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Cloud Architect jobs in Los Angeles, 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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digital business enabler in Los Angeles is seeking a Platform Architect to drive technical strategy and solution design for enterprise... ...10 years of experience in architecture and consulting, strong cloud expertise,…
Allergan Aesthetics seeks a hands-on Manager, Cloud Engineering to lead a Platform Engineering team focused on reliability, scale and developer productivity. You will balance production resilience with fast, self-serve t…
infrastructure within both Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Azure cloud environments. - Expertise in designing and implementing highly... ...Networking Specialty Amazon Web Service (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect Microso…
Role: Google Workspace Migration Architect Location: Culver City, CA Job Description Google Workspace Architect... ...Identity, Security & Compliance Azure AD to Google Cloud Directory integration SSO and federation usin…
Lowney Architecture is looking for a Licensed Architect to lead technical delivery and coordination across multiple project types. This role offers autonomy, leadership responsibility, and the opportunity to mentor staff…
all with a personal touch. For more information, visit Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn. Job Description The Manager, Cloud Engineering , will continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to s…
global practice of more than four hundred professionals across eleven offices. Our Los Angeles studio is seeking a talented Project Architect with 5–8 years of experience to join our growing team. Our work includes luxur…
$110k - $140k
recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today! The role at a glance: NBBJis seeking a Senior Project Architect for our Healthcare and Commercial Practices to be located in our San Diego, or Los A…
$60 - $89 per hour
Job Description Job Description Title: Enterprise Cloud Architect Employment Type: 12 Month Contract Compensation Range: $60.00 to $89.00 per hour Location: Downey, CA Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, standard business h…
Job Description Job Description Requirement: Role: AWS Cloud Architect Location: Los Angeles, CA Duration: 18 months contract tohire Interview process: Phone andIn-person interview JobDescription: Top Skills: AWS, Terraf…
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Are you ready to make an impact? Senior Principal/ Architect (Identity & Security) Overview West Monroe is seeking a Senior Principal... ...design, remediation, and modernization of complex identity and cloud infrastruct…
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What cloud architects earn in Los Angeles
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $56–$73 | $116k–$152k |
| Mid level | $73–$97 | $152k–$201k |
| Senior | $94–$129 | $195k–$268k |
Adjusted for the Los Angeles 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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