Cloud Architect

The DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) is hiring a hands-on Azure Cloud Architect to lead its multi-cloud build-out (Azure primary, AWS Commercial and GovCloud), 100% onsite in Washington DC: design secure landing zones and governance, deliver Terraform infrastructure as code with Azure DevOps CI/CD, lead VMware-to-Azure migrations, and oversee Azure Virtual Desktop.What you’ll doLead the continued build-out of OCTO’s multi-cloud environment (Azure primary, AWS Commercial and GovCloud) as technical lead and cloud architecture SMEDesign secure, well-governed environments for OCTO and partner agencies, translating agency requirements into clear solution designs with options, costs, and tradeoffsDesign, mature, and own the Azure landing zone (management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, security baselines with Microsoft Defender for Cloud)Deliver infrastructure as code with Terraform (reusable modules, remote state) and infrastructure CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOpsPlan and execute migrations of on-premises virtualized workloads (VMware or similar) to Azure, from discovery and dependency mapping through migration wavesProvide architectural oversight of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), including the Terraform/Nerdio boundary; design hybrid connectivity and Entra ID identity integrationWhat you needBachelor’s degree in IT or related field (or equivalent); Senior-level position8 plus years in infrastructure engineering, with 5 plus years designing and building in Microsoft AzureDemonstrated enterprise Azure landing zone design (management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, hub-and-spoke networking)5 plus years hands-on Terraform in production (reusable modules, remote state); infrastructure CI/CD in Azure DevOps or GitHub ActionsStrong Microsoft Entra ID, conditional access, and identity governance; migration of on-premises VMware workloads to AzureWorking knowledge of AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to operate and troubleshoot existing workloads; experience leading/mentoring engineers