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Cloud Architect jobs in Raleigh, NC
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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Job Id: 0000175339Job Category: OtherJob Location: RaleighSecurity Clearance: No ClearanceBusiness Unit: Piper CompaniesPosition Owner: Mariah McCowanPiper Companies is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer to sit onsite i…
$115k - $140k
position with 2 days onsite in the office. The Azure DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure and deployment automation within Microsoft Azure environments. An…
building types, from high-performance data centers that power cloud computing and the digital infrastructure the world relies on, to... ...Charlotte, NC; Raleigh, NC; or Atlanta, GA.You’ll lead teams of architects, plann…
$140k - $170k
improvements aligned with mission requirements.Qualifications of the DevOps Engineer - Secret Clearance:• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or systems engineering roles.• Active Secret clearance is req…
$120k - $140k
hybrid position with 3 days onsite in the office. The DevSecOps Engineer will focus on vulnerability remediation across applications and cloud environments, ensuring security risks are identified, prioritized, and resolv…
$125k - $150k
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Active Directory services. An ideal candidate for the Azure Engineer role is an experienced cloud engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, secure VDI implementations, and…
$105k - $120k
North CarolinaSecurity Clearance: No ClearanceBusiness Unit: Piper CompaniesPosition Owner: Jackie AllenPiper Companies is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to support a leading organization in the technology industry in…
$130k - $150k
RaleighSecurity Clearance: No ClearanceBusiness Unit: Piper CompaniesPosition Owner: Jacqueline NorsworthyPiper Companies is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join a leading technology-focused organization in the Rese…
landmarks and infrastructure, your work will directly influence how individuals experience the world around them. We bring together architects, planners, designers, and technical experts to solve complex design challenge…
how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. HDR is looking for a Senior Project Architect to join our Healthcare Architecture Practice in either Charlotte, Raleigh, or…
$116.2k - $229.1k
a Senior Consultant in Engineering Foundry, AI & E/EaaS - DevOps, you will support the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud, automation, and platform engineering solutions across complex environments. This r…
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What cloud architects earn in Raleigh
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $45–$60 | $94k–$124k |
| Mid level | $60–$78 | $124k–$163k |
| Senior | $76–$105 | $158k–$218k |
Adjusted for the Raleigh 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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