Cloud Infrastructure Architect Jobs
Cloud Infrastructure Architect jobs are open from mid-level engineer to principal and staff across technology, financial services, healthcare, and government contracting, with specializations in multi-cloud strategy, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud security architecture. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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87524BR
Information Systems - Network Services
Job Posting Description
Position Summary/ Department Summary:
The Enterprise/Solution Architect – Infrastructure & Cloud defines, designs, governs, and advances the organization's enterprise infrastructure and cloud architecture. The role provides strategic and technical leadership across AWS, Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud, data centers, networking, telecommunications, compute, storage, virtualization, and supporting enterprise technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
- Develop infrastructure and cloud architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.
- Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures. Identify gaps, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Take part in architecture governance and technology investment decisions, using TOGAF-aligned practices.
- Design secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/on-premises environments.
- Define landing zones, connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and workload placement.
- Guide cloud migration, modernization, and automation. Support CCoE guardrails and FinOps practices.
- Architect WAN/LAN, SD-WAN, telecommunications, data center, compute, storage, and virtualization environments.
- Set standards for availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Evaluate products and designs for security, lifecycle risk, and total cost of ownership.
- Lead architecture assessments and solution designs for complex infrastructure and cloud initiatives.
- Produce diagrams, design documents, decision records, and implementation roadmaps.
- Review vendor proposals against enterprise standards. Provide guidance from planning through operational handoff.
- Evaluate infrastructure as code, automation, AI-enabling infrastructure, and emerging platforms.
- Recommend consolidation, cost optimization, and technical debt reduction.
- Support a lean technology intake process that assesses architectural impact and prioritizes demand.
- Use CMDB data to understand assets, dependencies, and change impacts, and promote data quality.
- Manage architecture backlogs and decisions in Jira, using sound project management practices.
- Partner with leaders and the PMO on capacity planning, forecasting, and sequencing of work.
- Act as a trusted advisor to IT leadership, project teams, and business stakeholders.
- Work with Cloud, Network, Telecom, Data Center, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Explain technical tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical audiences and mentor technical staff.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or 10 years of experience as an Enterprise/Solution Architect required.
- Preferred area of study: Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud, or related technical disciplines
- 5+ years in enterprise, solution, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles
- Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure and AWS or Azure or GCP hybrid-cloud solutions
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps
- Experience in large, complex, highly available or regulated organizations; healthcare, academic medical center, or research preferred
- Experience using CMDB platforms (such as ServiceNow CMDB) to analyze configuration items, service dependencies, and infrastructure changes
- Experience with Jira and participation in lean intake, demand management, or project delivery processes
Licensure/ Certifications:
- TOGAF certification required
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert; relevant infrastructure, networking, or cybersecurity certifications preferred
Status
Full-Time
Regular, Temporary, Per Diem
Regular
Standard Hours per Week
40
Pay Range
$149073.60-$238524.00 Annual
Office/Site Location
Boston
Job Posting Category
Information Technology
Remote Eligibility
Full-Time Remote
Enterprise/Solution Architect – Infrastructure & Cloud | Boston Childrens Hospital
87524BR
Information Systems - Network Services
Job Posting Description
Position Summary/ Department Summary:
The Enterprise/Solution Architect – Infrastructure & Cloud defines, designs, governs, and advances the organization's enterprise infrastructure and cloud architecture. The role provides strategic and technical leadership across AWS, Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud, data centers, networking, telecommunications, compute, storage, virtualization, and supporting enterprise technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
- Develop infrastructure and cloud architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.
- Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures. Identify gaps, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Take part in architecture governance and technology investment decisions, using TOGAF-aligned practices.
- Design secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/on-premises environments.
- Define landing zones, connectivity, identity integration, security controls, and workload placement.
- Guide cloud migration, modernization, and automation. Support CCoE guardrails and FinOps practices.
- Architect WAN/LAN, SD-WAN, telecommunications, data center, compute, storage, and virtualization environments.
- Set standards for availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Evaluate products and designs for security, lifecycle risk, and total cost of ownership.
- Lead architecture assessments and solution designs for complex infrastructure and cloud initiatives.
- Produce diagrams, design documents, decision records, and implementation roadmaps.
- Review vendor proposals against enterprise standards. Provide guidance from planning through operational handoff.
- Evaluate infrastructure as code, automation, AI-enabling infrastructure, and emerging platforms.
- Recommend consolidation, cost optimization, and technical debt reduction.
- Support a lean technology intake process that assesses architectural impact and prioritizes demand.
- Use CMDB data to understand assets, dependencies, and change impacts, and promote data quality.
- Manage architecture backlogs and decisions in Jira, using sound project management practices.
