We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Architect to design and establish secure, scalable, and highly available cloud architectures. The role will focus on Azure landing zones, cloud governance, reference architecture…
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Cloud Architect jobs in Houston, TX
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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support deployment automation into diverse containerized clusters and data platforms. Support complicated pipelines involving multi- cloud, multi-platform, and on-premises systems. Mentor mid-level/junior engineers. Requ…
candidate with hands-on Azure experience to work with a team in Houston. The project aims to accelerate the setup of a minimum viable cloud in Azure, starting as soon as possible. The position requires expertise in netwo…
First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own end-to-end automation, cloud provisioning, and secure CI/CD pipelines. You will lead IaC efforts with Terraform and Ansible, implement container orc…
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business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined wit…
Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect (Consumer Goods) Location This is a hybrid role based in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, New York & San Francisco. About the job you're considering We are seeking a Salesforce Tech…
Job Description Job Description We are looking for an experienced IT Cloud Architect to guide enterprise infrastructure strategy and shape scalable cloud solutions for a business operating in Houston, Texas. This Long-te…
elements of all these positions. The Role Platform Engineering: Building, designing and architecting automated solutions for scalable deployment across private and public cloud infrastructure. Low Latency: Supporting and…
Job Summary We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in cloud architecture, infrastr…
Cloud Solution Architect – Threat Protection Location: Houston, Texas (Remote) Invoke—Microsoft Partner of the Year and among the top 0.01% of Microsoft Partners in the U.S.—is seeking a hands-on consultant to lead enter…
top 10 Microsoft Security partner? Invoke, a 100% Microsoft-focused partner, is seeking an experienced endpoint management Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to primarily focus on Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, Azure Managem…
some of the largest and leading-edge engagements; the role of the Cloud Solution Engineer is to be customer-facing and to play an... ...services delivery. A minimum of 2 years of experience as an Architect or Consultant…
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What cloud architects earn in Houston
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $45–$59 | $93k–$122k |
| Mid level | $59–$78 | $122k–$162k |
| Senior | $75–$104 | $157k–$216k |
Adjusted for the Houston 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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