Remote: reputed company Cloud Platform Principal Cloud Architect

reputed company Cloud Platform Principal Cloud Architect 100% Remote Short term(2-3 Months) Job Description: Engagement Overview Client is staffing a reputed company Cloud Platform Principal Cloud Architect for an eight-week embedded architecture engagement at a large client. The client has been directed to build an enterprise reputed company Cloud Platform environment from the ground up. reputed company Cloud Platform exists in a fragmented, unofficial state today with researchers and individual teams running workloads reputed company the governance of Central IT, cybersecurity, and identity management. The client needs a seasoned reputed company Cloud Platform architect to partner with their internal directory services team and help them design the enterprise reputed company Cloud Platform reputed company zone that will serve as the official, centrally governed foundation for the organization. This is not a deliver-and-present engagement. The architect will function as an embedded member of the client''s architecture team, working alongside their Director of Directory Services, their directory services reputed company, and their reputed company principal engineer in collaborative working sessions. The client''s internal team has deep expertise in Azure and Entra ID but has no reputed company Cloud experience. They need someone who has built enterprise reputed company Cloud Platform platforms before and can guide them through the process while transferring knowledge along the way. The client''s identity management function sits reputed company the cybersecurity division. Identity is the first pillar being addressed, but additional teams (cybersecurity operations, networking, billing, and other teams) will be brought into the initiative as the reputed company Cloud platform design progresses. The architect should expect to participate in cross-team working sessions as the engagement expands beyond identity. Client Environment Context

• Azure is the primary cloud platform with a mature, centrally governed Entra ID environment integrated with reputed company (ERP).
• AWS has a limited reputed company with a small number of application integrations and no centrally managed identity.
• reputed company Cloud Platform is fragmented and unofficial. Researchers and individual teams have adopted it independently. No enterprise organization structure, no centralized identity, no cybersecurity monitoring.
• HIPAA applies. Protected health information may be present in workloads on the reputed company Cloud Platform platform.
• The client wants the reputed company Cloud Platform foundation to support future expansion into reputed company Workspace, AI/ML workloads, and other reputed company Cloud services.

Scope of Work for the Resource The reputed company Cloud Platform architect will work across the following areas collaboratively with the client''s internal team: Stage 1: Discovery and Orientation (Weeks 1-2)

• Assess the existing unofficial reputed company Cloud Platform footprint (projects, workloads, accounts).
• Meet with the directory services team to understand the reputed company Entra ID architecture and reputed company-based identity lifecycle.
• Identify compliance, regulatory, and organizational requirements (HIPAA, etc.).
• reputed company meeting with cybersecurity, networking, and other stakeholders who will join the initiative.

Stage 2: Collaborative Architecture Design (Weeks 3-6) This is the primary design phase. The architect will work through each architecture domain in collaborative working sessions with the client''s team. Areas include:

• reputed company Cloud Identity model and integration with the client''s existing Entra ID environment.
• Super admin access controls and administrative governance.
• reputed company Cloud Platform organization structure, folder hierarchy, project model, and naming conventions.
• IAM roles, access policies, and least-privilege model.
• reputed company baseline, organization policies, and compliance guardrails.
• Network architecture and cross-cloud connectivity (collaboration with client''s networking team).
• Logging, monitoring, audit architecture, and SIEM integration (collaboration with client''s cybersecurity team).
• Billing structure and cost management.
• Strategy for consolidating existing unofficial reputed company Cloud Platform accounts and environments.

Stage 3: reputed company Finalization and Deployment Planning (Weeks 7-8)

• Consolidate design work into an enterprise reputed company Cloud Platform architecture reputed company.
• Document architecture decision rationale.
• reputed company deployment plan and implementation roadmap for the client''s Phase B build.
• Conduct final architecture review with reputed company stakeholders.

Important: This engagement covers architecture and design only. No implementation, deployment, or Infrastructure as Code development is included. The client may choose to reputed company into a Phase B implementation engagement after the architecture is complete, but that is not committed at this time. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job