collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).The Principal Cloud Architect will help shape the next generation of enterprise cloud and AI strategy a…
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Cloud architects design how an organization's systems run on platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP — balancing reliability, security, and cost, and guiding teams through migrations and growth.
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What cloud architects earn in the US
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| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $46–$60 | $95k–$125k |
| Mid level | $60–$79 | $125k–$165k |
| Senior | $77–$106 | $160k–$220k |
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Modernization team, you will design, configure, and deliver Genesys Cloud CX solutions for enterprise clients. You will be a hands-on... ...requirements through build, testing, and go-live, working with architects, busin…
$123k - $184k
General Information Job Title Senior OpenStack Cloud Architect Job ID 18461 City Austin State/Province Texas Date Posted 24-Aug-2026 Job Category Information Technology Job Subcategory Enterprise Solutions Architect Hire…
$133k - $222.1k
through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.The Cloud Architect will support a Federal Law Enforcement agency by leading the design impl…
$189.05k
Cloud Architect - Irvine, CA. Seeking candidate with Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field and 5 years cloud infrastructure, software development or related experience.Position r…
$144.38k - $245.45k
This role is contingent upon a contract award. ICF is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to provide senior technical leadership across enterprise architecture, platform integration, application modernization, product…
AWS Professional Services (ProServe) is seeking a ProServe Cloud Architect (PCA) specializing in the semiconductor and high tech manufacturing vertical. You will engage directly with organizations such as NVIDIA, Intel,…
want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.We are currently seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect - AWS & Service Activation-- Hybrid Irving, TX or Charlotte, NC to join…
$153.6k - $207.8k
active TS/SCI security clearance. The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced ProServe Cloud Architect (PCA) to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll…
Expert Cloud Architect Oakland, CA - Hybrid (2 days onsite per week) 12 Months Department Overview Information Technology delivers secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise platforms that support critical business appli…
$135k - $145k
weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Cloud Engineer to join our Quantitative Investment Science organization. This role is…
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design and deploy secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, experience with AWS and/or Goo…
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Deep AWS, Azure, or GCP expertiseArchitecture patterns and tradeoffsNetworking and security designInfrastructure as codeCost modeling and FinOpsMigration planningKubernetes and containersStakeholder communicationWriting architecture documents
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Design a highly available architecture for a customer-facing web application.
Ask about requirements and budget first. Cover multi-AZ, load balancing, data replication, and failure modes — and say what you would deliberately not build at this scale.
How would you plan a migration from on-premises to the cloud?
Talk about assessment, choosing rehost versus refactor per workload, sequencing by risk, and running hybrid during the transition. Phased beats big-bang.
A team's cloud costs doubled in a quarter. How do you investigate?
Visibility first — cost explorer, tagging — then the usual suspects: data transfer, oversized instances, forgotten environments. Show you treat cost as an architectural property.
When would you advise against microservices?
Small teams, unclear domain boundaries, or operational immaturity. Arguing against a fashionable pattern with specifics is a strong signal for an architect.
How do you get engineering teams to actually follow your architecture?
Influence over mandate: reference architectures, paved-road templates, and review checkpoints. Acknowledge that unused architecture documents are a failure mode.
How do you design for disaster recovery, and how do you set RTO/RPO?
Explain that RTO/RPO are business decisions with price tags, then map them to backup, pilot-light, or active-active patterns. Mention actually testing the recovery.
Tell me about an architecture decision you got wrong.
Pick a real one, explain the reasoning at the time, and what your process learned from it. Architects who claim a clean record are not believed.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For cloud architects specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Anchor each role in scale and outcomes: workloads migrated, availability achieved, annual spend managed or reduced.
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List current professional-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect); they are near-mandatory screens for this title.
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Show breadth across compute, networking, data, and security — architecture hiring looks for T-shaped depth.
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Include the organizational side: teams guided, architecture reviews run, standards adopted.
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Name a migration or greenfield build you owned end to end; a single deep case study outweighs a list of services.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Architect
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Principal Architect
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Cloud Architect jobs by city
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