Brooksource · 1 week ago
Senior Cloud Architect / Engineer
Kentucky, United States
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$75/hr - $80/hr
8+ years expBrooksource is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect/Engineer to design, build, and govern a cloud landing zone and enterprise architecture for their public sector client. The role involves technical planning, architecture development, and implementing security and identity solutions within major cloud providers like AWS or Azure.
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Responsibilities
Perform technical planning, architecture development, and specification updates for the cloud environment; deliver reference architectures that pass security review
Define and implement the landing zone with Infrastructure-as-Code: VPC/subnets, PrivateLink, ALB/NLB/WAF, KMS/Secrets Manager, RDS/Aurora/SQL Server patterns, backup/DR (for AWS); VNets/subnets, Private Endpoint, Application Gateway/Firewall, Key Vault, Azure SQL patterns, backup/DR (for Azure)
Design observability (App Insights/Log Analytics or CloudWatch/CloudTrail/OpenSearch) and baseline SLOs with alert runbooks
Integrate enterprise identity (Entra ID or AWS IAM/IAM Identity Center) and secrets management (Key Vault or KMS/Secrets Manager)
Partner with the Database Architect on data connectivity, encryption, and performance; support cutover and rollback readiness
Cloud reference architecture and landing zone with IaC templates (Bicep/Terraform or CloudFormation/Terraform)
Identity and security integration blueprint
Disaster recovery plan and test results; operational runbooks
Cloud readiness findings and modernization work plans
Qualification
Required
≥ 8 years enterprise cloud architecture/engineering (AWS or Azure), with at least one re-platform or migration delivered
Hands-on with experience with Networking: VNets/VPCs, subnets, Private Endpoint/PrivateLink, routing, perimeter controls (AppGW/Firewall or ALB/NLB/WAF)
Hands-on with experience with Identity/secrets: Entra ID or AWS IAM/Identity Center; Key Vault or KMS/Secrets Manager
Hands-on with experience with Data tier: Azure SQL or AWS RDS/Aurora/SQL Server; encryption and DR patterns
Hands-on with experience with IaC: Bicep/Terraform or CloudFormation/Terraform
Produced reference architectures that supported security sign-off and go-live
Preferred
State/federal modernization experience
Certs - AWS Solutions Architect Professional and/or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Company
Brooksource
Brooksource is a single source for project and supplemental support through contract employment, contract-to-hire labor employment.
1001-5000 employees
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Ashley Cigolotti
Director, Global Partnerships
Matt Ayala
National Account Executive (Global Partnerships)
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