IAM Governance

Job Title : CLOUD ARCHITECT

Location : Raritan, NJ, 08869 - Onsite

Mode : Contract

Job Description : Key Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Cloud Architecture : Guide the design and continuous evolution of enterprise cloud architecture across multiple cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and hybrid on-premises environments.
• Develop Reference Architectures : Create and maintain detailed reference architectures, patterns, and blueprints covering compute, storage, networking, security, identity, data, and analytics domains.
• Translate Business Needs : Convert business requirements into scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions aligned with organizational goals.
• Establish Standards and Governance : Define and enforce governance models, standards, and best practices for cloud adoption, including identity and access management (IAM), networking, cost controls, and compliance measures.
• Drive Cloud Migration and Modernization : Lead migration and modernization initiatives (rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting, repurchase) with clear roadmaps, milestones, and comprehensive risk management strategies.
• Security and Compliance : Define and enforce security architectures, compliance controls, data protection policies, encryption standards, key management, and incident response plans.
• Optimize Cloud Spend : Implement cost governance practices, tagging strategies, right-sizing, automation, and lifecycle management to maximize cloud investment value.
• Architect Automation and CI / CD Pipelines : Design automation workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) to enable rapid and repeatable deployments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work closely with security, site reliability, data engineering, and application teams to ensure reliability, observability, and optimal system performance.
• Cloud Service Evaluation : Assess, select, and manage relationships with cloud service vendors, maintaining due diligence and managing associated risks.
• Technical Leadership and Mentoring : Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers, developers, and operations teams; communicate architecture decisions and rationale to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity : Develop robust architectures for disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup; design for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Performance and Monitoring : Establish and uphold performance benchmarks, monitoring, logging, and incident management practices, driving continuous improvement initiatives.

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