Cloud Architect

Overview:

Seeking a highly experienced Cloud Architect to design and oversee robust, scalable, and secure

cloud solutions for enterprise environments in oil & gas and other regulated industries (energy,

finance, government).

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect end-to-end cloud solutions (public, private, hybrid) with a focus on reliability, security,
• compliance, and scalability.
• Lead migration and modernization projects of mission-critical applications.
• Define cloud governance, access management, and security best practices.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Enable and operationalize AI/ML workloads—deploying, scaling, and maintaining data pipelines
• and model inferencing on the cloud.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align cloud strategy with organizational goals.

Core Technical & AI/ML Skills:

• Deep knowledge of at least one leading cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with cloud-native AI/ML services (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Google AI
• Platform), enabling secure integration and operationalization of models.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) and AI-powered IaC generation tools.
• Cloud security (IAM, encryption, compliance frameworks), including governance for AI/ML
• pipelines.
• Application modernization (containers, Kubernetes, serverless architectures).
• CI/CD, cloud automation, and AI-powered scripting/plugins (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
• Enterprise networking concepts (VPC, VPN, hybrid connectivity).
• Monitoring, observability, and cost optimization.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Proven leadership and mentoring of cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving in high-stakes, regulated environments.
• Proactive in evaluating and introducing AI tools for productivity and process improvement.e, what success in the position looks like, and how this role fits into the organization overall.