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Cloud Architect jobs in Baltimore, MD
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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$48–$111/hr
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Engineer I, Mechanical We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too. Come Build The World With UsThis is the career you’ve been waiting for your whole life. Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team me…
Engineer I, Electrical - HybridTowson, MD - United StatesThis is a hybrid position that requires onsite work in Towson, minimum 3 Days per week.Come make the world and accelerate your success. It takes great people to ac…
$134.3k - $231.7k
Sr Director, Systems Engineering & Processes - Hybrid3 Days in Towson, Hybrid to TowsonTowson, Maryland, United StatesCome make the world and accelerate your success.It takes great people to achieve greatness. People wit…
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Sets You Apart- Master's degree in Computer & Information Science, MIS, or related field preferred- Conga, Zuora or Salesforce Revenue Cloud certification preferred- Exposure to Quote-to-Cash, CPQ, Billing, ERP, or Reven…
Job-ID29318174Reference26-26318Remote50% Remote JD: Job Description: Hybrid - onsite 3x a week: Baltimore MD, Evansville IN Must live within 50 miles of OneMain Corporate Office: **Baltimore, MD | Evansville, IN | Charlo…
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development & other cross-functional professionals to deliver solutions to solve customer needs.Communicate Schneider Electric’s software, cloud analytics and services story to our channel partners and contractors as it…
Company DescriptionWork with Us. Change the World.At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work help…
economic vitality, public safety, sustainable and resilient communities and quality of life. We bring together planners, engineers, architects, construction management staff, environmental, strategic communications, econ…
DescriptionAt HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas t…
Financials and surrounding enterprise applications. • Serve as the principal solution architect for solutions involving Oracle Financials/E-Business Suite (EBS), including Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials and associated fi…
DescriptionWho We AreTextron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Th…
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What cloud architects earn in Baltimore
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $48–$63 | $100k–$131k |
| Mid level | $63–$83 | $131k–$173k |
| Senior | $81–$111 | $168k–$231k |
Adjusted for the Baltimore 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
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