Requisition ID # 170637 Job Category: Engineering / Science Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Strategy & Growth Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Fresno Department Overview The hardworking coworkers of Elect…
Engineering & IT · Fresno, CA
Cloud Architect jobs in Fresno, CA
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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Requisition ID # 172484 Job Category: Engineering / Science Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Strategy & Growth Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Fresno Department Overview The hardworking coworkers of Elect…
$80k - $120k
About Us At Clark Bros, Inc., we pride ourselves on being a trusted leader in the construction industry with over 65 years of success. As a heavy civil construction company, we are dedicated to driving sustainable change…
$80k - $120k
About Us: At Clark Bros, Inc., we pride ourselves on being a trusted leader in the construction industry with over 65 years of success. As a heavy civil construction company, we are dedicated to driving sustainable chang…
$80k - $112k
Position Description Purpose The purpose of this role is to develop well-rounded future talent with construction expertise across multi-disciplines – ultimately creating professionals with experience in the full scope of…
$72k - $90k
SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide. Job Descriptio…
performance. Key Responsibilities Drive Sales & Scope Opportunities Build and maintain relationships with design engineers, architects, building owners, facility managers, and property managers. Identify customer needs a…
Job Description Job Description Overview Must reside within a commutable distance from our Fresno location. Opportunities for you! ~ Tuition reimbursement, education programs, and scholarships ~ Vacation time starts buil…
$83.6k - $145k
that is taking concrete actions toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion? We’re looking for an experienced and Licensed California Architect to join our Education team working on various projects from K-12 to higher educa…
$90.1k - $115.2k
coordination of construction documents, ensuring alignment with DSA codes, standards, and consultant work. Collaborate with project architects to resolve design, program, and regulatory requirements (DSA). Coordinate wit…
JLB Traffic Engineering, Inc. (JLB) is looking for Project Engineers interested in full-time positions with experience in traffic and civil engineering with a transportation background. JLB offers a positive and supporti…
$70k - $95k
Come work in a dynamic environment where people are inspired to produce high quality work every day. Not only will you receive a generous PTO & benefits plan, but also a nationally recognized 401(k) retirement plan with…
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What cloud architects earn in Fresno
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $43–$57 | $90k–$119k |
| Mid level | $57–$75 | $119k–$157k |
| Senior | $73–$100 | $152k–$209k |
Adjusted for the Fresno 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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Cloud Architect
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