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monitoring, performance tuning, and highly available datastore services.Develop short- and long-term product and operational strategies for Cloud Atlas in partnership with product management and architecture teams.Manage…
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Cloud Architect jobs in Seattle, WA
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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growth team to reach new audiences, make learning more welcoming, and turn first play into long-term participation.As the Product Architect for Magic New Player Growth, you will set the vision and roadmap for Magic’s acq…
$154k - $191k
DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. You’ll build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines that power our worldwide re…
$148.5k - $223.9k
transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large…
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…
$74.2k - $148.23k
maintaining positive client relationships.ResponsibilitiesMulti- cloud platform engineering and operations (design and operate... .... Certifications / licenses (2 or more preferred)AWS Solutions Architect - Professional…
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and adv…
$143.7k - $194.4k
will redefine how Amazon understands every product on the planet. As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will help architect, build, and ship the AI-native matching platform that replaces decades of accumul…
$110.7k - $218.3k
Position Summary Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Senior ConsultantDeloitte's Sales & Service practice partners with the world... ...like before a single screen gets builtPartnering with solution architects and platform te…
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…
$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…
building types, from high-performance data centers that power cloud computing and the digital infrastructure the world relies on, to... ...maintenance facilities, among other project types.You’ll lead teams of architects…
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What cloud architects earn in Seattle
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $57–$75 | $119k–$156k |
| Mid level | $75–$99 | $156k–$206k |
| Senior | $96–$132 | $200k–$275k |
Adjusted for the Seattle 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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