$141.44k - $212.16k
Platform is a senior-level individual contributor and technical architect trusted to define the architectural direction of Citi's... ...development using Java technologies, including Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and reacti…
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Cloud Architect jobs in Tampa, FL
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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$91.07k - $145k
Requisition Number: 30238 Required Travel: 0 - 10%Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/ExemptAnticipated Salary Range: $91,073.00 - $145,000.00 Security Clearance: TS/SCI Level of Experience: Mid HIThis opportunity reside…
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Agency: Veterans Health AdministrationDepartment: Department of Veterans AffairsSub agency: James A Haley Veterans HospitalSalary: Starting at $141,829 Per year (GS 14)Dates: Open 09/23/2026 to 10/05/2026Schedule: Full-t…
$118.7k - $243.7k
zero-trust principles, methodologies, and technologies.Collaborate with Network and Firewall Teams, Application Teams, Server Teams, Cloud Engineering Teams etc. to design, implement, and support an enterprise-class appl…
our team to achieve global growth. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to support our Cloud Platform team. If you are looking... ...solutions and services ensuring best practicesWork with solution architects, tech…
$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…
realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.#LI-JG9Our Florida Architecture Studio is hiring a Project Architect for our Healthcare practice. This position can be based in Tampa, Jackso…
great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. #LI-JG9Our Florida Architecture Studio is hiring a Project Architect for our Justice practice. This position would ideally be based in our Tampa off…
$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…
economic vitality, public safety, sustainable and resilient communities and quality of life. We bring together planners, engineers, architects, construction management staff, environmental, strategic communications, econ…
DescriptionAt HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas t…
environments across development, staging, and production. The role will be responsible for code release deployments, technology upgrades, cloud infrastructure operations, troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintaining high…
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What cloud architects earn in Tampa
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 Tampa 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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