Job Description
Job Description
Title: Enterprise Cloud Architect
Employment Type: 12 Month Contract
Compensation Range: $60.00 to $89.00 per hour
Location: Downey, CA
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, standard business hours
Industry: Government / Public Sector
Company Overview
This organization operates within a large public sector technology environment supporting enterprise infrastructure across multiple departments and operational functions. The environment requires secure, resilient, and scalable cloud networking solutions across AWS, Azure, hybrid connectivity, and multi-cloud architecture.
Position Summary
The Enterprise Cloud Architect will design, implement, and manage cloud network infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments. This role will focus on high availability, fault tolerance, hybrid connectivity, network security, traffic engineering, and secure multi-cloud architecture to support enterprise-scale technology operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and manage network infrastructure within AWS and Azure cloud environments
- Architect highly available and fault-tolerant cloud network environments across multi-region and multi-Availability Zone deployments
- Develop resiliency patterns, automated failover solutions, disaster recovery strategies, and business continuity network designs
- Implement hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Transit Gateway and Azure ExpressRoute
- Provision and manage Megaport services, including Virtual Cross Connects, to support secure private connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments
- Manage network traffic flows including ingress routing, egress routing, traffic optimization, path selection, and high-availability design across distributed cloud environments
- Deploy, configure, and manage cloud-native load balancing services including AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Application Gateway
- Deploy and manage virtual firewall solutions, including Network Virtual Appliances such as Palo Alto VM-Series and Cisco CSR 8000v
- Configure and manage native cloud security controls including AWS Security Groups, Azure Network Security Groups, and Network Access Control Lists
- Design and implement VPC peering, VNet peering, hybrid connectivity, multi-region architectures, and multi-cloud architectures
- Configure and manage Border Gateway Protocol in cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud network environments
- Apply secure network architecture principles including access control, segmentation, and compliance-aligned design practices
Required Qualifications
- Minimum six years of experience designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based network infrastructure
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud networking environments
- Minimum four years of experience designing and implementing highly available and resilient cloud network architectures
- Minimum four years of experience with failover, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions
- Minimum four years of hands-on experience with AWS and Azure networking services including Transit Gateway, ExpressRoute, load balancing, routing, and hybrid connectivity
- Minimum four years of experience implementing and supporting Megaport services, including Virtual Cross Connect provisioning and private cloud connectivity
- Minimum four years of experience in network traffic engineering, routing optimization, network segmentation, firewall deployment, and secure connectivity design
- Strong knowledge of cloud network security constructs including AWS Security Groups, Azure Network Security Groups, and Network Access Control Lists
- Proficiency configuring and managing BGP in cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud network environments
- Must possess at least one of the following certifications: AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting public sector, regulated, enterprise, or large-scale infrastructure environments
- Hands-on experience with Palo Alto VM-Series, Cisco CSR 8000v, native cloud firewalls, and Network Virtual Appliances
- Experience designing secure multi-cloud architectures with AWS, Azure, Megaport, and private connectivity solutions
- Experience supporting compliance-aligned cloud networking, network segmentation, and secure access control models