Position: Enterprise Cloud Architect with Azure and AWS services
Location: Toronto, Canada(Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract
Job Description:
Design and architect scalable| secure cloud solutions across Azure and AWS. Build and manage cloud landing zones (identity| governance| networking| security).Lead cloud migration transformation initiatives| including assessments| wave planning| modernization| and execution.
Develop reference architectures| HLDLLD| and cloud design patterns. Implement and optimize cloud infrastructure compute| storage| networking| load balancing| monitoring. Deploy and manage PaaS services (AKSEKS| App Services| Functions Lambda| managed databases).Define and enforce cloud security| IAMRBAC| encryption| and governance frameworks. Architect hybrid connectivity (VNetVPC| VPN| ExpressRoute Direct Connect).Drive automation using Terraform| BicepARM| CloudFormation| and CICD pipelines. Collaborate with DevOps| Security| and Application teams provide technical leadership.
Essential Skills: More than 10+ years in cloud architecture| infrastructure| or platform engineering.
Deep hands-on experience with Azure and AWS services. Good experience in designing a multi-cloud architecture spanning Azure| AWS| and GCP with unified governance and cost management.
Strong background in cloud migration| modernization| and transformation programs.
Relevant certifications (Azure AWS Architect| Terraform Associate).
Experience with FinOps practices tagging strategy| chargeback models| and multi-cloud cost analytics.
Ability to design and deploy an Azure Enterprise-Scale Landing Zone with Hub-Spoke / VWAN topology. proficient with AKS private clusters| AAD integration| ingress| KEDA autoscaling| and GitOps. Knowledge of Azure Entra ID Conditional Access| PIM| Managed Identities| and B2B/B2C federation. ability to design multi-account AWS environments with AWS Organizations| SCPs| and Transit Gateway networking.
proficient with AWS container/serverless workloads EKS| Fargate| Lambda| and event-driven patterns.
Experience in designing a GCP Shared VPC| GKE Autopilot environment with IAM hierarchy governance. experience with GCP data/analytics services BigQuery| Dataflow| Pub/Sub| and Looker. ability to design OCI VCN architectures with DRG| FastConnect| and compute fleet sizing. experience with OCI Autonomous DB| Exadata Cloud| and Oracle DB migrations. Experience with design hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute / Direct Connect / FastConnect) with BGP and failover. SD-WAN and network virtualization experience (NSX-T| VXLAN| overlay architectures). IAM/PAM design expertise least-privilege| CyberArk/BeyondTrust| and federated identity (SAML/OIDC). experience with CSPM tools (Defender for Cloud| Prisma Cloud| Wiz) and posture remediation. ability to map cloud controls to compliance frameworks (ISO 27001| SOC 2| PCI-DSS) for audit readiness. Terraform / Bicep / CDK proficiency module design| remote state| policy gates| and cross-provider IaC. experienced with building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps and GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux). design a multi-cloud observability strategy using Azure Monitor| Datadog. design and deploy Generative AI / LLM solutions (Azure OpenAI| AWS Bedrock| Vertex AI Gemini) with RAG. MLOps maturity model registry| feature stores| training pipelines| and inference endpoint governance. experienced with Edge / IoT architectures (Azure IoT Edge| AWS Greengrass| GCP Edge) and cloud-to-edge pipelines. Excellent communication| requirement analysis| documentation| and presentation skills
