$82k - $164k
Salary: $82,000 - 164,000 per year Requirements: Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for secu…
Engineering & IT · Tucson, AZ
Cloud Architect jobs in Tucson, AZ
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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$43–$100/hr
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$136k
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$107.5k - $204.5k
Salary: $107,500 - 204,500 per year Requirements: A Bachelors degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM is preferred) and at least 8 years of relevant experience Proven experience in Systems Engine…
$86.8k - $165.2k
Salary: $86,800 - 165,200 per year Requirements: We require a Bachelors degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics, with STEM preferred, plus at least 5 years of prior engineering experience. We need expe…
$100k - $132k
Job Title: Electrical Engineer PE Location: Tucson, Arizona Type: Direct Hire Compensation: $100,000.00 - $132,000.00 Contractor Work Model: Hybrid – onsite and remote Overview The Electrical Engineer, PE I is responsibl…
$60 - $87.5 per hour
Job Title : Senior Mechanical Engineer Work Location: Tucson, AZ 85756 Duration: 12 months contract with potential extension Work Schedule: 9/80A Shift: 1 st Shift Pay : $60.00 - $87.50 per hour on W2! Citizenship Requir…
Drive thoughtful, creative design solutions to push the boundaries of what's possible As a Design Architect at Bourn Companies, you will play a central role in creating distinctive, high-impact environments across a dive…
About The Role ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more – all with the goal…
Job Description Job Description THIS ROLE IS ON-SITE IN TUCSON, ARIZONA AND WILL REQUIRE RELOCATION Job Title: Systems Engineer Job Description This Systems Engineer role focuses on the design, integration, and developme…
Requisition ID: 98989 Job Category: Engineering; Metals; Mining Location: Tucson, AZ, United States Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 7…
responsible for managing and implementing advanced IT infrastructure and cloud projects. This includes designing complex architectures,... ...Preferred Skills: · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Micros…
Communities to support national security. Rincon Research Corporation is looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to develop advanced secure cloud computing solutions for complex national security and defense challenges in signa…
$140k - $200k
Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required) Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency…
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What cloud architects earn in Tucson
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $43–$57 | $89k–$118k |
| Mid level | $57–$75 | $118k–$155k |
| Senior | $72–$100 | $150k–$207k |
Adjusted for the Tucson 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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