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Cloud Architect jobs in Albuquerque, NM
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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$42–$99/hr
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$135k
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Job Description Supports the development and validation of requirements, architectures, trade studies, modeling and simulation, testing, and analysis for electro-optical, laser, sensor, and other electromagnetic systems…
CMS Implementation Engineer Our client, a Professional Services company, is seeking an Implementation Engineer Consultant. We're looking for a hands-on CMS implementer to lead the technical build of a high-visibility web…
Big challenges need bold thinkers. If you’re someone who sees problems as opportunities, you’ll thrive here. RESPEC is 100% employee-owned , which means we take ownership of every challenge. Here, your ideas drive real s…
$160k - $220k
Job ID: 9473 Date Posted: September 15, 2026 Join the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) team and contribute to innovative technologies supporting critical national security missions. We are seeking a motivated mid-level or…
About The Role ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and be…
$130k - $180k
Seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer II to join our team supporting the NEST Communication Program. This role will support the design... ...Associate — AZ-700 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert — AZ-3…
$90k - $140k
Job ID: 8612A Date Posted: August 18, 2026 Join the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) team, where you'll contribute to groundbreaking innovations! We are seeking applicants for a mid-level Multidisciplinary Systems Enginee…
We have an exciting opportunity for experienced Mechanical Engineers to join our Albuquerque, NM team. The qualified applicant will be able to demonstrate an established career in Mechanical Engineering related to projec…
$70k - $90k
We are currently looking for a Traveling Project Engineer to join a well-established heavy and highway contractor. This role supports the construction project management team by handling project administration, data mana…
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What cloud architects earn in Albuquerque
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $42–$56 | $88k–$116k |
| Mid level | $56–$74 | $116k–$153k |
| Senior | $72–$99 | $149k–$205k |
Adjusted for the Albuquerque market from national ranges.
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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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