Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect Location: Austin, TX / Fort Mill, SC (Hybrid) Contract: 12+ Months Job Description: To drive the completion of a critical enterprise initiative involving multi-environment orchestration, third-party integration scaling, and CI/CD automation across cloud and on-prem workloads. Key Responsibilities: Own and drive the end-to-end strategy to build scalable, parallel, and consistent environment patterns across both cloud and on-premises platforms. Lead the design and implementation of dynamic routing patterns for third-party integrations (e.g., Adobe Sign, Salesforce) to support multiple environments using a single shared external QA endpoint. Build and roll out repeatable environment configuration patterns to support feature branch testing, mergers & acquisitions integration, and upstream integration testing. Partner with DevSecOps, AppDev, Data, and Platform teams to solve long-standing CI/CD bottlenecks, environment drift, and external service routing complexities. Assess and remediate hardcoded configurations, enabling full version-controlled, infrastructure-as-code adoption across environments. Coordinate efforts to establish and normalize environment mapping for data foundations, legacy applications, and container/VM-based workloads. Lead a small team (or influence cross-functional SMEs) to design, pilot, and productionize patterns and inner-source tooling that supports self-service environment creation and deployment. Support the transition away from Octopus Deploy to GitHub Actions, where applicable, in collaboration with CI/CD stakeholders. Work closely with technical and business leaders to gain alignment, socialize solutions, and take ownership of execution through to delivery. Must-Have Skills: Cloud Platform Expertise: Deep experience with AWS, including VPCs, IAM, Route53, networking, and environment management. Experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation. Hybrid Deployment Proficiency: Comfortable working with both containerized workloads (EKS, ECS) and VM-based/legacy applications in on-prem data centers. Ability to modernize on-prem deployments and integrate with cloud-native tooling. CI/CD Strategy & Implementation: Proven experience in defining CI/CD pipelines across mixed environments. Strong understanding of GitHub Actions, with working knowledge of Octopus Deploy and strategies for phased migration. Environment Management & Routing Design: Ability to design and implement routing patterns for third-party integrations across multiple parallel environments. Understanding of feature branch environment automation and n/n+1 component testing strategies. Communication & Cross-Team Leadership: Strong facilitation skills to coordinate across multiple teams and VPs. Ability to distill complex problems, define actionable strategies, and gain alignment across stakeholders. Nice-to-Have Skills: Experience supporting mergers & acquisitions, especially with system consolidation and environment parallelization. Familiarity with configuration management challenges in legacy systems. Previous success in taking enterprise-scale environment transformation projects to the finish line. Experience with inner-sourcing practices or shared platform tooling rollouts InterSources