Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Concord Servicing
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Scottsdale • Arizona • United States
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About the role
- Own cloud infrastructure architecture with AWS as the primary platform, ensuring alignment with business goals, security requirements, and SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance obligations
- Lead the architectural assessment of all acquired Azure environments — evaluating security posture, network topology, identity configuration, and workload dependencies
- Develop and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and technology roadmaps that account for our hybrid AWS/Azure environment
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and make recommendations on adoption, retirement, or consolidation of platforms and services
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical governance for infrastructure projects across the organization
- Conduct deep-dive assessments of acquired Azure environments, producing comprehensive documentation covering network architecture, security controls, identity and access configurations, workload inventories, and data flows
- Identify and drive remediation of security gaps and compliance deficiencies across acquired Azure environments in partnership with the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and InfoSec team
- Develop detailed migration plans for transitioning data and workloads from acquired Azure environments into LINK, our AWS-hosted core line-of-business application
- Produce and maintain infrastructure documentation packages for the Product team, providing the architectural context needed to plan and execute LINK data migration workstreams
- Define and track progress against Azure rationalization milestones, keeping stakeholders informed on scope, risk, and timeline
- Partner with the VP of Infrastructure to author, maintain, and continuously improve infrastructure procedures, runbooks, and operational standards
- Establish and enforce cloud governance frameworks including tagging standards, cost management practices, IAM policies, and network design principles
- Define and document disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response procedures for cloud infrastructure
- Create structured work and project pipelines for T1 Helpdesk, T2 Systems Administration, and T3 DevOps teams by translating architectural decisions into actionable implementation tasks
- Provide technical guidance and direction to the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer responsible for Azure day-to-day operations and security remediation
- Collaborate with DevOps to drive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) adoption and CI/CD pipeline improvements on AWS
- Partner with the InfoSec team on conditional access, identity governance, and security posture across cloud environments
- Work with the Product team as the infrastructure subject matter expert for LINK migration planning, ensuring data and workload dependencies are clearly understood before migration execution begins
- Lead cost optimization initiatives across AWS and Azure environments, including reserved instance planning, right-sizing, and architectural efficiency improvements
- Oversee cloud networking design, including VPCs, VNets, transit gateways, peering, DNS, and hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect / ExpressRoute)
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 5 years focused on cloud architecture
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS as a primary platform (compute, networking, storage, identity, security) and strong working proficiency with Microsoft Azure, including networking, security, identity, and infrastructure assessment
- Demonstrated experience designing and documenting infrastructure for regulated financial services environments (banking, insurance, fintech, or similar)
- Strong experience with SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance in a cloud environment
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals across both platforms: VPCs/VNets, BGP, DNS, load balancing, firewall design, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, and hybrid cloud connectivity
- Proven ability to produce high-quality architectural documentation suitable for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders such as Product and business leadership
- Experience developing migration plans for complex, multi-workload cloud environments
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Wellness Resources
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSAzurecloud architectureinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCloudFormationnetworking fundamentalssecurity compliancedisaster recoverymigration planning
Soft Skills
communicationcross-functional collaborationtechnical governanceleadershipdocumentationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingproject managementguidanceremediation
Certifications
SOC 2PCI-DSS