Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities: Cloud Architecture Design scalable and highly available cloud architectures. Select appropriate cloud services based on business and technical requirements. Design: Compute Storage Networking Databases Security Monitoring Backup and disaster recovery Define architecture standards and best practices. Cloud Migration Assess existing on-premises applications and infrastructure. Develop cloud migration strategies. Plan migration using approaches such as: Rehost Replatform Refactor Repurchase Retire Retain Support application modernization. AWS / Azure / GCP A Cloud Architect may specialize in one or more platforms. AWS EC2 S3 VPC IAM RDS Lambda ECS/EKS CloudFront Route 53 CloudWatch Azure Virtual Machines Blob Storage Virtual Network Azure AD / Entra ID Azure SQL Functions AKS Application Gateway Azure Monitor GCP Compute Engine Cloud Storage VPC IAM Cloud SQL Cloud Functions GKE Cloud Monitoring Cloud Security Design secure cloud architectures. Implement IAM and least-privilege access. Configure network security. Implement encryption for data at rest and in transit. Define security controls and compliance requirements. Work with security teams on vulnerability and risk management. Networking Strong understanding of: VPC/VNet Subnets Routing Internet Gateway NAT Gateway Load Balancers Firewalls VPN DNS Private endpoints CDNDevOps & Infrastructure as Code Work closely with DevOps teams using: Terraform Cloud Formation ARM/Bicep Ansible Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Docker Kubernetes