- Partner with leaders and the PMO on capacity planning, forecasting, and sequencing of work.
- Act as a trusted advisor to IT leadership, project teams, and business stakeholders.
- Work with Cloud, Network, Telecom, Data Center, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Explain technical tradeoffs to both technical and nontechnical audiences and mentor technical staff.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or 10 years of experience as an Enterprise/Solution Architect required.
- Preferred area of study: Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud, or related technical disciplines
- 5+ years in enterprise, solution, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles
- Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure and AWS or Azure or GCP hybrid-cloud solutions
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps
- Experience in large, complex, highly available or regulated organizations; healthcare, academic medical center, or research preferred
- Experience using CMDB platforms (such as ServiceNow CMDB) to analyze configuration items, service dependencies, and infrastructure changes
- Experience with Jira and participation in lean intake, demand management, or project delivery processes
Licensure/ Certifications:
- TOGAF certification required
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert; relevant infrastructure, networking, or cybersecurity certifications preferred
Status
Full-Time
Regular, Temporary, Per Diem
Regular
Standard Hours per Week
40
Pay Range
$149073.60-$238524.00 Annual
Office/Site Location
Boston
Job Posting Category
Information Technology
Remote Eligibility
Full-Time Remote
Enterprise/Solution Architect – Infrastructure & Cloud | Boston Childrens Hospital
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cloud infrastructure architect jobs.
- Five or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CloudFormation
- Active certification from AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure at the professional or solutions architect level
- Experience architecting multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments with security and compliance controls
- Strong knowledge of networking concepts including VPCs, load balancing, DNS, and zero-trust architecture
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related engineering discipline
Tips for Your Cloud Infrastructure Architect Job Search
Quantify your infrastructure at scale
Hiring managers want to see the size of what you built, not just that you built it. List the number of workloads migrated, the reduction in provisioning time, or the cost savings your architecture delivered. Vague claims get skipped.
Target certifications that match the job
AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, and Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert are frequently listed as requirements, not just nice-to-haves. Filter openings by the cloud provider your credentials cover so you're not underselling a specialization.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists cloud infrastructure architect openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Align your resume to the job's cloud stack
A role at a GCP-first company reads your Terraform and Kubernetes experience differently than one running on-prem hybrid. Reorder your skills section so the tools the employer listed appear first. Don't bury the platform they care about under ones they don't use.
Prepare for whiteboard architecture sessions
Most cloud infrastructure architect interviews include a live design exercise where you're asked to architect a system under constraints. Practice walking through your decisions out loud, explaining trade-offs between latency, cost, and resilience rather than jumping straight to a final diagram.
Negotiate the technical scope, not just the title
Before accepting an offer, ask which decisions the role owns versus which go through a platform team or committee. Greenfield work, legacy migration, and hybrid support all carry different day-to-day realities, and knowing the scope upfront helps you evaluate whether the role fits your goals.
Cloud Infrastructure Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most cloud infrastructure architects?
Booz Allen Hamilton, Google, and Infosys are hiring the most cloud infrastructure architects right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, Georgia, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially high at enterprises undergoing large-scale cloud migration or modernizing legacy data center infrastructure.
How many cloud infrastructure architect jobs are remote?
About 85% of cloud infrastructure architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-off-keyboard nature of much of the work. Architecture review, infrastructure design, and documentation-heavy phases of the role tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles tied to on-prem migration or government facilities more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a cloud infrastructure architect?
Start by building deep proficiency on at least one major cloud platform through hands-on work and professional certification. Progress through roles such as cloud engineer or DevOps engineer to gain production infrastructure experience. Develop skills in infrastructure-as-code, cloud networking, and security architecture. Build a portfolio of designs you've owned, then pursue architect-level roles once you can speak to system trade-offs, not just implementation.
Can you get a cloud infrastructure architect job without much experience?
Getting hired directly into an architect title without experience is rare, but breaking in is realistic through adjacent paths. Cloud engineer, platform engineer, and site reliability engineer roles build the infrastructure depth that architects are hired for. Earning a professional-level cloud certification and contributing to open-source infrastructure projects can close gaps when formal experience is limited.
What does the cloud infrastructure architect interview process look like?
Most processes include a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering cloud fundamentals and past project depth, and a system design or architecture exercise where you design infrastructure live under time and cost constraints. Final rounds often include a panel with engineering leads and sometimes a security or platform team stakeholder who evaluates how your decisions integrate with existing systems.
Where can I find and apply to cloud infrastructure architect jobs?
You can find and apply to cloud infrastructure architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your cloud platform experience, seniority level, and preferred work arrangement, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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