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Cloud Architect jobs in Richmond, VA
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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maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and working closely with development and cloud engineering teams. The successful candidate will combine... ...improvements. Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, architects, and infrastr…
Seniority: Expert/Principal Role description: Design, implement, and advise on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) solutions that enable secure integration, extension, and innovation across the enterprise landscape. K…
Seniority: Expert/Principal Role description: Advise on, design, install, configure, and maintain a secure, scalable, high-performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment that supports both Linux and Windows…
Job Description Job Description Job Title: IT Architect – Data & Snowflake (Senior Software Systems Engineer) Rate: $70/hour W2... ...architect end to end data engineering solutions across on prem and cloud platforms, le…
Position: IT Architect – Data & Snowflake Location: Richmond, VA Duration: 12 months Job ID: 175582 Job Overview: The Senior Software... .... ~Partner with data engineering, analytics, business SMEs, cloud infrastructure…
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touch approach and our commitment to secure, innovative, and well- architected platforms. Whether you're early in your career or bring hands-... ...you start, you'll deepen your expertise across a modern cloud- native st…
The Virginia Department of Elections is seeking a Cloud Developer 3 to act as a full stack developer on an existing software development... ...Application Team. Works with the Business Analyst, Application Architect and…
TWO Software Cloud Engineers (CI, CD, CT, Scripting, Java, AWS, Jenkins) in Richmond, VA Agile, AWS, Azure, CI, Continuous Delivery... ...Jenkins, Linux Location: Virginia Job Function: Cloud Solutions Architect Date Of…
can attend ONSITE. Candidates MUST be able to come onsite to pick up laptops, NO exceptions. Our client has an opening for a Cloud Engineer This position is for up to 11 months, with the option of extension, and is locat…
Design and implement high-availability strategies, including failover mechanisms and data replication across multiple data centers or cloud regions. Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures to minimize…
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Job Title: Mainframe Architect (AWS Migration Specialist) Location: Location: Onsite — Preferred: Richmond, VA | McLean, VA |... ...architecture and migration of legacy mainframe systems to AWS cloud environments. Assess…
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What cloud architects earn in Richmond
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 Richmond 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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