Role Description We are seeking a senior AI/ML Architect to join our team on a contract engagement designing the intelligence layer of an... ...appropriate for the edge environment. ~Evaluate candidate cloud services for…
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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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Role Description We are seeking an experienced Google Apigee Architect for a fully remote contract engagement with Whirlpool. In this role... ..., analytics, and alerting using Apigee Analytics and Google Cloud Monitorin…
$119.58k - $221.63k
enhance AI solution offerings in areas including: ~Digital front door & patient experience ~Clinical workflow optimization ~ Cloud, cybersecurity, and infrastructure modernization ~Revenue cycle transformation ~Drive gro…
Role Description The Principal Cloud Solution Data Architect designs, develops, and implements scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions, integrating source systems, data stores, interfaces, and cloud infrast…
$115k - $128k
Role Description The Salesforce Data Cloud Architect will work with internal and external stakeholders in the direction of the Director, Business Systems Data and CRM Management to design, implement, and optimize AbleNet…
$141k - $230k
distributed systems. ~2+ years of software application development experience using Golang. ~Experience with at least one major Cloud Service Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure). ~Experience with storing, shipping, and retriev…
Description We are seeking an Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architect to lead the design and evolution of our enterprise identity... ...enterprise IAM architecture strategy, target state, and roadmap across cloud,…
Role Description ETL Architect is a high-level business intelligence professional that is a key part of the Data and Analytics Team and will be generally responsible for: ~Dimensional model design ~End to end ETL archite…
$145k - $170k
travel up to 50%. Key Responsibilities: ~Extensive hands-on full-cycle implementation experience of Grants Management in Oracle Cloud to support post-award research administration. ~Lead workshops with business stakehold…
Role Description Buscamos un(a) Ingeniero Cloud con experiencia en diseño, implementación, administración y optimización de soluciones en la nube, capaz de garantizar entornos escalables, seguros, automatizados y alinead…
$138k - $148k
Role Description DEPT® is seeking an Architect, MarTech to lead within our MarTech practice in North America. You bring senior B2B marketing leadership together with Adobe MarTech fluency — owning how B2B demand generati…
$155k - $205k
Role Description Quanata is seeking a Cloud Enablement Engineer to join us in providing a suite of solutions centered by AWS services that enable our product development and engineering organization to create, and delive…
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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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Senior Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Architect
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Principal Architect
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