability architecture (central logging, metrics, alerting) and integrate security monitoring patterns

 Drive implementation strategy thinking: assessment/planning for landing zones, workload migration suitability, and scalability planning

 Evolve platform foundation toward automation and governance-as-code practices; embed operational controls and cost-awareness principles

 Define reference architectures and golden patterns for application teams to accelerate safe delivery

 Support architecture reviews and ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise architecture direction