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Cloud Architect jobs in San Diego, 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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Position OverviewThe Sales Engineer is responsible for driving sales growth, expanding market presence, and serving as a technical resource for customers, consulting engineers, contractors, representatives, and end users…
$159.2k - $215.3k
opportunity to join a team that is shaping the future of global connectivity at scale.We are looking for a Broadband Phased Array Architect to join the Payload Architecture team in San Diego. You will be a key technical…
San Diego, California / San Mateo, CaliforniaHivemind Enterprise Division - Forge /Full Time Employee /On-siteShield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilian…
$149.8k - $262.2k
secrets management as applied to data services.Experience with managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), managed data services (RDS/Aurora, Cloud SQL, MSK, ElastiCache), and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Cros…
$149.8k - $262.2k
and deliver them end-to-end.What you get to do in this role:You will design, build, and operate components and services within the cloud- native platform, taking features from design through to production.You will lead w…
$160k - $250k
San Diego, CaliforniaHivemind Enterprise Division - Pilot /Full Time Employee /On-siteShield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent syste…
$105k - $168k
Job TitleSenior Procurement/Strategic Sourcing EngineerJob DescriptionThe Senior Procurement Engineer develops and industrializes the supply base, drives Product Cost Roadmaps (PCRs), and executes Design for eXcellence (…
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…
$98.4k - $147.6k
What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world…
Title : Genesys Cloud Architect Location : San Diego CA(Remote) (10+ Year Experience) Key Responsibilities Architecture & Design: Design end-to-end contact center solutions on Genesys Cloud, ensuring high availability, g…
Preferred Skills Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and AEP Datastreams. Experience with Adobe Analytics or related Adobe Experience Cloud products. Experience supporting analytics implementations through web…
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What cloud architects earn in San Diego
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $54–$71 | $112k–$148k |
| Mid level | $71–$94 | $148k–$195k |
| Senior | $91–$125 | $189k–$260k |
Adjusted for the San Diego 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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Cloud Architect
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